Srinagar, Mar 11 (KNS) : A casual labour of the Kashmir Power Distribution Corporation Ltd died of electrocution in Zakura area of Srinagar outskirts on Wednesday. Reports reaching to Kashmir News Service said that an employee of PDC was repairing a transmission line in Zakura area when he received the electric shock, he was taken […]
LAHORE: Quetta Gladiators’ Australian cricketer Ben Cutting on Tuesday said Pakistan was safe for cricket and he did not have any apprehensions on coming here to play in the HBL Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2020. “Security was not my concern as I had seen the security measures during the World Eleven tour in September 2017,” […]
Four-time MP and former union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, who has resigned from Congress, joined the BJP in presence of party chief JP Nadda on Wednesday. As per BJP sources, Scindia is likely to be rewarded with a Rajya Sabha nomination from Madhya Pradesh — and later, a Cabinet ministerial berth. Scindia walked out of Congress along with 22 state […]
Srinagar- Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Wednesday dismissed a Public Interest Litigation by Kashmir lawyers Body, seeking a total ban on pellet guns as a means of crowd control and prosecution of those responsible for using the munitions during 2016 unrest in Jammu and Kashmir. So far as the constitutional tort was concerned, a division […]
Srinagar Government forces on Wednesday morning detected a live hand grenade at Barbershah area of Srinagar city. Official sources told news agency GNS that the grenade was detected by paramilitary CRPF in the area and Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) was immediately summoned to the spot. After being detected, the device was later destroyed without causing any damage […]
Ashraf Ghani signed a decree to facilitate the release of some Taliban prisoners in Afghan jails, a spokesman for his office said on Wednesday. “President Ghani has signed the decree that would facilitate the release of the Taliban prisoners in accordance with an accepted framework for the start of negotiation between the Taliban and the […]
J&K High Court on Tuesday directed the government to withdraw immediately the security personnel deputed in and around the residential houses of National Conference leader Mustafa Kamaal, president Awami National Conference Begum Khalida Shah and her son Muzaffar Shah. A division bench of Justice D S Thakur and Justice Sanjeev Kumar asked the government to […]
LG Murmu has recently directed the authorities to reach out to common people in Jammu and Kashmir as there has been lot of uncertainty and panic due to the growing threat of corona virus. Apart from helpline and setting up of control rooms even at the district levels, checkpoints and screening points have been set […]
An army soldier died due to cardiac arrest in Rangreth area of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday. A police official told news agency GNS that the soldier, M Paramaeswaran of 127 Light AD Regiment at Old Airfield Rangreth, was found dead today morning. He was immediately shifted to a nearby military health facility where he […]
Srinagar Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Baseer Khan has ordered closure of all anganwari centers across Kashmir till further orders. The closure of the centres is a preventive measure taken as part of Jammu and Kashmir government’s larger efforts to keep the children safe from the threat of coronavirus. KL