SINGAPORE — Oil prices rose on Monday following days of tit-for-tat strikes by the U.S. and Iran that underscored the fragility of their interim peace deal and again slowed energy shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. Brent crude futures climbed 58 cents, or 0.8%, to $72.57 a barrel at 0207 GMT while U.S. West Texas […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir Congress president Tariq Hameed Karra on Saturday wrote to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, demanding a thorough probe over the alleged assault on party MLA Nizam-ud-din Bhat by some National Conference workers. He called for a thorough investigation into the incident and expressed hope that the chief minister would intervene promptly […]
LONDON — England captain Ben Stokes made the dramatic decision Sunday to announce his imminent retirement from international cricket midway through the deciding third test against New Zealand. “This is my last two days as your captain and my last two days representing England,” Stokes told his England teammates inside the dressing room at the […]
SRINAGAR — Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said repeatedly putting him under house arrest on Fridays was an infringement on his personal freedom and closing down the Jama Masjid hurts the sentiments of the people of the Valley. To do so in the name of maintaining law and order is “ridiculous”, especially when the […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah will present his maiden budget on March 7, officials said, as he continued his pre-budget consultations engaging with public representatives from Poonch and Rajouri districts here on Friday. According to a provisional calendar issued by the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly secretariat, the nearly month-long session will […]
JAMMU — An army personnel was injured by a gunfire along the Line of Control (LoC) in Akhnoor sector near here on Friday, security officials said. The soldier was manning a forward post in Battal area when he received a bullet apparently from across the border, the officials said. They said that the injured was […]
JAMMU — Highlighting his government’s commitment to improving healthcare accessibility across Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday emphasized the need to improve handling of emergency cases and capacity at various Government Medical Colleges to ease the burden on major hospitals. Abdullah also stressed the importance of ensuring that doctors serve beyond urban […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — In a commendable breakthrough, Jammu and Kashmir Police has successfully apprehended an accused involved in an ATM card swapping fraud in Srinagar. Police Post Bagyas received a written complaint from a lady namely Shaheena W/o of Zahoor Ah Najar R/o Kupwara, stating therein that she along with her daughter, had visited Dental […]
HALDWANI — Union Home Minister Amit Shah Friday paid homage to the martyrs of the Pulwama terror attack and praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for giving a befitting reply through airstrikes in Pakistan. Forty jawans were killed when a Jaish-e-Mohammad suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden car into a CRPF convoy at Lethpora-Pulwama on the Jammu-Srinagar […]
SRINAGAR — The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) on Friday paid tributes to the 40 jawans who were killed in the Pulwama attack on Jammu-Srinagar national highway on the sixth anniversary of the terror attack. “A solemn ceremony organised at Lethpora-Pulwama to pay homage and respect to the martyrs of CRPF who attained martyrdom in […]
JAMMU — Inspector General of BSF, Jammu frontier, Shashank Anand called on Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha here on Friday and discussed various issues of border security with him, a spokesperson said. A Haryana cadre IPS officer, Anand took over as the new IG of BSF on February 7, replacing D K Boora who had held […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Police in Srinagar has solved a theft case by arresting accused person involved in the commission of crime and recovered stolen cash from his possession. Police Station Soura received a written complaint from one person namely Ali Mohammad Mir R/o Nowshera, stating therein that an unknown thief barged into his cloth shop […]
RAJOURI — Jammu and Kashmir police on Friday seized six kgs of narcotics, believed to be high-grade heroin worth over Rs 30 crore in the international market, from a village near the Line of Control in Rajouri district, officials said. The recovery from the forward village in Nowshera sector was made on the disclosure of […]
