NEW YORK — The price of oil surpassed $100 a barrel for the first time in almost six weeks after attacks on oil facilities and ships in the Middle East threatened to debilitate an already weakened supply chain. The most heavily traded contract for a barrel of Brent crude, the international standard, settled at $97.89 […]
SRINAGAR — Srinagar Lok Sabha MP Ruhullah Mehdi on Tuesday said the democracy in the country is “beginning to breathe” while referring to the protests against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Gyanesh Kumar, and demanded that all polls held under his supervision be “revisited and reviewed”. He also criticised the crackdown on protesters in Delhi during […]
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 […]
Trio gone outside Kashmir; special teams deputed to locate them: SP Sopore SRINAGAR — Tree minors have been missing from an Islamic seminary in Maharajpura area of Sopore in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, since August 3. The police said the trio has gone outside Kashmir and a special team has been deployed to track them. […]
JAMMU — A 25-year-old man allegedly died by hanging inside a police station after he was detained in the Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, officials said. The death of Anmol Dogra, a resident of the Mathyal village in Katra, triggered protests by his family following which Sub-divisional Magistrate Piyush Dotra ordered an […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s former premier Imran Khan on Wednesday said he will apologise for last year’s May 9 riots if any member of his party is found guilty of participating in the violence. Speaking to journalists in Adiala Jail, 71-year-old founder of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party demanded the CCTV footage of last year’s May 9 […]
SRINAGAR — National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah on Wednesday said his party will not enter into a pre-poll alliance with any other party for the Assembly election in Jammu and Kashmir. “We will not enter into any alliance, totally not,” Abdullah told reporters here. The NC chief’s comments came on the eve of the […]
JAMMU — National Conference vice-president Omar Abdullah on Wednesday attacked the BJP over its claims of a “new and prosperous” Jammu and Kashmir following the abrogation of Article 370 and alleged that the situation on the ground was the complete opposite. “I am compelled to ask what the people (of the Union Territory) have got […]
DHAKA — Bangladesh’s Muhammad Yunus, who is set to lead an interim government after the premier was ousted, called for calm and urged people to use the opportunity to build a better nation. “I fervently appeal to everybody to stay calm. Please refrain from all kinds of violence,” the Nobel-winning microfinance pioneer said in a […]
SRINAGAR — People’s Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday said the situation in Bangladesh was a lesson for India that the youth should not be pushed to the wall and dictatorships do not last long. Bangladesh has plunged into uncertainty after weeks of violent street protests over job quota forced Sheikh Hasina to quit […]
SRINAGAR — J&K’s Chief Electoral Officer has invited bids for the hire of a helicopter and helicopter ambulance for the forthcoming Assembly elections in the UT. The full Election Commission is visiting J&K on August 8 to interact with the representatives of various political parties to get feedback from them regarding the Assembly polls likely […]
KULGAM — The Kulgam Police on Tuesday seized properties worth crores of a drug peddler at Nassu Badragund, Qazigund town of Jammu and Kashmir, said an official release. The seized building is a double-storied residential house measuring 1145 square feet. The drug peddler has been identified as Ghulam Rasool Bhat, son of Ghulam Mohammad Bhat, […]
NEW DELHI — The Waqf (Amendment) Bill, which will amend the law governing Waqf boards, is likely to be introduced in the Parliament today. The bill aims to rename the Waqf Act, 1995, as the Unified Waqf Management, Empowerment, Efficiency and Development Act, 1995. It also seeks to omit Section 40 of the current law […]
