Srinagar: Unidentified persons during the intervening night of Sunday and Monday allegedly tried to set ablaze a polling station located at Auqaf building Tujgari mohalla in Nowhatta by throwing petrol on its entry gate. Reports said that, however, with the timely intervention of police, the building was secured from catching fire. Police officials said that […]
Srinagar: The armies of India and Pakistan on Monday morning exchanged heavy gunfire along the Line of Control in Kalal area of Naushera in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district. An official said that Pakistan violated ceasefire by targeting forward posts and villages in Kalal area of Naushera sector in Rajouri district. He said that the Indian […]
Srinagar: Government forces Monday morning launched a Cordon and Search Operation in Rather Mohalla of Bugam village in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district. Official sources said that acting on specific inputs about presence of militants in the area, a joint team of forces including 9 RR, paramilitary CRPF and Jammu and Kashmir police’s SOG launched a […]
Srinagar: Seven children were killed and 10 more wounded on Sunday when an unexploded mortar shell blew up in eastern Afghanistan. The incident appears to be the latest instance of discarded ordnance claiming civilian lives, in a country littered with landmines, homemade bombs and old shells, Associated Press reported. Assadullah Dawlatzai, the Laghman governor’s spokesman, […]
New York: The world’s largest aeroplane by wingspan has taken flight for the first time. Built by Stratolaunch, the company set up by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in 2011, the aircraft is designed to act as a flying launch pad for satellites, said a BBC News report. The idea is to fly the […]
Jammu: Leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha and General Secretary AICC Ghulam Nabi Azad on Sunday said that Modi govt has weakened the democratic and constitutional institutions established and strengthened in the country for the past seven decades by the successive governments right down from Jawahar Lal Nehru regime. Remembering the Architect of Constitution of […]
Srinagar: A 35-year-old person from Nowpora Jageer area of Kreeri in Baramulla district of north Kashmir has gone missing, police and family sources said on Sunday. They said the man—Waseem Ahmad Lone son of Bashir Ahmad Lone left home in his new vehicle for Srinagar to buy some electronic goods on April 13 but failed […]
Srinagar: National Conference (NC) President Farooq Abdullah on Sunday said that Prime minsiter Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah are the biggest enemies of people who believe in dividing the nation on basis of caste, creed and religion saying that people have made it a point not to fall prey to the divisive agenda […]
SRINAGAR: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president and former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday termed PDP’s self rule formula the most pragmatic approach to resolve the decades old Kashmir conflict and reiterated that peace will remain elusive in the state unless peoples’ aspirations aren’t taken into account by both India and Pakistan. Addressing worker’s convention […]
Srinagar: An army Major who was injured critically late Saturday night after he slipped into a deep gorge in upper reaches of Kumkadi forests in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district succumbed to injuries. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Kupwara Ambarkar Shriram Dinkar confirmed to GNS that the officer of Major rank succumbed in army’s 92 base […]
