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 — BJP national president Nitin Nabin will visit Jammu on July 6 and 7 on his first visit to the Union Territory after assuming charge of the party earlier this year, a senior party leader said on Sunday. Jammu and Kashmir BJP president Sat Sharma announced at a meeting of party office bearers here, […]
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 […]
JAMMU — In an apparent case of suicide, an Army personnel allegedly shot himself dead using his service rifle in the Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. Havaldar Indesh Kumar was on sentry duty inside his camp at the Anjanwali village in the Manjakote area when he fatally shot himself late Tuesday, the […]
SRINAGAR — A truck driver was killed while as it’s conductor was injured after the vehicle fell into deep gorge at Margan top area of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district. Officials told GNS that a truck carrying bricks from Anantnag to Warwan lost its control at Margan top and fell into deep gorge. Soon a team […]
JAMMU — A Pakistani intruder was apprehended by the Army near the LoC in the Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, security officials said on Thursday. Mohd Sadiq (18) was allegedly attempting to sneak into the Indian side from across the border when he was intercepted by the alert troops at Noorkote, a village near […]
JAMMU — Three persons were killed and two others injured in two separate road accidents in Samba and Ramban districts of Jammu and Kashmir Wednesday, officials said. Two unidentified persons lost their lives when their load carrier plunged into a gorge near Nud-Mansar in Samba on Wednesday night, the officials said. They said the driver […]
JAMMU — The authorities in Jammu on Wednesday conducted an inspection of nearly two dozen ultrasound and imaging centres, and sealed one such facility for its failure to renew registration, an official spokesman said. The drive was conducted across various subdivisions on the directions of Jammu Deputy Commissioner Sachin Kumar Vaishya, the spokesman said. He […]
SRINAGAR — Senior Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader and former minister Naeem Akhtar on Wednesday expressed grave concerns over the severe cash crunch affecting Jammu and Kashmir’s government treasuries. He warned that the crisis is leaving contractors, government employees, and pensioners in dire financial straits. In a statement, Akhtar highlighted the plight of pensioners, whose […]
JAMMU — The Army busted a major militant hideout in the Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday and seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition, officials said here. The Rashtriya Rifles troops busted the hideout during cordon and search operations in the forest area of Mahore, they said. According to the officials, […]
JAMMU (KIMS) — In a swift and commendable operation, the Jammu Police unraveled the mystery behind the blind murder of a laborer, Pappu Paswan, within six hours of its report in the Garkhal area of Akhnoor. The investigation was led by IC SDPO Akhnoor Mudassir Hussain, SHO Akhnoor, and IC BPP Garkhal, under the supervision […]
NEW DELHI — India’s oldest Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband on Wednesday opposed the proposed changes to the existing Waqf law during a meeting with the Parliamentary panel examining the bill. Maulana Arshad Madani, the principal of Darul Uloom Deoband, appearing before the Joint Committee on the Waqf Amendment Bill, chaired by BJP member Jagdambika […]
SRINAGAR — Discussions between Union home and tourism ministries are at an advanced stage on allowing satellite phones for trekkers in no-network zones in the Kashmir valley, Tourism Director Raja Yaqoob Farooq said here on Wednesday. “The tourism ministry, Government of India, has already taken up (the issue) with the MHA for different states, because […]
