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 […]
SRINAGAR — Chief of Army Staff General MM Naravane, on a two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir Union territory, reviewed the security situation and operational preparedness. The visit of the Army Chief comes in the backdrop of the Poonch gunfight that has entered in the ninth day. Sources told news agency KINS that the Chief […]
SRINAGAR — Night temperature fell across Kashmir Valley with the world famous skiing resort of Gulmarg recording below normal, officials said on Tuesday. Srinagar, witnessing rainfall of 3.6mm in 24 hours till 0830 hours, recorded minimum temperature of 7.7°C against 11.0°C on previous night, an official of the local MeT office here told GNS. Qazigund […]
SHEIKH NADEEM ANANTNAG — DDC Block Achabal Sameena Hussain greeted people on the eve of Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi (SAW). In her message on the occasion, Sameena said the Prophet (SAW) taught lessons of compassion, mercy, tolerance and brotherhood to humanity-all of which need to be vigorously inculcated in today’s strife infested world. She added that amongst all […]
JAMMU — IkkJutt Jammu has reiterated that separate Jammu state is the only panacea available to meet the national requirement, empower people of the province to manage their own affairs, defeat enemies working day and night to change Jammu’s demography and create Kashmir-like situation in this strategic region. “The otherwise historic reforms of August 5, […]
PATNA — Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday condemned the targeted killing of Bihari migrant workers in Jammu and Kashmir, saying the incidents have created an “environment of fear”. Kumar said he has spoken to Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and senior Bihar officials are in touch with their counterparts in the […]
JAMMU — Two Rohingya Muslims were detained for questioning after they were found moving in a suspicious manner near an Army camp in the outskirts of Jammu, officials said on Monday. Abdul Amin (43) and Abdul Salam (34), putting up in Teli Basti area of Bari Brahmana, were picked up outside the Army installation at […]
SRINAGAR — In the wake of fresh killings of non-locals in Kashmir, hundreds of non-J&K residents who were working in the Valley, Monday decided to flee on the pretext that their families were worried about them. Those who left Kashmir out of fear, however, recalled the hospitality Kashmiri people showed to them during their stay […]
SRINAGAR — A limited number of devotees will be allowed on Monday to participate in the night-long prayers at Hazratbal shrine on the eve of Eid-e-Milad-un Nabi, the birth anniversary of the holy Prophet(peace and blessings be upon him). News agency KNO quoted CEO Wakf Board, Mufti Farid-ud-din saying that the decision was taken in […]
SRINAGAR — Twenty two Public safety Act (PSA) detainees from Kashmir Valley were shifted to high-security Agra jail, in Uttar Pradesh on Monday, official sources said. Official sources told that Twenty two detainees have been shifted outside Jammu and Kashmir on Monday by the government of Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory by order no PB-V/776 […]
LEH — More than a year after the bifurcation of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, the youth of Ladakh continue to protest against the authorities in the region for failing to hold any recruitment process. The unemployed youth and the support gained by them from different organizations blamed the […]
