A complete is being observed in the Magam town of central Kashmir’s Budgam district even as a group of 24 diplomats from foreign missions, who arrived in Srinagar on Wednesday visited the town block. All shops and business establishments in the area remained shut while traffic movement remained skeletal, a news-gathering agency Kashmir News Trust […]
Jammu and Kashmir is going to remain union territory for some time more as during the latest session of parliament the BJP led central government has shown no inclination to bring any bill for the restoration of statehood. Similarly the assembly elections even for the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir are to be held […]
JAMMU, FEBRUARY 16: The Jammu and Kashmir Government today sanctioned the transfer of functions and functionaries regarding several divisions of Jal Shakti Department to Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) as mandated under 74thConstitutional Amendment. In this regard an order issued here today by the Jal Shakti Department accorded the transfer of Jal Shakti (PHE) City Division-I […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir reported 58 fresh covid-19 cases, twenty of them travellers, in the last 24 hours, taking the total case tally to 125463, officials said on Tuesday. Among them, they said, 47 cases were reported in Kashmir Valley and 11 in Jammu division.
The rupee inched up 5 paise to 72.63 against the US dollar in opening trade on Tuesday amid a firm trend in the domestic equity market and subdued American currency. At the interbank forex market, the domestic unit opened at 72.64 against the US dollar and inched higher to 72.63 against the greenback, registering a […]
Axar Patel and Ravichandran Ashwin predictably completed the annihilation of clueless England batsmen, emphatically bringing India back in contention for the World Test Championship final with a series-levelling 317-run victory in the second Test here on Tuesday. Debutant Patel made full use of favourable conditions to bag 5 for 60 in 21 overs while Ashwin […]
A volley of rockets targeting an airbase in Iraq’s Kurdistan region killed a foreign civilian contractor and wounded five others and an American soldier, the United States-led coalition said. The attack late on Monday was the first time in nearly two months that Western military or diplomatic installations have been targeted in Iraq, after a […]
A year after the Delhi Police received prosecution sanction against former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) President Kanhaiya Kumar and nine others in the 2016 JNU sedition case, a Delhi court Monday took cognisance of the chargesheet and summoned all the accused on March 15. Kanhaiya Kumar and others, including former JNU students Umar […]
Srinagar: National Conference leader Hilal Lone has been arrested under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for allegedly delivering a hate speech at a rally during last year’s district development council elections in Bandipora, a senior police official said on Tuesday. Lone, the son of NC’s Member of Parliament Mohammad Akbar Lone, was arrested on Monday from […]
The former chief minister and National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah in series of tweets has claimed that he has been locked up in his home and other family members were also being detained in the house by the authorities without any reason. Government of Jammu and Kashmir has not reacted officially to the allegations […]