ISLAMABAD — Senior U.S. and Iranian leaders were in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Saturday for negotiations to end their six-week-old war, although Tehran threw the talks into doubt by saying they could not begin without commitments on Lebanon and sanctions. The U.S. delegation, led by Vice President JD Vance and including President Donald Trump’s […]
NEW DELHI — In a massive jolt to the Aam Aadmi Party on Friday, seven of its Rajya Sabha MPs, including Raghav Chadha, Sandeep Pathak and Ashok Mittal, quit the party. Addressing a press conference, Chadha, flanked by Pathak and Mittal, said that two-thirds of the Aam Aadmi Party’s Rajya Sabha MPs have quit the […]
DHAKA — Former Bangladesh captain Tamim Iqbal became the youngest head of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Tuesday, after the National Sports Council dissolved the BCB’s board of directors following an investigation into elections held in October. A committee found irregularities in the BCB’s election process, the NSC’s sports director Mohammed Aminul Ahesan told […]
POONCH — Six people stranded amid heavy snowfall on the Mughal Road in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir were rescued by police, officials said on Saturday. On Friday night, two vehicles going from Shopian to Surankote got stuck in the snow at Chattapani, leaving their occupants stranded in challenging weather conditions, police said. They […]
BANIHAL — A female tourist was killed after a boulder rolled down a hilltop and struck a mini bus on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district, officials said on Saturday. The incident occurred in the landslide-prone Mehar area, where a rock hit the window of the mini bus, causing severe head […]
BANIHAL — Train services on the Banihal-Baramulla section were suspended on Saturday due to heavy snow accumulation on the track, railway officials said. Efforts to clear the track are underway. Due to heavy snow accumulation on the track and continuous snowfall, train services on the Banihal-Baramulla section will remain suspended up to 1 pm on […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Friday directed officials to facilitate people stranded on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway due to snowfall. Several vehicles were stranded on the highway — the only all-weather road link between the valley and the rest of the country — due to the snowfall. “Just spoke to DC […]
JAMMU (KIMS) — In a continued stringent enforcement drive targeting overloading, overcharging, and other major violations under the Motor Vehicles Act and Central Motor Vehicle Rules, the Motor Vehicles Department conducted a special enforcement drive in Jammu district. The operation was carried out under direct supervision of Regional Transport Officer Jammu Pankaj Bhagotra in compliance […]
SRINAGAR — Senior Congress leader and Vice-President of Jammu & Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC), Surinder Singh Channi, has called for the immediate resumption of road connectivity across Sub-district Tral, particularly in the upper regions such as Aripal block and Machama belt, which have been severely affected by the recent moderate to heavy snowfall. In […]
ANANTNAG (KIMS) — At least nine passengers who were stranded at Sinthan Top in Anantnag district of South Kashmir due to heavy snowfall were successfully rescued, police said on Friday. The incident occurred when a vehicle (Tavera) traveling from Kishtwar to Daksum skidded into a water drain at Sinthan Top, leaving its occupants stranded in […]
SRINAGAR — Several parts of Kashmir received fresh snowfall, including the season’s first in many areas, on Friday, with a slight increase in the minimum temperatures at most places in the valley, officials said. A western disturbance hit Jammu and Kashmir on Friday, bringing light snowfall in many areas of the valley, the officials said. […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — In view of inclement weather conditions in the Kashmir Valley, the University of Kashmir has postponed all examinations scheduled for Saturday, December 28. According to an official communiqué, all examinations of the University of Kashmir scheduled for December 28, 2024, stand postponed. Fresh dates for the postponed papers will be notified separately. […]
SRINAGAR — National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah on Friday expressed grief over former prime minister Manmohan Singh’s demise, saying his biggest legacy was that he tried to keep India united and spread love across the nation. “Singh was an excellent economist. His biggest achievement was that he tried to keep India united. He opened […]
