New Delhi/Jammu: The Border Security Force (BSF) has detected a tunnel just beneath the India-Pakistan international border fence in Jammu, officials said on Saturday. The force has launched a major search operation in the area to look for other such hidden structures that aid infiltration even as it is analysing the spotted structure, they said. […]
Jammu: At least six persons, three of them women, were injured when a vehicle they were travelling in met with an accident in Jammu’s Doda district on Saturday. Official sources said that a Tata Sumo (JK06-4862) was on its way from Gandoh to Thathri when it skidded off the road and rolled down into a […]
Government has decided to spend over Rs 350 crores for the government run schools in order to improve their infrastructure and other facilities. Amid pandemic and closure of the schools from the past so many months, it seems baffling on the part of the government to do such spending on government schools as their rolls […]
The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Friday said journalist Aasif Sultan has not been booked for any of his professional works but for allegedly harbouring and supporting terrorists who killed a policeman. “Aasif Sultan not booked for his Journalism but in FIR No.173/2018 PS Batamaloo pertaining to hatching criminal conspiracy, harbouring & supporting terrorists who […]
New Delhi: Days after the Lok Sabha Speaker suggested parliamentary panels to not take up sub-judice matters in their meetings, a house committee on information technology on Friday dropped the contentious issue of internet services suspension in Jammu and Kashmir from its agenda. However, the panel’s meeting where Facebook has been summoned remains on the […]
Three militants and army soldier were killed in an encounter between militants and government forces in Zadoora area of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Saturday. Official sources told GNS that three militants were killed, whose identity is yet to be ascertained. Official sources further said that one Army trooper received bullet wound, who was subsequently […]
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that allowing former premier Nawaz Sharif to leave the country for medical treatment in the UK was a “mistake” and his government “regretted” the decision. Sharif, 70, was allowed to leave for London in November last year after the Lahore High Court granted him a four-week permission to go abroad […]
Senior Congress leader and Leader of the opposition in Rajaya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad has reiterated his demand for inner party elections and warned that if Congress party does not hold inner party elections, it will have to sit in the opposition for the next 50 years . Ghulam Nabi Azad is also a former […]
New Delhi: A two-member central team touring Kashmir has suggested a slew of measures in the Valley in view of the impending winter and a spike in cases. These include setting up 24×7 Covid counselling call centres at divisional levels and strengthening the contact-tracing mechanism by home quarantining all contacts until they test negative. The team — composed […]
The Supreme Court Friday sought the Centre’s response on a PIL seeking directions for framing of guidelines identifying minorities at the state level as the Hindus are in a minority in 10 states and are not able to avail the benefits of schemes meant for minorities. A bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Ajay Rastogi […]