Srinagar: Six people including a paramilitary personnel were injured in a grenade attack in south Kashmir’s Anantnag Thursday. Reports said that suspected militants hurled a grenade on Sher Bagh police post which missed the target and exploded on the road. Initial reports said that five civilians including three women and a CRPF personnel suffered […]
Srinagar: Fresh snowfall blanketed Kashmir Valley on Thursday while rains lashed Jammu region even as Met has forecast improvement from Friday. The minimum temperature in Srinagar was minus 0.3 degrees Celsius while in Pahalgam and Gulmarg it was minus 2.7 and minus 6, respectively. Leh in Ladakh region recorded minus 9.1, Kargil minus 18.4 and Drass […]
Srinagar: India has objected to the United Kingdom for allowing Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi to hold a conference on Kashmir in the House of Commons during his visit to London this weekend. Economic Times reported that New Delhi has conveyed these through diplomatic channels after it emerged that the Pakistan foreign minister will hold […]
Srinagar:India summoned Pakistan High Commissioner Sohail Mahmood late Wednesday night over a phone call by the country’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi to Hurriyat Conference (M) chairperson Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Tuesday for discussions on Kashmir. However, Islamabad justified its engagement with Hurriyat Conference leader, with the Pakistan Foreign Ministry saying it “categorically rejects the objections […]
Srinagar: The death toll after two migrant boats sank in heavy seas off the coast of Djibouti has risen to 43, the UN migration agency said on Wednesday, with scores still feared missing. Search and rescue teams met with grim scenes of bodies strewn across the beach at Obock, a port town down the coast […]
Srinagar: Authorities on Thursday shut the Kashmir highway for vehicular traffic after fresh snowfall and landslides at different places on the arterial highway. A traffic department official said that the roads have turned slippery due to fresh snowfall at Banihal while landslides have blocked the road at some places in Ramban. The official said that […]
Srinagar: A guard room located outside residential quarter of a senior police officer at Tulsibagh here, caught fire on Wednesday night. Official sources said that fire erupted from the guard room, housing SSB men, and flames could be seen from a distance. It created panic in the VIP area. A police official confirming that incident […]
Brussels: Germany is planning to shut down all its coal-fired power plants by 2038 to replace them mainly by renewable sources of energy, however experts and politicians question the feasibility of new ways of powering the biggest European economy and call for a more diversified energy mix. The statement that Germany will close all its […]
Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Wednesday asked the Government of India (GoI) as to why a phone call to him by Pakistan’s foreign minister has irked it as it is a known fact that Pakistan is a party to (Kashmir) dispute. “What are they (GoI) objecting to?” Mirwaiz said while addressing the […]
Srinagar: Lt Gen Ranbir Singh, Northern Army Commander arrived in the Kashmir Valley on Wednesday to review the prevailing security situation in the region. During the visit, the Army Commander was briefed by the Chinar Corps Commander, Lt Gen AK Bhatt, at Badami Bagh Cantonment on the major operational, informational, logistical and administrative aspects pertaining to […]
