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 […]
NEW DELHI — India’s nationwide Covid-19 vaccination coverage on Thursday reached 97 crores, informed the ministry of health and family welfare. Meanwhile, India reported 18,987 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, said Union health ministry on Thursday. With 19,808 recoveries in the last 24 hours, the cumulative recoveries climbed to 3,33,62,709. Currently, India […]
SRINAGAR — A 75-year-old man was injured after he was attacked by a mentally unsound person with an axe in Bagh locality of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Thursday evening. Official sources told that a man identified as Ali Mohammad Malik (75) a resident of Bagh was calling for a prayer for Magrib prayers at […]
SRINAGAR — Two journalists in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, who have been detained by the Jammu and Kashmir police in the last week for “questioning”, have been shifted to district jail today. As per the family members, Salman Shah, 30, editor of an online weekly magazine – Kashmir First and 21-year-old Suhail Dar, a freelance journalist, both the […]
ANANTNAG — To eradicate drug menace from the society. Army’s 19 Rashtriya Rifles Sikhli launches Drug De addiction campaign which was started from 10th of October and concludes 14th of October in Dooru auditorium. These seminars organised by the Indian Army’s 19 Rashtriya Rifles (SIKHLI) as part of its efforts to eradicate the drug menace […]
KABUL — A bomb ripped through a vehicle carrying a Taliban police chief in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing him and wounding 11 others, officials said. The blast happened in Asadabad, the capital of Kunar province, targeting the Taliban police chief for Shigal district, said an official from the group. “The police chief has died […]
SRINAGAR — Harpreet Kaur, the wife of the deceased Sikh armed forces personnel Gajjan Singh has appealed to the Government saying, “I would like to appeal to the government that if they (Kashmiris) want to get Kashmir separated from India, fulfil their aspiration,” The Sikh Narrative reported. Newly married grieving wife of Sikh armed forces […]
SRINAGAR — A Kashmiri Pandit leader who has been fighting for rights of Pandits in the Valley says he is facing threat for the first time in last 30 years, NDTV has reported. The report has added that Sanjay Tickoo has been kept in a security enclosure for the last five days. “I was told […]
SRINAGAR — After a delay amid tension, Kashmiri Pandits on Wednesday performed Ramnavmi puja at Durga Nath temple in Sonwar area of Srinagar. Manager of the temple, Makhan Lal Koul said that due to the untoward situation in the city for the past two weeks the administration didn’t allow the puja earlier. “The puja was […]
SRINAGAR — Pankaj Paswan from Bihar has been working in Kashmir for 27 years and never faced any problems. Despite witnessing the volatile phase of 2016, he returned to the Valley. Naturally, he was shocked when his close relative Virender, a gol gappa seller in Srinagar, was shot dead by militants 10 days ago. “On […]
SRINAGAR — Senior Journalist Majid Hyderi said that he was detained and harassed by Jammu and Kashmir Police in Srinagar on Wednesday. Majid Hyderi in a Facebook post wrote, “I was summoned, questioned, detained and harassed by Jammu and Kashmir Police for no fault of mine on Oct 13, 2021 at CARGO, the detention center […]
