BENGALURU — Oil prices rose 2% on Tuesday to their highest in four weeks, as the U.S. reimposed its naval blockade of Iran while the two countries stepped up attacks in the Strait of Hormuz, heightening uncertainty about energy flows. Brent crude futures climbed $1.68, or 2%, to $84.98 per barrel by 0051 GMT, while […]
SRINAGAR — Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday said his government is committed to restoring the statehood and other constitutional guarantees to Jammu and Kashmir, which were revoked in August 2019. He also spoke on the protests in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) to say that his party’s forebears were right in fighting off the […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir government on Friday said that the PGTI golf tournament, J&K Open, that concluded on Friday, will be an annual event from here on and the effort is to make the union territory the golfing capital of the country. Addressing the concluding ceremony of the Professional Golf Tour of India […]
SRINAGAR — Former minister and president of Apni Party, Syed Altaf Bukhari Wednesday said that the Delimitation Commission has not done justice with the people of Jammu and Kashmir and that the draft proposed by the panel is aimed to disempower the people. Addressing a news conference on the occasion of the party’s foundation day, […]
Colonel Raman Ji distributed prizes among Girl students SRINAGAR — Indian Army’s 2 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) on Tuesday celebrated the International Women’s Day at Kunzer village in Tangmarg area of Baramulla district in North Kashmir. On the occassion of International Women’s Day, with a theme of ‘Gender Equality Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow’, Kunzer Army […]
KUPWARA — Jammu and Kashmir police Tuesday said that it has resolved the murder case of 8-year-old kid whose body was found today in the woods of Kupwara after almost three weeks and the two main accused have been arested. “Since February 15, we had been probing all angles. We searched wetlands, woods and mainholes […]
KULGAM — Police have arrested four persons after Rs 40000 were withdrawn with deception from the account of an elderly through ATM in the south Kashmir last month, officials said on Tuesday. “On 14 February last month, police station Kulgam received a written complaint from one person stating therein that his old aged father had […]
BANDIPORA — Two army men were on Wednesday injured after a vehicle they were traveling in met with an accident at Aragam village of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district. Officials said that an army vehicle carrying Army personnel skidded off the road and crashed into a field at Aragam village of the district. They said that […]
SRINAGAR — General officer Commanding (GoC) of Srinagar based army’s 15 corps lieutenant general D P Pandey Tuesday said that young men are being propagated to lob grenades at the busy places as militants have failed to carry out big strikes on security forces. He also said that women of Kashmir have started coming on […]
SRINAGAR — The residents of Ringward Keller area Tuesday staged a protest over injecting an expired glucose injection to a patient at SDH Keller in Shopian district on Monday. Local sources told news agency Kashmir Dot Com that inhabitants of village Ringwad Kellar held a protest and alleged that the doctors of Sub district hospital […]
KUPWARA — Three weeks after the 8-year-old boy went missing from his house at Awoora village of this north Kashmir, his body was recovered from Gujar Pati forest area in the vicinity on Tuesday, officials said. As per the family, Talib Hussain son of Manzoor Ahmad Khan had disappeared moments after he left home on […]
SRINAGAR — Rain lashed the plains while light snowfall occurred in the higher reaches of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh on Tuesday as the MeT department forecast generally cloudy weather with rain and snow at isolated places during the next 24 hours. “Weather is likely to remain generally cloudy with rain, snow at isolated places […]
NEW DELHI — India reported 3,993 daily Covid cases, the lowest spike in the last 662 days and a total of 108 deaths in a span of 24 hours, the Union health ministry said on Tuesday morning. With the addition of new deaths, the toll has reached 5,15,210 in the country. India reported 4,362 fresh […]
