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 — Washington has no business interfering in internal matters of other countries, National Conference (NC) Lok Sabha MP Ruhullah Mehdi said Saturday, questioning Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s meeting with the US envoy despite violence in Palestine and Iran perpetrated by the United States and its ally Israel. “If I were to receive legitimacy from […]
PULWAMA — The second edition of the Royal Premier League Pulwama commenced in this south Kashmir district on Wednesday evening, marking a striking display of the region’s changing social landscape. In an area once associated with the presence of terror groups, the cricket tournament has brought a very different energy to the forefront-one defined by […]
MUMBAI — The Mumbai Police earlier this week registered an FIR against three persons including Additional Director General (ADG) rank Maharashtra police officer Deven Bharti, ACP Deepak Phatangare for not booking a case against a woman who is alleged to have used fake documents to prove she was an Indian citizen, the Indian Express reported. […]
SRINAGAR — The government has repatriated 63 employees of the School Education Department from the Union Territory (UT) of Ladakh to Jammu and Kashmir. Besides, the General Administration Department (GAD) in an order issued on Thursday has said that it has replaced the repatriated officers after nearly four years posted in the union territory of […]
SRINAGAR — Noted preacher Haji Tanveer Ahmad Qureshi was killed even as his three colleagues were injured in a tragic accident along Srinagar-Jammu highway on intervening Saturday and Sunday night. A police official told that a car – Alto K10 – bearing registration number JK15 0193 skidded off the road and hit a (road) divider […]
RAJOURI — A saw mill located near Sunderbani main town was damaged in a massive blaze that broke out in the intervening night of Thursday-Friday in the locality. Officials told the that fire broke out in the intervening night of Thursday and Friday in which a saw mill caught fire. As soon as the locals […]
KULGAM — The residents of Kilam village in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district Friday staged a protest against the Power Development Department (PDD) for failing to repair two electric transformers of the village despite the passage of over three weeks. The protesters, mostly women assembled at Mirbazar-Phaloo road at Kilam and chanted slogans against the Power […]
POONCH — Mughal road, connecting Shopian and Poonch-Rajouri districts, on Friday reopened for traffic after remaining closed since December 5. DTI Mughal road, Qasim Ahmed told GNS the road reopened for all types of traffic. The thoroughfare was closed on Sunday in view of slippery road conditions amid heavy snowfall. — (GNS)
SRINAGAR — Intense cold continued in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh on Friday as Srinagar had coldest night of the season with mercury plummeting to minus 2.6°C. A meteorological department official here told GNS that the minimum temperature in Srinagar, the summer capital of J&K, was below two degrees than the normal for this time […]
SRINAGAR — An unknown organization is reportedly active exacting money from drivers in the name of ‘Save the Girl Children’ slogan. The said organization is using the name of Traffic Police Department. A couple of days back a lone protester at Srinagar’s Press Enclave staged a protest stating that an unknown organization whose credentials seems […]
CHENNAI — Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika Rawat and 11 others, who were on board IAF’s Mi-17V5 helicopter, died in the crash on Wednesday near Tamil Nadu’s Connoor. Meanwhile, an eyewitness at the crash site has claimed that he saw CDS Bipin Rawat alive moments after the wreckage was […]
SRINAGAR — In district hospital Ganderbal at least 200 posts are lying vacant in the hospital, which includes doctors, Para-medics, technical and working staff. The district hospital has 28 vacant posts of doctors of various fields. Additionally, 20 posts of medical officers are also unfilled. The Public Information Officer (PIO) of the concerned hospital in […]
