Srinagar not militancy free, militants getting killed before setting up base: IGP Kashmir

Srinagar not militancy free, militants getting killed before setting up base: IGP Kashmir

Srinagar: Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kashmir Vijay Kumar Friday said that Srinagar district is not “militancy free” as the militants keep on coming to the district for receiving funds and medical treatment. “Srinagar can never be militancy free as long as militancy is there. Militants keep on coming to the city for many purposes. […]

Education department employee booked for social media posts on Sopore incident: Police

Education department employee booked for social media posts on Sopore incident: Police

Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir police’s cyber cell has identified many persons who are “misusing social media by spreading false propaganda against the government,” a statement said on Friday. The statement further reads, “One such person namely Tahir Nazir Shalla S/O Nazir Ah Shalla who is working in the education department (Higher Education) who in […]

Advocate Zahid Ali detained, booked under PSA

Advocate Zahid Ali detained, booked under PSA

Srinagar: Authorities on Friday booked Advocate Zahid Ali under Public Safety Act (PSA) and shifted him to Central Jail Srinagar. According to family, Mr. Ali was taken away by Jammu and Kashmir police on 30 June from his residence Nehama, Pulwama, and detained him at Police Station Kakapora, a local news gathering agency Kashmir News […]

Police present chargesheet against Yasin Malik in Baramulla court

Police present chargesheet against Yasin Malik in Baramulla court

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Police have presented chargesheet against Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Yasin Malik in the Court of Additional District and Sessions Judge Baramulla, in two cases registered against him in Police Station Sumbal. Police presented a charge sheet against Muhammad Yasin Malik in front of the judge Sanjay Parihar, through […]

Modi reaches Ladakh to assess border situation with China

Modi reaches Ladakh to assess border situation with China

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday reached Ladakh to assess the situation on the China border where a standoff position is continuing for the past nearly two months, in a surprise move to send a message of solidarity with the soldiers and people in Ladakh. It is the Prime Minister’s first visit to Ladakh since […]

Choreographer Saroj Khan passes away at 71

Choreographer Saroj Khan passes away at 71

Bollywood choreographer Saroj Khan passed away in Mumbai on Friday following a cardiac arrest. She was 71. Saroj’s daughter Sukaina Khan confirmed the news to indianexpress.com. Saroj Khan was born as Nirmala Nagpal. She joined the Indian film industry as a child artiste, playing the younger Shyama in Nazarana. She eventually became a background dancer in […]

Why social distance and wearing mask is important? A new study on cough droplets finds out

Why social distance and wearing mask is important? A new study on cough droplets finds out

a well-established fact that respiratory droplets are responsible for the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 pathogen which causes Covid-19. These droplets eject when people cough, sneeze or talk. The mathematical model designed by the researchers focusses on the aerodynamics of the droplets to understand how it infects a healthy person. They compared the droplet cloud ejected by […]