Islamabad : Pakistan has registered its highest single-day spike of coronavirus cases with over 5,000 infections in the last 24 hours, a day after the World Health Organisation urged the government to follow an “intermittent lockdown” policy to stem the spike in the disease. According to the Ministry of National Health Services, 83 more COVID-19 […]
Srinagar: Two more militants were killed in a gunfight that broke between militants and the government forces in Sugoo-Hendhama village of South Kashmir’s Shopian district on Wednesday, taking the toll of killed militants to five. A local news agency, Kashmir News Observer (KNO), quoted unnamed official sources saying that five militants have been killed in the […]
Srinagar: A woman admitted to Srinagar’s Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial (JNLM) hospital for Covid-19 tried to escape Sunday after she tested positive for a fifth time. An asymptomatic case, she was first brought in on 2 May along with her husband and three children, who were also asymptomatic. While her family eventually tested negative and were discharged, […]
The distance between Jammu and Srinagar – the winter and summer capitals, respectively, of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir – is less than 300 km. But the chasm in mutual trust is far greater. In 1872, when Maharaja Ranbir Singh began the practice of alternating between Jammu and Srinagar every six months as […]
Nepal’s lower house on Tuesday evening made a strong pitch in favour of the constitution amendment bill to redraw Nepal’s political map that could lead to a freeze in relations between Kathmandu and New Delhi. The new political map pushed hard by the KP Sharma Oli government is set to clear the first legislative hurdle in the […]
A unit affiliated with Libya’s east-based forces that have been trying to capture Tripoli but are now on the retreat, ordered the country’s largest oil field to halt work just hours after it restarted operations, the national oil company said Tuesday. Armed groups stopped oil production at the Sharara field on two occasions in just […]
Srinagar, June 10 : Two militants were killed in an ongoing gunfight with government forces in Sugoo Hendhama area of South Kashmir’s Shopian district on Wednesday. A senior Police officer told GNS that two militants were killed in an ongoing operation. However, he said, the identity of the slain militants was yet to be ascertained […]
Srinagar, June 09 (KNS): The Government on Tuesday informed that 61 new positive cases of novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), 17 from Jammu division and 44 from Kashmir division, have been reported today thus taking the total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 4346. Also, 03 COVID-19 deaths have been reported from Kashmir division. […]
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday directed Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami to appear before Mumbai Police on June 10 for interrogation while hearing a petition by the journalist seeking quashing of two FIRs filed against him at Pydhonie and NM Joshi Marg police stations. The bench directed Goswami to appear at NM Joshi Marg […]
Srinagar, 09 June (KNS): Jammu and Kashmir National Conference Member of Parliament from Anantnag Hasnain Masoodi on Tuesday said that 32,000 Indians stranded in Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh have reportedly returned through land border immigration checkpoints, yet 300 students and J&K residents stranded in Pakistan have been endlessly waiting for their evacuation delayed without any […]