NEW YORK — The US grounded all flights for several hours Friday, sparking travel chaos across the vast country, after what government officials said was a major communications outage caused by decades old technology. The nationwide stop left hundreds of thousands of passengers in limbo, with some pulled off planes moments before departure by airline […]
JAMMU — In a major outreach to disgruntled party lawmakers, National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah has accepted a proposal to constitute informal advisory groups of MLAs for each minister in the Omar Abdullah-led government in Jammu and Kashmir, party sources said. The NC chief wrote to all MLAs days after a meeting was held […]
NEW DELHI — India batter Vaibhav Sooryavanshi became the youngest captain in men’s Twenty20 history at 15 years and 232 days after leading Bihar in India’s domestic T20 competition, the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, on Saturday. The teenager surpassed Croatia’s Zach Vukusic, who previously held the record after captaining his national side at 17 years […]
SRINAGAR — Three pistol-borne gunmen looted over Rs 1.59 lakhs from a petrol pump in Shopian district of south Kashmir while burglars broke open donation box at venerated shrine of Hazrat Sheikh Syed Abdul Qadir Jeelani in Khanyar area of Srinagar and decamped with unknown amount of cash last night, officials said on Thursday. A […]
NEW DELHI — India logged 67,084 new coronavirus infections, taking the country’s total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,24,78,060, while the active cases declined to 7,90,789, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday. The death toll climbed to 5,06,520 with 1,241 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The active […]
SRINAGAR — Night temperatures dropped below freezing point in Kashmir with Gulmarg recording a low of minus 10.4°C on Thursday, officials said. A meteorological department official here told GNS Srinagar, the summer capital of the J&K, recorded a low of minus 0.1°C against last night’s 0.6°C, he said. Qazigund, the gateway town of Kashmir, witnessed […]
LUCKNOW — The Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind (JuH) has announced a sum of Rs 5 lakh for the Karnataka student wearing a burqa, who gained limelight earlier this week for holding her ground when faced with hundreds of protesting students. The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) also lashed out at the Karnataka government’s ban on […]
NEW DELHI — Three days after Chinese President Xi Jinping and Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan opposed New Delhi’s “unilateral action” on Jammu and Kashmir, India rejected reference to its “integral and inalienable parts” in the joint statement issued after the meeting between the leaders of the two neighbouring nations. “We have always rejected such […]
NEW DELHI — With the aim to rehabilitate the Kashmiri migrants back into the valley, the government has created 3,000 state government jobs under the Prime Minister’s Development Package-2015 (PMDP-2015). According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, an outlay of Rs 1,080 crores has been by the Centre for this purpose. In a written reply […]
NEW DELHI — As many as 610 Kashmiri Pandits were given back their properties left behind in Jammu and Kashmir following eruption of militancy there in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai also said in the Rajya Sabha that 3,000 state government jobs were created for Kashmiri […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir government likely to ban private practice of doctors in the Medical Colleges of UT, Officials privy to the development revealed Wednesday. The development comes close on the heels of recommendations of medical experts constituted on the directions of the High Court that had strongly advocated a blanket ban on private […]
SRINAGAR — Cyber Police Kashmir Zone, Srinagar on Wednesday claimed to have recovered missing smartphones worth lakhs of rupees which were handed over to the rightful owners. As per a statement, Cyber Police Kashmir with constant efforts of its dedicated technical teams traced out 73 missing/lost smartphones of various makes and models worth lakhs of […]
SRINAGAR — In the recently announced annual regular results of 12th standard, Kashmir division has recorded the worst results after a gap of two years. This year Kashmir division witnessed an overall pass percentage of 74.92 percent. In the year 2008, the pass percentage of 12th standard was 53.50 percent in which 43,183 students appeared […]
