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 — People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday announced that her party would hold peaceful protests at district headquarters across Jammu and Kashmir on August 5 to press for the restoration of Article 370 and “resolution of the Kashmir issue”. The former chief minister stated this at a press conference at the […]
DUBAI — India on Sunday reclaimed the No.1 position in ICC men’s T20I rankings after taking an unassailable 2-0 lead against Zimbabwe in the ongoing three-match series at Harare. The reigning T20 world champions regained the top spot from England, who had dethroned Shreyas Iyer’s side after their 4-0 series win recently. India had also […]
KUPWARA — The body of a youth, Abdul Rashid Dar, who had gone missing from the army’s custody in December last year in the Kunan Poshpora area of Kupwara was recovered on Wednesday and handed over to his family. “After recovering the body from Zurhama forest area, in the morning, the family was called by […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission (JKPSC) has cancelled the Paper-II (Qualifying) of J&K Prosecuting officer (Preliminary) Examination held on 29 January, 2023 and announced that fresh examination to be held on 16th March, 2023. According to an order, the JKPSC said that examination held earlier was cancelled after the complaints were […]
NEW DELHI — Security forces have pumped up their efforts to dismantle the network of LeT’s shadow group The Resistance Front (TRF) which had issued a poster glorifying the militants who had killed a Kashmiri Pandit Sanjay Kumar in Pulwama, officials said Wednesday. The agencies are choking its fund flow and acting against its members […]
JAMMU — Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha addressed the foundation day celebration of Cluster University, Jammu at Padma Shri Padma Sachdev Government PG College for Women, Gandhi Nagar. Congratulating the Cluster University for achieving excellence in quality education, the Lt Governor said that the University, established on 1st March 2017 with five Constituent Colleges, is playing […]
LAHORE — Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan on Wednesday announced suspension of ‘Jail Bharo’ movement after Supreme Court’s decision regarding elections in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) provinces, local media reported. The movement, which kicked off from Lahore on February 22, was scheduled to culminate on March 1 with party […]
DODA — As many as 118 militants of Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda are based in Pakistan and PoK, of whom 10 are most active and are attempting to spread militancy in the region by recruiting the youth, a top police officer said on Wednesday. The police said the two militants have been declared as ‘Individual’ […]
NEW DELHI — Petroleum and oil marketing companies raised the price of commercial liquid petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders by Rs 350.50 per unit and domestic LPG cylinders by Rs 50 per unit with immediate effect from Wednesday. Non-subsidised LPG price was hiked to Rs 1,103 per 14.2-kg cylinder – the first increase since July 2022, […]
ATHENS — At least 32 people were killed and more than 80 others injured in a horrific head-on collision between two trains in central Greece, authorities said on Wednesday. The accident took place late Tuesday night in Tempi, near the city of Larissa, CNN quoted the Greek Fire Service as saying. The cause of the […]
SOPORE — Sudden emissions of gas from a tube well in Bomai village of Sopore in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district has created scare among locals even as they accused the concerned department of carelessness. Quoting locals news agency KNO reported that the well was dug to meet up water scarcity in Logripora village of Bomai, […]
SRINAGAR — The Meteorological Department on Wednesday forecast widespread light to moderate rain and snow in Jammu and Kashmir for next 24 hours. The weather was inclement in the Union Territory during the last 24 hours. An official of the Meteorological Department said, widespread light to moderate rain/snow is likely in J&K during the next […]
