NEW YORK: Outrage soared in America on Friday over new images of police brutality caught on camera as demonstrators sought to take mass protests over the killing of an unarmed black man into a second weekend. With rolling demonstrations over the death last week of George Floyd showing little sign of letting up, arguments raged […]
Srinagar: On the morning of 5 June 2020, Abdul Rahim Bhat was informed by his neighbours that trees in his orchard had been chopped down amid the lockdown owing to the coronavirus pandemic. Mr. Bhat immediately rushed to his orchard in the Bijbehara area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district to assess the damages. Just days […]
Srinagar, June 6 (KNS): Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) president Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari on Saturday urged the union finance ministry to end the differential treatment with business fraternity of J&K and demanded a separate stimulus package covering the lockdown period since August 2019 in order to revive the business activity in this trouble […]
Srinagar, June 06 (KNS): Awami Action Committee (AAC) paid rich tributes to its member and socio political activist shaheed -e-Masjid Molvi Mushtaq Ahmed on his 16th martyrdom anniversary. The organisation in a statement issued to KNS said that the commemorative function by the organisation to pay tribute him could not take place to in wake […]
Srinagar, June 06, (KNS): Government on Saturday said that closure of schools across J&K may extend as most of educational institutions in parts of Jammu have been converted into quarantine centers. Principal Secretary Education Department Dr Asgar Hassan Samoon (IAS) stated that the suspension of educational activities across J&K may extend as most of the […]
Islamabad- The Pakistan Army on Saturday claimed to have shot down an “Indian spying quadcopter” allegedly intruding across the Line of Control (LoC). Military spokesman Major General Babar Iftikhar said that the mini copter violated the country’s airspace in Khanjar sector of the LoC. “The quadcopter had intruded 500 metres on Pakistan’s side of the LoC, […]
Srinagar: Covid19 on Saturday claimed two more lives in Jammu and Kashmir, taking overall toll to 38. One of the victims includes a 70 year old man from Shopian and another being 62 year old from Jammu. Medical superintendent CD hospital Dr. Saleem Tak while talking to a local news agency said that 72-year-old man […]
The Jammu and Kashmir administration Friday asked all its staff to attend work from June 6, from when it has decided to reopen offices regularly, drawing an angry reaction from lower-rung employees. A government order issued this evening said that those who are at higher risk due to the novel coronavirus viz. older employees, pregnant […]
Stepping up efforts ahead of the Saturday meeting of their top military commanders to resolve the tense situation along the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh, Indian and Chinese ambassadors joined a video call between diplomats of their border working mechanism Friday to underline that “the two sides should handle their differences through peaceful discussion” and […]
Indian and Chinese military officials are set to hold high delegation-level talks today in a bid to resolve the month-long row over the Line of Actual Control. This comes a day after the foreign ministry officials of both nations on Friday discussed the flaring of tensions on the disputed Himalayan border. During Friday’s meeting, both sides […]