TOKYO — Oil prices climbed nearly 2% on Wednesday after the U.S. military launched airstrikes against Iran and reimposed crude sales sanctions, raising fears their fragile truce was unravelling and Middle East supplies could be disrupted again. The U.S. airstrikes were in response to Iranian attacks on three commercial vessels that were transiting the Strait […]
SRINAGAR — Former chairperson of the District Development Council (DDC) Baramulla, Safina Baig, on Wednesday joined the ruling National Conference here. Safina Baig is the wife of former deputy chief minister, and PDP co-founder Muzaffar Hussain Baig. She joined the National Conference (NC) in the presence of party president Farooq Abdullah, and Chief Minister Omar […]
NEW DELHI — Former Afghanistan fast bowler Shapoor Zadran died on Tuesday, a day short of his 39th birthday, after reportedly undergoing treatment for a rare severe immune system disorder at a New Delhi hospital. “With profound grief and deep sorrow, the Afghanistan Cricket Board mourns the passing of former Afghanistan fast bowler Shapoor Zadran,” […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan on Saturday sought relief in the Al-Qadir corruption case following the Supreme Court’s reinstatement of amendments in the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) laws. The top court on Friday gave a nod to an intra-court appeal in favour of restoring the changes made in the laws in 2022, […]
NEW DELHI — BJP MP Sudhanshu Trivedi on Saturday said that National Conference leader Omar Abdullah’s remarks about the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was an “expose of their nefarious, nasty, separatist anti-national design”. Trivedi also targeted the Congress, an alliance partner of the NC in the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir Assembly election, […]
JAMMU — Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will arrive here on Sunday to join BJP’s election campaign for the three-phase Assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir starting September 18, a day after Union Home Minister Amit Shah wrapped up his two-day visit to the Union Territory. BJP sources said that Rajnath Singh will address an election […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — The Jammu and Kashmir Police have taken cognizance of an individual accused of assaulting his parents and preventing them from entering their own home for the past year in Srinagar. “Acting on a written complaint from the accused’s mother, Mst Taja Banoo, wife of Gh Ahmad Wani, a criminal case (FIR No. […]
SRINAGAR — Women voters outnumber men in the six assembly segments of Srinagar district that are scheduled to go to polls on September 25 in the second phase of polling in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said here. Of the 7,74,462 registered voters, 3,87,778 are female while 3,86,654 are male and 30 people have registered themselves […]
JAMMU — A suspected drug peddler from Chhattisgarh was arrested along with nine kilograms of narcotics in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Saturday, police said. The accused Umesh Kumar Sahu was intercepted at the Kallar Chowk checkpoint on Jammu-Poonch national highway and arrested with the contraband substance, a police spokesperson said. In a separate […]
JAMMU — The Jammu region would decide the formation of a government in the assembly poll-bound Jammu and Kashmir, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Saturday while appealing to the people to ensure the victory of the BJP’s candidates in the elections. Polling in Jammu and Kashmir is scheduled on September 18, 25 and […]
JAMMU — Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday assured restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir after the assembly polls, which he said are the first under the national flag and the Constitution following the abrogation of Article 370 by the Modi government. He accused the Congress-National Conference alliance of making attempts to revive […]
JAMMU — The Office of the Chief Electoral Officer has said nine FIRs were lodged and five government employees suspended for violations of the Model Code of Conduct in Jammu and Kashmir. Twenty-three warnings were issued and inquiries were underway in 48 cases of poll code violations, the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) […]
DODA — In an unprecedented move aimed at ensuring free and fair polling in the ongoing assembly elections, authorities in Doda district are leveraging advanced technology across all three assembly constituencies. For the first time, CCTV cameras are being installed at all 534 polling stations, with live monitoring from the Deputy Commissioner’s office. This extensive […]
