Agencies The US has agreed to build six atomic power plants in India to strengthen bilateral security and civil nuclear cooperation and expressed its strong support to India’s early membership in the NSG. The two countries said this in a joint statement issued at the conclusion of the 9th round of India-US Strategic Security […]
(Agencies) NEW DELHI — The Congress on Wednesday attacked the BJP government after China blocked a bid at the UN to designate Pakistan-based JeM chief Masood Azhar as a “global terrorist”, saying Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s foreign policy has been a series of “diplomatic disasters”. The opposition party also slammed China for blocking the move. In […]
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday lashed out at PM Narendra Modi after China blocked bid designating Masood Azhar as global terrorist. Abdullah called it Modi’s surrender to China and likened it to the delaying of assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir stating that Modi has surrendered to Pakistan and its […]
Srinagar : The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference on Thursday said the party will not meet the Election Commission of India team in Srinagar. A spokesperson of the party said that J&K National Conference has decided not to meet the ECI delegation. “NC has already made its position clear on LS and LA elections in […]
Srinagar : The authorities on Thursday did not allow fresh traffic on the Jammu-Srinagar highway due to intermittent rains and landslides in last week that left hundreds of vehicles stranded on the highway. An official said that it was decided to clear the stranded vehicles and therefore no fresh traffic was allowed to move from Jammu […]
Long pending wait for the Zojila tunnel to become a reality has frustrated the people of Ladakh and Kargil. They have been waiting for decades to get this tunnel so that they can come out from being locked virtually for more than six months every year due to the closure of Srinagar-Leh road. Their frustration […]
Srinagar : Senior National Conference leader from Tangmarg Shabir Mir today resigned from the party. Mir confirmed to KNS that he has resigned from the party. However, it is not known what made him to resign from the party. Independent sources told KNS that Mir resigned after former bureaucrat Farooq Shah joined NC and is […]
Srinagar: Mutahida Ulema Council (MUC) on Wednesday withdrew the shutdown call issued for March 16 in view of the request made by the Hurriyat (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq. Grand Mufti Nasir-ul-Islam, who heads the Mutahida Ulema Council (MUC), said that the MUC has withdrawn Saturday’s shutdown call. “In view of the request made by […]
Srinagar: Suspected militants on Wednesday afternoon shot dead an army personnel at his home in Pinglena village of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Sources said that the militants barged into the residence of Sajad Ahmad Naikoo (alias Ashiq), an army personnel, at Pinglena and fired bullets at him. He was shifted to a hospital where he succumbed. […]
(Agencies) Nearly 400 people had a narrow escape on Wednesday as Pakistani troops targeted the Trade Facilitation Centre at Chakkan Da Bagh along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district. Several government civil servants, police and immigration officials, labourers and cross LoC traders were present inside the facility at the time […]