ISLAMABAD: The Taliban have put the son of the movement’s founder in charge of their military wing and added several powerful figures to their negotiating team, Taliban officials said. The shake-up, one of the most significant in years, comes ahead of expected talks with Kabul aimed at ending decades of war in Afghanistan. As head […]
MANCHESTER: All-rounder Ben Stokes piled on the agony for the West Indies with a century in the second Test at Old Trafford on Friday after Dom Sibley’s painstaking hundred finally came to an end. England were 378-5 at tea on the second day, with Stokes 172 not out in a match the hosts need to […]
Srinagar: A driver was killed after a tractor he was driving overturned at Kandiwara village of Kokarnag area in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Saturday. A local news gathering agency Kashmir News Observer (KNO) reported that driver lost his control over the tractor without registration number while it was surmounting a slope and turned turtle. […]
Jammu: Three civilians were killed overnight in Pakistan shelling on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, officials said on Saturday. Police said three members of a family including father, mother and son were killed when their house was hit by a shell fired by Pakistan Army in Khari Karmara sector […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir administration has decided to notify certain areas in the union territory as “strategic areas”, to facilitate smooth construction for the requirements of armed forces. The governing body for overlooking construction of facilities for the armed forces is the Cantonment Board, which only had authority over areas falling under cantonments in J&K. […]
Jammu: A Pakistani “intruder” was arrested by the Army along the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, an official said on Saturday. The man was found moving into this side in Nowshera sector late Friday night and was immediately arrested, he said. The official said the man was being questioned. […]
With 34,884 people testing positive for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, India’s caseload surged to 10,38,716 while the death toll from the disease rose to 26,273 with 671 fatalities, the Union health ministry said. According to the ministry’s data updated at 8 am on Saturday, 6,53,750 people have recovered from the disease so far. […]
Defence minister Rajnath Singh, who is on a 2-day visit to Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir, on Saturday morning visited the Amarnath cave shrine to pay obeisance and perform Puja. Reports said Singh was accompanied by the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat and Army chief General MM Naravane. Singh had on Friday […]
The latest about the 4G services in Jammu and Kashmir is that petitioner’s lawyer and the government lawyers locked horns before the judges of Supreme Court whether the top court should move ahead on the plea for the contempt proceedings against Union Home secretary and Chief secretary of Jammu and Kashmir for violating the court […]
Options seem to be running out for Nepal prime minister KP Sharma Oli with the high powered nine-member secretariat of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) scheduled to meet on Saturday in Kathmandu to decide the political future of the country. The meeting will be held at 3pm in Baluwatar. According to political sources based […]