Srinagar: Girish Karnad, a celebrated actor, playwright and filmmaker, died at 81 today after a long illness. He died at a hospital in Bengaluru at 6.30 am, according to his family. Known for a critically-acclaimed body of work that included plays like “Yayati”, “Hayavadana” and “Tughlaq”, all of which were written in Kannada and then translated […]
Almaty: Kazakhstan on Sunday elected the hand-picked successor of former president Nursultan Nazarbayev with 70 per cent of the vote, exit polls showed, as police arrested hundreds of opposition protesters. The victory of career diplomat Kassym Jomart-Tokayev was never in doubt after he received the blessing of powerful Nazarbayev, who had led the Central Asian nation […]
FUKUOKA: The world’s top financial policymakers admitted on Sunday that trade tensions had worsened and posed a risk for the global economy, after a G20 meeting that laid bare differences between the United States and other nations. Following 30 hours of wrangling in what one official described as a “tense” atmosphere, G20 finance minister and […]
Gunshots were heard during a cordon and search operation launched by the government forces in Akingam village of southern Anantnag district Monday morning. Sources said that acting on inputs about the presence of militants in the village, a joint contingent of government forces laid a siege to the village. They said that as the siege […]
Srinagar: Two Kashmiri dentists namely Dr Adil Malik (MDS Oral Maxillofacial Pathology) and Dr Asiya Basheer (MDS Pedodontics) have been awarded in Venus International Dentistry awards- 2019, held at Chennai. The Venus International Dentistry Awards – VIDA -2019(is a part of the Annual Dentistry Summit – ADS) ‘Acknowledges and Celebrates the Role of Extraordinary Dental […]
Jammu: An Army Major was among five persons suffered injuries while his wife died in car-truck collision near Katra in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir. “A truck this afternoon collided with car at Manghal near Katra town,” police here said. They said that an officer namely Major Kartik, who is posted in Akhnoor area […]
Srinagar: In a strong reaction of Indian Prime Minister, in Maldives, pertaining to Kashmir issue, Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman, Syed Ali Geelani termed it as a blatant negation of the hard facts of history of Indian division of 1947. Vehemently disproving arguments put forward by Prime Minister Narinder Modi regarding the position of India on […]
Poonch: A family from Poonch on Sunday urged authorities to take measures to bring body of their kin who was allegedly murdered by his maternal uncle in Saudi Arabia on the night of June 2. Javid Iqbal, a resident of Banola Mendhar in Poonch told GNS that his younger brother Zaffar Iqbal (23) was killed on […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Police on Sunday sought help of the general public in tracing out a missing girl of Bomai area of Sopore in Baramulla district of north Kashmir. Police has identified the missing girl as Sabreena Amin (19) daughter of Mohammad Amin Bhat resident of Darpora Bomai, Sopore. Police said that her father […]
Washington: Turkey has been given a deadline of the end of July to choose between buying US fighter jets and Russian anti-aircraft missile systems. Acting US Defence Secretary Patrick Shanahan set out the ultimatum in a letter to his Turkish counterpart, Hulusi Akar, according to a BBC News report. Turkey, he said, could not have […]
