Srinagar : Police on Monday recovered a body of the 32-year-old non-local labourer from a village in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Reports said that some locals spotted the body lying at Adgam today morning and informed the police station concerned accordingly. A police officer told news agency GNS that soon after receiving the information about it, a […]
Srinagar : The Karvan-e-Aman bus, operating between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistan-administered-Kashmir (PaK) resumed on Monday after remaining suspended for last eight weeks, official sources said. The weekly bus with three PaK residents left Srinagar this morning for Kaman post, the last Indian military post on this side of the Line of Control (LoC) […]
Srinagar : A complete shutdown is being observed on Monday in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district where polling polling is being held in the second leg of three-phased schedule for Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency. All shops and business establishments are closed while traffic was off the roads in the district. Earlier, clashes between youth and […]
Srinagar : As the polling for the second phase of the three-phase elections for Anantnag Lok Sabha seat is underway in Kulgam district on Monday, the Noorabad assembly segment reordered the highest turnout till 10:00 am and the overall percentage in the Kulgam district was recorded 2.8% till 10 am. As many as 4509 (5.9%) […]
Agencies London : India has dropped two places on a global press freedom index to be ranked 140th out of 180 countries in the annual Reporters Without Borders analysis released on Thursday, with the lead up to the ongoing Indian general elections flagged as a particularly dangerous time for journalists. The World Press Freedom Index […]
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir recorded nearly 38 per cent polling till 3 pm in Udhampur and Srinagar Lok Sabha constituencies, a poll official said. Udhampur Lok Sabha constituency recorded 58.13 percent polling, with Kathua district registering the highest of 64.6 percent polling till 3 pm, he said. Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency recorded 12.4 per cent […]
Agencies Srinagar : Three persons were injured on Thursday after government forces opened fire on protesters in Hafroo village of Chadoora area of Budgam district, amid the parliamentary elections in the two constituencies of the state. Reports said that protestors pelted stones on government forces deployed in the area for polling. The forces retaliated by […]
Agencies ISLAMABAD— Unidentified gunmen donning uniforms of paramilitary personnel Thursday shot dead at least 14 passengers after forcing them to disembark from buses on a highway in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province, in the latest targeted killing in the country. Around 15 to 20 gunmen stopped five to six buses travelling between Karachi and Gwadar. They […]
Sopore : SDPO Sopore Raja Majid Thursday said that during special operation, a gang comprising of four members were arrested by team of Sopore police. SDPO said that they recovered a fake AK-47 gun, one motorcycle and two cell phones from their procession which they were using to loot people in parts of Sopore. Police […]
SRINAGAR : Over twenty-nine percent votes were polled till 1 pm in Srinagar and Udhampur parliamentary seats of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. The polling percentage at 1 pm in Budgam is 11.4% followed by Ganderbal at 11.0% and Srinagar registered 4.8%. In Udhampur Parliamentary Constituency Reasi district recorded 49.2%, Kathua 49.7%, Udhampur district recorded […]