Early morning blaze guts residential houses, cowshed in Kangan

Early morning blaze guts residential houses, cowshed in Kangan

Srinagar: Intense blaze on Thursday gutted two residential houses and a cowshed in Kangan area of Ganderbal district. Reports said that in Surfraw village of Kangan, a fire broke out in the residential house of Abdul Rahman Khatana, son of Goga Khatana and Shabir Ahmad Khatana, son of Abdul Aziz Khatana, at Gujar Pati resulting […]

Speeding school bus crushes elderly man to death in Lolab

Speeding school bus crushes elderly man to death in Lolab

Srinagar: An elderly man was on Thursday morning killed while three other pedestrians suffered injuries after a School bus hit them at Doniwari village in Lolab area of Kupwara district. Witnesses said that the driver of the school bus bearing registration number JK09 -9261 and belonging to Shah Anwar Memorial Trust Khumriyal, lost control of the […]

Low intensity earthquake felt in Jammu and Kashmir

Srinagar: A low-intensity earthquake measuring 3.2 on the Richter scale was felt in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday. No casualty or damage was reported. Reports quoting disaster management officials said that the tremors were felt at 8.34 am at a depth of five kilometres under the earth’s surface. The epicentre of the earthquake was in […]

Delhi woman accuse ‘J&K policeman’ of rape, robbery

Delhi woman accuse ‘J&K policeman’ of rape, robbery

Srinagar: A Delhi woman has alleged a Jammu and Kashmir Police Constable of raping and robbing her over a false promise of marrying her. The woman has also filed an FIR in Vasant Kunj police station in New Delhi. The woman, according to reports, met the accused Adil Hassan through a dating site, BigoLive, in […]

23-yr-old electrocuted in Rajouri

23-yr-old electrocuted in Rajouri

Srinagar: A 23-year-old man was electrocuted in Mangrote village of Rajouri district in Jammu and Kashmir Wednesday night. Identified as Ghulam Abbas, the slain received an electric shock while repairing a transformer installed by the Power Development Department (PDD) in the area. Abbas died on the spot after receiving severe burn injuries.

Government sets up JKIDFC, infuses Rs 8000 crores for infrastructure projects

Government sets up JKIDFC, infuses Rs 8000 crores for infrastructure projects

Srinagar:  The government has set up a J&K Infrastructure Development Finance Corporation (JKIDFC) through which it will spend up to Rs 8000 Crore on completing unfinished/languishing infrastructure projects which are there all over the State. The government said many of the projects started years ago are still incomplete due to which people are facing  great inconvenience. […]

Pompeo, Qureshi underscore need to ‘reset US-Pak bilateral ties’

Pompeo, Qureshi underscore need to ‘reset US-Pak bilateral ties’

Islamabad: US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Wednesday held the opening round of talks between the two countries at the Foreign Office in Islamabad, where the two delegations discussed “bilateral, regional and international issues”. US military chief Gen Joseph Dunford also accompanied Pompeo on his short visit […]

Mother dies, son among three injured in road accident

Mother dies, son among three injured in road accident

Srinagar: A lady died and three others sustained injuries after they met with an accident in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Wednesday.   Reports said that a Vehicle on lost his control over the vehicle and hit a woman identified as Rubeena and her 10-year-old child Muhammad Sarwar, near Hanjiwera Pattan, resulting into the death […]

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