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 […]
Suspected militants triggered off a low-intensity improvised explosive device (IED) in Bijbhera area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Tuesday, officials said. However, they said there was no loss of life or injury reported in the explosion which took place at Pazalpora area of the Bijbhera. A senior police officer told GNS that the small […]
Srinagar: A seventeen-year-old boy committed suicide on Monday evening by hanging himself to death in Habba Kadal area of Srinagar. Official sources told a local news agency, Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the boy was identified as Suhail Ahmad son of Mukhtar Ahmad Badyari hanged himself on Monday evening at his home near Sona Masjid […]
Jammu and Kashmir reported 64 fresh covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total count to 125405. Among the fresh cases, officials told GNS that 53 cases were reported from Kashmir and 10 from Jammu. They said Srinagar reported 35 cases, Baramulla 3, Budgam 3, Pulwama 5, Kupwara 0, Anantnag 1, Bandipora 1, […]
Lieutenant governor (LG) of Jammu and Kashmir, Manoj Sinha has said the region has a development deficit of 73 years and there would be challenges to fill the gaps, but his administration is fully prepared to deal with it, Press Trust of India reported. He also said the aspirations and dreams of the people of […]