Srinagar: The Pakistan accountability court on Monday sentenced former prime minister Nawaz Sharif to seven years in prison and slapped a fine of $25 million in Al Azizia corruption case. However, the former premier was acquitted in Flagship Investment reference, Pakistan Today reported Earlier on Sunday, Nawaz Sharif arrived in Islamabad ahead of the verdict. Upon […]
Hyderabad: Member of Parliament and AIMIM president Assaduddin Owaisi took to Twitter to hit out at Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan over the latter’s remark that he would show the Narendra Modi government “how to treat minorities”. In a tweet on Sunday, Owaisi said Khan should instead take a lesson from India’s inclusive politics and minority […]
Srinagar:The casual labourers of Public Health Engineering department Monday held a protest demonstration in Srinagar demanding release of their pending wages. Scores of protesting employees assembled in press enclave and chanted slogans against the Public Health Engineering Department. The protesters said that they have not been paid for past several months. President of the union, […]
Sopore:Several patients along with their attendants and locals in north Kashmir’s Sopore took out a protest demonstration outside ”Mother and Child Hospital” in Sopore against the shortage of doctors. Reports said that protest demonstration was held against the health department and the protesters blocked the road outside MCH hospital Sopore and demanded immediate redressal of […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir police on Monday said that it arrested three gamblers in Lalchowk area of Srinagar in Kashmir’s capital city. A police officials said that a police party of Police Station Kothi Bagh raided and apprehended three gamblers who were cheating common masses at Abi Guzar area. “They were found playing Lottery/Gambling inside […]
JAMMU: J&K Taxes Department on Sunday exposed a major tax evasion during an inspection to the Silk Expo at Jehlum Resort, Jammu and sealed the company to stop further tax evasion. The team noticed that a total value of the material for sale was disclosed at Rs 18 lacs only by the company but the […]
Srinagar: Tral township of southern Kashmir’s Pulwama district is observing a shutdown for the third consecutive day on Monday against the killing of six militants in a gunfight in Armpora village on Saturday. “All shops and other businesses establishments are shut while traffic is off the roads in Tral township and adjoining areas,” eyewitnesses said. […]
Srinagar:One person died and five others suffered injuries on Monday after a private vehicle collided with a passenger vehicle near Gund Thethar area of Ramban district on Srinagar-Jammu highway. The deceased, a resident of Kishtwar, has been identified as Muhammad Abdullah. Earlier, a bus carrying ITBP soldiers rolled down into a gorge near Khuni Nallah […]
Srinagar: A leopard, believed to be a man-eater after it killed two boys recently, was shot dead in a village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district, officials said on Monday. The fully-grown leopard had killed eight-year-old Rehmat Ali and Wasim Akram (3) in the district’s Mahore belt on December 8 and 17, respectively. The authorities had […]
Srinagar: Authorities Monday ordered closure of schools in areas near Line of control in Keri and Lam village in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir. The order came after India and Pakistan armies exchanged fire in Lam, Pukharni and Peer Badaser areas of Nowshera of Rajouri. “Immediate closure of schools in 0-5 KMs area of LoC in Keri […]
