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 […]
JAMMU — A government school teacher in Ramban district was suspended on Friday for criticising government policies on social media, officials said. Joginder Singh, a teacher at a school in Chanderkot, was running four Facebook pages as a socio-political activist to conceal his real identity, they said. He was criticising government policies and posting anti-government […]
ANANTNAG — A civilian was injured in a firing incident in Hassanpora area of Bijbehara town in Anantnag district of South Kashmir on Friday. Reports said, a civilian identified as Asif Ganai, son of Martyr Head Constable Ali Mohd Ganai was fired upon and injured by militants outside mosque at his native village, Hassanpora Tavela […]
GOOL — Immovable properties of three persons who were allegedly involved in the militant activity were attached by the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) of Jammu and Kashmir Police on Friday. The accused were booked for allegedly hurling a grenade at the Police Post, Gool on August 2, 2022, officials said. The immovable properties include a […]
RAMBAN — Days after Chief Secretary warned employees against misuse of social media, a teacher in J&K’s Ramban district has been suspended for a Facebook post allegedly critical of the government. The suspension order to this effect has been issued by District Magistrate Ramban, Mussarat Islam. “Pending enquiry and for violations of directions passed by […]
JAMMU — Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik appeared via video-conferencing before a special court here on Friday and an eyewitness identified him in the 1989 kidnapping of Rubaiya Sayeed, the daughter of then Union home minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed. The eyewitness corroborated that he had gone to Sopore in Baramulla district of […]
LUCKNOW — Twenty-three children from a government-run school in Srinagar, who are on an eight-day Bharat Darshan tour, visited the Bada Imambara and later went to the Lulu Mall in Lucknow. The tour organised by Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) Frontier Unit reached the Uttar Pradesh state capital from Chandigarh. The children were amazed to see […]
JAMMU — In a meeting chaired by the Chief Secretary to deliberate upon misinformation created regarding property tax in Jammu and Kashmir, it was clarified that all the poor, marginalized having small houses having built-up area up to 1000 square feet have been exempted by the government from paying any property tax to be levied […]
SRINAGAR — A man from Pulwama was killed after being hit by moving train on Budgam-Srinagar section on Thursday. The man identified as Sanaullah Bhat, son of Abdul Ahad Bhat, a resident of Lajoora Pulwama was seriously injured after being hit by a train. He was immediately evacuated from the spot to the hospital, where […]
SOPORE — A man was injured in a mysterious blast in Warpora area of Sopore in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Thursday. Quoting an official, news agency KNO reported that the man identified as Mohammad Jamal Dar, son of Ghulam Mohammad Dar of Warpora Sopore was digging earth at his orchard in Warpora when the […]
KULGAM — A residential house and some shops were damaged on Thursday after a landslide occurred in Noorabad area of Damhal Hanjipora in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district. An official told news agency KNO that landslide took place at Shalmachi Yarikhah in Noorabad in which almost 3-5 shops belonging to Fayaz Ahmad Hajam and Abdul Majeed […]
