Srinagar: Security forces in Saudi Arabia on Sunday foiled an attempted terror attack on an office of state security north of the kingdom’s capital. Initial reports indicated that security troops had killed four armed men as they tried to storm an investigation centre of the General Directorate of Public Security in the town of Al […]
Srinagar: The residents of Ashtangoo area of northern Kashmir’s Bandipora district Monday staged a protest and blocked traffic on Bandipora-Sopore road against the power crisis in the area. The protesters said that the administration was not attending to their grievances and as such they were facing immense hardships. “For the last one month there is no electricity […]
Srinagar: A truck moving from Srinagar to Jammu caught fire on the Kashmir highway near Qazigund in Kulgam district in the wee hours on Monday. Reports said that the driver and conductor of the vehicle had a narrow escape. They said that a truck, bearing registration no JK05A-8795 caught fire near Panzath in Qazigund and was […]
Doha: Upcoming talks between the Taliban and the United States will focus on the timetable for pulling out all foreign troops from Afghanistan, according to a senior Taliban member. Speaking to international news agency AFP, the Taliban’s political spokesman Suhail Shaheen said previous negotiations with Washington saw the two sides agree to a total withdrawal, […]
Jammu: District Anantnag is going to polls first in the three-phase schedule for Anantnag Parliamentary constituency on April 23 from 7 AM to 4 PM. The District is spread over 6 Assembly segments comprising Anantnag, Dooru, Kokernag, Shangus, Bijbehara and Pahalgam. This South Kashmir District has 529256 electors including 269603 males, 257540 females, 2102 service […]
Srinagar: Aspirants appearing for the Probationary Officers examination of Jammu and Kashmir Bank Monday said that army is not allowing them to move on the highway while their convoys move, resulting in an inordinate delay to reach examination centers. “We left home around 6:30 am for examination centers in Srinagar and it would have normally […]
Shopian: Government forces on Monday morning laid a siege to Awend Rawalpora area of South Kashmir’s Shopian district. Following inputs about the presence of militants in the area, reports said, that a joint team of government forces including 34 RR, paramilitary CRPF and SOG of Jammu and Kashmir police launched searches in the area. They said […]
Colombo: Sri Lankan police have arrested 13 men in connection with bomb blasts on churches and hotels as the death toll mounted to 290, a police spokesman said Monday. More than 500 people were wounded in the blasts, he added, in the deadliest violence since the end of the country’s long-running civil war a decade […]
Colombo: More than 200 people, including 22 foreigners, were killed and over 400 in a series of blasts in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, hospitals and police officials said, the worst outbreak of violence since the end of the civil war a decade ago. According to media reports, at about 0845 hrs, at least eight […]
Srinagar: A study has provided evidence of the presence of the endangered Kashmir musk deer in Nepal, with the identification extending the fanged deer species’ range from India, Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan to now the rugged mountains of western Nepal. The study by Nepali and Chinese researchers identified and probed three musk deer lineages from […]
