Srinagar: No fresh vehicle was allowed to ply on Saturday on the national highway as Jammu bound vehicles, stranded since yesterday are being cleared, a traffic police official said. Civilian traffic resumed only on Thursday after remaining suspended on Wednesday due to ban imposed by the authorities as a precautionary measure to allow free and […]
Srinagar: The department of tourism has decided to run musical fountain and laser show in Dal Lake, three times each evening. Secretary Tourism Rigzin Samphel said they were encouraged by the huge response from the locals that the department decided to run the show in three shifts 15 minutes duration each from 7 pm every […]
Srinagar: At least two militants were killed during a brief shoot out with government forces in south Kashmir’ Shopian district, police sources said. “Following a brief shoot out in the orchard area of Gahand village the two militants were killed,” sources said. Giving details about the encounter, sources said on a tip off about the […]
Srinagar: Encounter rages between militants and government forces in Gahand area of South Kashmir’s Shopian district on Saturday morning. Reports said that a joint team of Army’s 34RR and SOG Shopian launched a cordon and search operation in Guhand. A senior police officer said that on a specific information the forces cordoned off an orchard […]
Srinagar: Mayor Srinagar, Junaid Matoo has been directed by an election official to deposit all the smart phones he distributed among the municipal corporators as it was a clear violation of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC). The Nodal officer MCC acted after a complaint was filed by one Showket Ahmad Mir, chief election agent […]
Handwara: Locals of Mandigam, Qaziabad area here in this north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Friday said that paramilitary CRPF personnel killed 13-year-old boy Danish in “target firing” after 2 to 4 children “yelled and threw stones at them in fun” and asked whether the paramilitary personnel have no children of their own that they killed […]
Srinagar: Strongly condemning the Enforcement Directorate (ED) notice to daughters of jailed pro-freedom leader Shabir Ahmad Shah, Chairman Hurriyat Conference (G), Syed Ali Geelani said that “Indian rulers are using their investigative agencies as a war weapon to strangulate the people in general and pro-freedom workers and leaders in particular”. He said that Shabir Ahmad […]
Srinagar: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national General Secretary Ram Madhav on Friday interacted with the first voters in Srinagar and told them that casting ballots was the festivity of democracy. Madhav who had arrived Srinagar for just an hour or two interacted with almost 200 first time voters in a hotel here and asked them […]
Chaibasa: Ultras belonging to the CPI maoists carried out a blast to destroy three buildings of the forest department at Kuida forest under Goilkera Police Station area of the West Singhbhum district. After executing the blast, the Maoists also pasted posters at the spot through which they called for for vote boycott. Later a team […]
New Delhi: Russia on Friday announced conferring of its highest civilian award ‘Order of Saint Andrew The Apostle’ on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A decree from the Russian President Vladimir Putin’s office said the prestigious award has been given to Mr Modi for “distinguished achievement in development of the Special and Privileged Strategic Partnership between […]
