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 — J&K government directive allowing conditional reopening of schools for Class 10 and 12 students has evoked a lukewarm response among the students and their families in the Valley. This has found a reflection in the low turnout in the school campuses across Kashmir. On September 5, which is observed as the Teacher’s Day, […]
SRINAGAR — Police in Kashmir raided the homes of four journalists on Wednesday, triggering concerns of a further crackdown on press freedom in the region. After the raids in Srinagar, the region’s main city, the four journalists were summoned to a local police station where they were briefly questioned but detained the whole day. Police […]
MATHURA (UP) — Union Minister Ramdas Athawale on Wednesday said Muslims should be given political representation not on religious grounds but for being a minority community. Athawale had arrived here to inaugurate the Sangeet Shiromani Swami Haridas Aavirbhav Mahotsav, organised at Sri Radhaprasad Dham located on the Parikrama Marg of Vrindavan. Athawale told reporters that […]
JAMMU — Authorities on Wednesday suspended two officials in Jammu and Kashmir”s Samba district for being absent from duty. Samba Deputy Commissioner Anuradha Gupta through an order suspended a senior stenographer and an assistant revenue attorney of the DC office, said officials. They face the action for unauthorised absence and dereliction of duty, they said. […]
BANDIPORA — Police on Wednesday claimed to have arrested a woman Over Ground Worker in Aloosa area of North Kashmir’s Bandipora district. A senior Police officer told that based on specific information today a naka was established at Aloosa Bandipora regarding movement of a woman OGW. On being intercepted one grenade and huge numbers of […]
SRINAGAR — The subscribers of private telecommunication companies like Jio and Airtel have complained about erratic calling and internet services in several villages of Tral sub division of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Locals from Tral areas that include Bargam, Nagpathri and its adjacent villages of Tral said that the weak signal is giving a tough […]
SRINAGAR — The government on Tuesday appointed additional chief secretary Atal Dulloo as the enquiry officer into the change in scope of construction work of flats from 1 BHK to 2 BHK for transit accommodation of Kashmiri migrants. According to an order issued by Commissioner Secretary to the Government Manoj Kumar Dwivedi, Dulloo, who is […]
CHENNAI — Tamil Nadu on Wednesday joined a select few States in the country to officially oppose the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) with its Legislative Assembly adopting a resolution urging the Union Government to repeal it. “This August House considers that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, passed by the Parliament in the year 2019 is […]
SRINAGAR — PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti today said that the Taliban can set an example in front of the world if they follow what Sharia or Quran Sharif really says. Talking to the reporters at Akhran village in Kulgam, Mufti said that if the Taliban continued to do what they did before, then it may […]
SRINAGAR — The government of Jammu and Kashmir should ease the process of issuing income certificates to the students of Kashmir valley. Reports said that the process of issuing income certificates is too lengthy and time consuming and takes a lot of time to students. This lengthy process is creating lot of problem to the […]
