SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Manpreet Singh, National Secretary of the Indian Youth Congress, has strongly condemned the assault on an 18-year-old Kashmiri shawl seller in Uttarakhand and demanded immediate and strict action against the culprits. In a statement, Singh said the brutal assault on a young Kashmiri shawl seller was a shameful reminder of the growing […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — An 18-year-old Kashmiri boy was brutality assaulted by a group of people in the Vikas Nagar area of Uttarakhand on Wednesday evening while he was selling shawls along with his family. In a statement, the Jammu and Kashmir Students Association (JKSA) said the boy was attacked by a group of fringe elements, […]
SRINAGAR — A high-level avalanche warning has been issued for several vulnerable areas of Jammu and Kashmir’s Ganderbal district, including the Sonamarg tourist resort, officials said on Wednesday. The advisory comes in the wake of a recent avalanche that struck near the New Truck Yard in Sonamarg at around 10.15 pm on Tuesday. While no […]
NEW DELHI — The Delhi High Court on Wednesday rejected a plea by jailed Lok Sabha MP from Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla, Sheikh Abdul Rashid alias Engineer Rashid, challenging the framing of charges against him in a terror funding case. A bench of Justices Prathiba M Singh and Madhu Jain said the appeal by Rashid […]
NEW DELHI — The Delhi High Court on Wednesday granted four weeks to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to respond to a reply filed by separatist leader Yasin Malik to its appeal seeking death penalty for him in a terror funding case, and listed the matter for hearing on April 22. As Malik, who was […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — The Meteorological Department (MeT) on Wednesday said that Jammu and Kashmir is likely to witness a fresh spell of rain and snowfall from February 1, while the weather is expected to remain mostly dry till then. According to the Meteorological Department, light rain or snowfall is expected at a few places across […]
SRINAGAR — Flight operations to and fro Srinagar International Airport resumed on Wednesday, a day after all flights were cancelled due to snowfall in Kashmir, officials said. “The first flight has landed at 9.25 am. We expect normal flight operations through the day if the weather conditions hold,” an official of the Airport Authority of […]
SRINAGAR — Braving treacherous weather and waist-deep snow, a doctor posted in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district on Tuesday proved that a sense of duty can triumph over even nature’s harshest challenges as he reached his hospital atop an excavator to attend to patients. Dr. Basharat Pandit, a resident of south Kashmir’s Pulwama and currently […]
SRINAGAR — Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday lashed out the BJP saying that its leaders rolled out red carpets for Sheikhs from the Middle East but watched with glee when the shrine of Sufi poet Baba Bulleh Shah was vandalised. “BJP leaders pose in mosques abroad and roll out red carpets for […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Fresh snowfall that occurred across the Kashmir Valley since last night disrupted land and air traffic on Tuesday. According to traffic officials, vehicular movement has been suspended from both sides on the Srinagar–Jammu National Highway due to snowfall in and around the Navyug Tunnel. The Mughal Road, SSG Road, and Sinthan–Kishtwar Road […]