Sopore: A spice grinding factory and a bandsaw unit were gutted in fire in Nowpora area of Sopore in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday. An official said that fire broke out in the two units at around 2 am in the night. Locals and fire tenders managed to […]
Baramulla: Defence Correspondent at the daily Rising Kashmir, Javid Ahmad died of heart attack Thursday afternoon in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Javid, a resident of Watergam Rafiabad Baramulla was on his way to Srinagar when he suddenly fell unconscious after sufferring a massive heart attack at Pattan, sources told Kashmir Reader. He was rushed to […]
Srinagar: Lieutenant Governor J&K, Manoj Sinha on Thursday visited the family of late advocate Babar Qadri, who was recently killed by unidentified gunmen at his home in Srinagar’s. An official statement said that LG Sinha visited the family of slain advocate in Hawal,Srinagar and spoke to Babar’s father, Mohammad Yaseen Qadri,his brother Zafar Qadri and […]
Srinagar: Two soldiers were killed and four others were injured in firing by Pakistani army along the Line of Control in Naugam Kupwara in north Kashmir, Indian army said on Thursday. “Pakistan initiated an unprovoked ceasefire violation along LoC in Naugam Sector, Kupwara today morning by firing mortars and other weapons. Two soldiers (were killed) […]
The “jungle raj” that has spread in Uttar Pradesh has no limits and the time for accountability is now, the Congress said on Thursday as a Dalit woman in the state’s Balrampur district died after being allegedly raped by two men. Several Congress leaders, including former president Rahul Gandhi, reacted to the two incidents. Alleging […]
Kabul: An Afghan official says at least nine people including four civilians were killed when a suicide car bomber attacked a military checkpoint in southern Afghanistan. Omer Zwak, a spokesman for the provincial governor in Helmand, said Thursday a small child and three security personnel were wounded in the late Wednesday night attack in Nahri Sarah […]
Imtiyaz Ahmad, 21, wanted to continue his studies after clearing his class 12 exam but did not have enough money to do so. With not much work available in the remote mountainous region of Rajouri, he left this summer for Shopian in Kashmir Valley to work as a labourer to earn enough money to secure admission to […]
Jammu and Kashmir recorded 17 more Covid deaths on Wednesday, taking their number to 1,181, while 975 new cases pushed the infection tally in the union territory to 75,070, officials said. Eleven of the fresh fatalities were reported in Jammu and six in the Valley, they added. There are 17,017 active cases in the UT, […]
New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 caseload breached the 63-lakh mark with 86,821 infections being reported in a day, while 52,73,201 people have recuperated so far from the disease, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday. The recovery rate stands at 83.53 per cent. The total coronavirus cases mounted to 63,12,584, while the death toll […]
Jammu: An Army Soldier was killed and another injured when Pakistani troops violated the ceasefire and resorted to heavy firing and mortar shelling in forward areas along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, officials said on Thursday. The Pakistan Army initiated the unprovoked ceasefire violation by firing from small arms and […]