Srinagar: The residents of Srinagar continued to experience respite from intense cold, but the rest of Kashmir reeled under sub-zero temperatures, a meteorological department official said Thursday. The city recorded a low of 0.2 degrees Celsius on Wednesday night, an increase of 0.2 degrees from the previous night, the official said. Qazigund in south Kashmir […]
Srinagar: The death toll from the collapse of a Russian apartment building has risen to 37 after more bodies were discovered by crews searching the huge pile of concrete rubble. State news agency Tass cited an emergencies ministry official on Thursday as saying four people who lived in the collapsed section of the building in Magnitogorsk […]
Poonch: Body of a youth was found under suspicious conditions in Medhar area of Poonch in Jammu division on Thursday, officials said. They said that soon after receiving the report, SHO Inayat Ahmad led a police party and reached the spot near a service station where the youth, a B.Ed student, was found on the […]
Srinagar: The US wants a “great relationship” with Pakistan but cannot do so as the country “houses enemies”, President Donald Trump has said in his first comments in 2019 on America’s strained ties with Islamabad, months after he stopped USD 1.3 billion in military aid to its former ally. Speaking to his Cabinet colleagues on Wednesday, […]
Srinagar: Several civilians have suffered injuries in clashes with government forces in Tral area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district Thursday morning. Violent clashes erupted in several areas of the township including the main town soon after a gunfight broke out between the militants and the forces in Gulshanpora area. Reports said that forces fired pellets on […]
Srinagar: It has been long since the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) stopped taking demonetised currency notes but many people still hold old and invalid currency notes. Devotees on a Sri Mata Vaishno Devi pilgrimage have been found offering demonetised currency notes at the cave shrine in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir. Vaishno Devi, which […]
Washington: The US would pull out its troops from Syria slowly over a period of time and will protect its Kurdish allies, President Donald Trump has said, summing up the situation in the war-torn country as “sand and death”. President Trump did not give a timetable for the planned military exit from Syria. Last month, he […]
Srinagar:The Pakistan army has invited India to table for dialogue to resolve all the pending issues including the 70 years long pending dispute of Kashmir, the News International reported on Thursday. Major General Asif Ghafoor, the army’s spokesperson, in an interview with a private news channel while inviting India to table said it was India […]
Srinagar: A fierce encounter broke out between militants and government forces in Tral area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district Thursday morning. The Jammu and Kashmir police tweeted: “Exchange of fire between security forces & militants at higher reaches of Tral Awantipora. Further details will follow.”Earlier reports said that a joint team of army’s 42RR and SOG […]
Srinagar: A Chinese spacecraft has become the first craft ever to land on the “far side” of the moon, according to state-run media, in a giant leap for human space exploration. The China National Space Administration (CNSA) landed the robotic probe, Chang’e 4 in the unexplored South Pole-Aitken basin, the largest, oldest, deepest, crater on […]
