BENGALURU — Oil prices rose 2% on Tuesday to their highest in four weeks, as the U.S. reimposed its naval blockade of Iran while the two countries stepped up attacks in the Strait of Hormuz, heightening uncertainty about energy flows. Brent crude futures climbed $1.68, or 2%, to $84.98 per barrel by 0051 GMT, while […]
SRINAGAR — Peoples Conference president Sajad Lone on Friday said the protest scheduled by the National Conference on the first day of the Monsoon session of Parliament was a process to bury Article 370 and create confusion by taking Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood issue to pan-India politics. “I cannot be certain of the National Conference’s […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan spin-bowling all-rounder Mohammad Nawaz has accepted a three-month period of ineligibility (which will be reduced to one month on completion of a substance of abuse treatment programme) for breaching the ICC Anti-Doping Code. The 32-year-old had tested positive for a Substance of Abuse (Carboxy-THC) under the ICC Anti-Doping Code following a doping […]
PULWAMA (KIMS) — The citizens from all walks of life on Thursday came together and marched from DC Office to Main Chowk Pulwama in a powerful protest against Srinagar attack which claimed lives of two persons—Amrit Pal Singh and Rohit Mashi. The protest, which included civilians, youth, traders, civil society members, and social activists was […]
SRINAGAR — The Enforcement Directorate has arrested a Kupwara resident in money laundering case linked to admissions of Jammu and Kashmir students in MBBS and other courses in Pakistan. In a post on X, ED said that it has arrested Mohammad Abdullah Shah, a resident of Kupwara under the provisions of PMLA, 2002 in connection […]
ISLAMABAD — Polling for Pakistan general elections began on Thursday at 90,000 polling stations across the country amid tight security. The polling began at 8:00 a.m. local time and will end at 5 p.m. Minutes before polling began, mobile internet services were temporarily suspended across the country, Dawn reported. “The step has been taken due […]
SRINAGAR — A video showing a man in uniform asking an elderly Kashmiri to chant “Jai Shri Ram” has kicked up a row in Kashmir. The video’s authenticity could not be independently confirmed by The Telegraph “Shocking! Man in uniform holds the arm of an Elderly Kashmiri Muslim man firmly, asks him to utter Religious […]
BRUSSELS — The world just experienced its hottest January on record, continuing a run of exceptional heat fuelled by climate change, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on Thursday. Last month surpassed the previous warmest January, which occurred in 2020, in C3S’s records going back to 1950. The exceptional month came after […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Two persons from Punjab were killed in a militant attack in Shaheed Gunj area of Srinagar on Wednesday evening. Reports said, two persons were critically injured after they were fired upon by suspected militants at Shaheed Gunj area of the city on Wednesday evening. Soon after the incident, they were evacuated to […]
JAMMU — The authorities in Jammu on Wednesday asked social media news portals operating in the district to refrain from posting messages that has potential to disturb communal harmony, cause breach of peace and disturbance of public tranquility. According to an order, Deputy Commissioner Jammu said that it has been made to appear that there […]
NEW DELHI — India’s total solar energy potential has been estimated at 748 GWp (Giga Watt peak), Union Minister for New & Renewable Energy and Power, R.K. Singh, informed the Parliament on Wednesday. The estimate has been provided by the National Institute of Solar Energy (NISE), on the basis of data from Waste Land Atlas […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — On the eve of Shab-i-Miraj, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Youth Leader Waheed-ur-Rehhman Para has extended his warmest greetings and heartfelt felicitations to all the people of Jammu and Kashmir. He said that this blessed occasion marks the miraculous journey of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) from the Holy Kaaba to Baitul Muqaddas and his […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Jammu And Kashmir is grappling with numerous hardships. However, I believed that the only party capable of addressing these challenges and alleviating the suffering of the people is the (NC) National Conference, the party leader Assadullah Ellahi said on Wednesday. Assadullah Ellahi while talking to Media persons said, “I decided to join […]
