Srinagar: Twenty people were killed and 17 injured when the driver of an overcrowded mini bus lost control of the vehicle and it plunged into a 500-feet deep gorge on the Jammu-Srinagar highway on Saturday, police said. Reports said that around 11:00 in the morning, a minibus (Matador) on way from Ramban to Banihal loss […]
The opening of the Kartarpur border crossing for Sikh pilgrims will remain pending if there are no talks between India and Pakistan, the Foreign Office said Thursday, asserting that dialogue is the only way forward to resolve issues and disputes between the two countries. Foreign Office spokesperson Muhammad Faisal told reporters that Pakistan “could only […]
Srinagar: The Peoples Democratic Party lawmaker from Wachi constituency of Shopian district Aijaz Ahmad Mir on Thursday alleged that the Munshi of Rajbagh Police Station was compelling the families of his former Personal Security Officers to speak against him in the “weapon heist case”. Taking to Facebook, Mir alleged that a policeman abused him while […]
SRINAGAR : The Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), J&K, ShaleenKabra today said the polling timing for the 1st Phase of Municipal Polls-2018, scheduled to be held on 8 October 2018, shall be from 7.00 am to 4.00 pm.
Kaithal :A 16-year-old girl has alleged that she and her mother were raped by an assistant sub-inspector rank police official in a village here last month following which police booked 18 people, including seven policemen in the case. The victim told senior officials the main accused who was a ASI rank police official raped them […]
As part of bi-annual Darbar move, the Civil Secretariat, seat of Jammu and Kashmir government, along with other offices will close here at the end of this month and reopen in the winter capital Jammu next month. An order issued here by the General Administration Department (GAD) said: “The offices, as indicated at Annexures ‘ […]
With unrelenting increase in fuel prices, the government on Thursday decided to effect a cut in the prices of petrol and diesel by Rs 2.50 per litre. Finance Minsiter Arun Jaitley announced at a press conference that the cut will be effected through slashing of excise duty to the tune of Rs 1.50 per litre, […]
Police on Thursday claimed to have busted an over-ground worker module of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen in Lolab area of northern district Kupwara. The spokesman said that acting on specific input, Kupwara police detained two persons identified as Shakir Ahmad Wani son of Mohammad Ramzan Wani and Ghulam Mustafa Sheikh son of Abdul Ahad Sheikh, both residents of […]
Srinagar : Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik has said that India has made mistakes while handling Kashmir and in the process, alienated itself. In an interview to Indian Express, he said his priority is to “create an environment of trust” in which the Centre can initiate talks with mainstream parties and even the […]
Srinagar : A complete shutdown is being observed in Tral area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district against the slapping of Public Safety Act (PSA) on a local shopkeeper. All the shops and business establishments are shut in the area while as a thin movement of traffic is visible on the roads. Confined in a Jammu […]