Top IPS officer Basant Kumar Rath, posted in Jammu and Kashmir, has been suspended for alleged instances of “gross misconduct and misbehaviour”, according to an order issued by the Home Ministry Wednesday. The order says a disciplinary proceeding against Rath is contemplated in connection with “repeated instances of gross misconduct and misbehaviour”, which has been […]
WASHINGTON: The United States on Wednesday passed another grim coronavirus milestone with three million confirmed cases, as President Donald Trump downplayed the risks posed by the pandemic and aggressively pushed for schools to reopen. The coronavirus is surging in several southern hotspots including Texas, Florida, Louisiana and Arizona, while it has almost entirely receded from […]
COLOMBO: Domestic cricket in Sri Lanka will resume next Tuesday without spectators, the country’s cricket board said on Wednesday. Lockdown and curfews have ceased in Sri Lanka, where the total number of infections was reported to be 2,084 on Wednesday. Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) organised two residential training camps for the national team squad last […]
CPI (M) leader Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami on Thursday condemned the killings of BJP leader Sheikh Waseem Bari, his father Bashir Ahmed and brother Umar Bashir, who were killed by the militants on Wednesday evening in Bandipora. There is no justification to kill anybody and violence has no place in any civilized society. The brutal incident […]
SRINAGAR, JULY 9: Lt Governor, Girish Chandra Murmu has condemned the killings of BJP leader Sheikh Waseem Bari, his father Bashir Ahmed and brother Umar Bashir, who were killed by the militants on Wednesday evening. In a condolence message, the Lt Governor has said that the barbaric act of killing innocent people is against the […]
After the delay for the Darbar move, the civil secretariat in Srinagar started functioning but most of the offices have been kept open in Jammu bringing question marks on the entire exercise of Darbar move. Is the Union Government seriously thinking of saying goodbye to this costly exercise in which crores of rupees are spent […]
Srinagar: A youth was killed during a scuffle over some land dispute in the Vailoo area of Kokernag in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Thursday morning. A local news gathering news agency Kashmir News Observer (KNO) quoting an unnamed official reported that members of two families had a confrontation in early morning hours over a […]
Srinagar: Inspector General of Police Vijay Kumar on Thursday said that the killing of Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) leader along with father and brother was a “preplanned attack” by the militants who “have been identified”. Bharatiya Janta Party leader, a former district president of the party for Bandipora, Sheikh Wasim Bari, his father Bashir Ahmad […]
Uttar Pradesh gangster Vikas Dubey, wanted in connection with the killing of eight police officers in Kanpur, was arrested from the famous Mahakal temple in Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain on Thursday morning. Confirming Dubey’s arrest, Home Minister Narottam Mishra said the Madhya Pradesh Police were looking for him and have now alerted their UP counterparts. He also […]
The death toll due to COVID-19 has crossed 150-mark in Jammu and Kashmir as two more patients from the Valley died on Thursday, officials said. Two more COVID-19 patients died in Kashmir on Thursday, thus taking the toll of deaths in J&K to 151. Officials told news agency—Kashmir News Observer that the two patients include […]