Srinagar: A- 50-year old man who was working in Irrigation and Flood Control Department died on Tuesday after falling from an under-construction building in Gandebral district of central Kashmir, officials said. Reports said that Zafarullah Bhat (50) son of Mohammed Maqbool Bhat, of Tulumulla Ganderbal fell from the 2nd storey of the under construction building […]
Jammu: An army soldier who was injured critically on Monday evening in Pakistani shelling at Shahpur sector along Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir succumbed to injuries today morning. Army spokesperson Lt Col Devender Anand said that the soldier Lance Naik Mohammad Jawed succumbed to injuries today morning. The soldier Jawed, […]
The United States appears focused on improving relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan for ending the Afghan war, shows a message US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad released on Monday. Khalilzad, a US diplomat of Afghan origin, said after a meeting with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in Kabul on Monday that the talks also focused on the […]
Srinagar: Five persons including a husband-wife duo and their son were admitted in a hospital in serious conditions after they consumed some poisonous substance mixed inadvertently with tea in Kunzer area of north Kashmir’s Tangmarg area. Reports said that the five persons consumed tea made by an elderly woman who mistook some poisonous substance to that […]
Jammu: Teams of firefighters from Indian Air Force and Army have been roped in to control the devastating fire that broke out on Tuesday morning in timber factory here in Toph Sherkhaniyan area, an official of Fire and Emergency Services said. He said that they received a message early morning in control room about the […]
Srinagar: A 3-year-old boy drowned after slipped into a stream in Beerwah area of central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Tuesday. Reports reaching GNS said that the boy Amir Ahmad Bhat (3) son of Zahoor Ahmad Bhat of Waragam Beerwah slipped into the stream on Monday evening when he was playing with other kids. Soon after […]
Srinagar: An analysis of hate speech and disinformation on the social networking site Facebook India by a South Asian American human rights and technology research organisation shows that the highest proportion of hate speech — 37 per cent — is linked to Islamophobia. This is followed by false news (16 per cent), and content that […]
Poonch: A day after Mendhar-Poonch road was suspended, authorities on Monday restored traffic on Krishna Ghati (KG) Top road in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir after BDS defused the suspicious object like IED in the area. Reports said that the forces found a steel box with a wire system lying near a culvert at KG […]
Srinagar: The Income Tax (I-T) department on Tuesday raided the office and other business locations linked to Deputy Mayor of Srinagar, Sheikh Imran in connection with bank case and undisclosed properties at Sonmarg, Pahalgam and Bangalore “The Income Tax Department conducted search and seizure operations on Tuesday on a prominent business group based in Srinagar, covering […]
BAMAKO: Nearly 100 people were killed in a gruesome overnight attack on a village in central Mali, in the latest violence to strike the fragile region, officials said on Monday. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the massacre, targeting a village inhabited by the Dogon community, bore the hallmarks of tit-for-tat ethnic attacks […]
