Srinagar: Pakistan’s foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi was all set to offer India a corridor for Sikh pilgrims to visit the Kartarpur Sahib shrine if he had met external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj in New York on 26 September, The Print reported on Sunday. But when India cancelled the talks Friday, within 24 hours of […]
JAMMU: As per Superintending Engineer Elect. Maintt & RE Circle, Kathua, to carry out the branch cutting of trees under the line corridor of 66 KV Changran Line, the shutdown of 66 KV Changran Line is being observed. During the shutdown, the power supply to Nagri, Barnoti, Palli, Nanan, Jakhbar, Saidpur, Kathua City, Ward No […]
Srinagar:A civilian Manzoor Ahmad Dar was injured on Sunday in clashes with forces in Tral, south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. The civilian was identified as Manzoor Ahmad Dar 25, son of Assadulla Dar, a resident of Gang Tral received bullet injury on his face. Doctors at the Tral Sub-district hospital said he had sustained a bullet […]
Srinagar:Two civilians were reported missing along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, police said Sunday. Ghulam Rasool and Bashir Ahmad, both residents of Sawjian sector, had gone for some work along the LoC on September 12 but did not return, an official said. He said the family members of the […]
Dubai: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani accused the United States of being a “bully” that wants to create insecurity in the Islamic Republic, a day after an attack on a military parade that killed 25 people, including 12 members of the country’s elite Revolutionary Guards. Speaking before leaving Tehran to attend the UN General Assembly in […]
Srinagar: A top commander of the Jaish-e-Mohammad outfit was killed in an encounter in Tral area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Sunday morning. A senior Police officer told GNS that a top militant commander of the Jaish-e-Mohammad outfit was killed in the gunfight. The body of the slain has been recovered along with a […]
Srinagar: Government forces burst teargas shells and resorted to lathicharge to disperse demonstrators trying to disrupt Cordon and Search Operation (CASO) in south Kashmir district of Pulwama on Sunday, official sources said. They said immediately after security forces launched CASO at Dar Ganai Gund, Tral, in Pulwama, hundreds of people, mostly youths, hit the streets in […]
Jammu: The higher reaches of Bhaderwah, Kishtwar and Doda on Sunday received season’s first snowfall while the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway was blocked due to landslide in Udhampur and Ramban districts. The upper reaches of Jammu region including Bhaderwah, Doda, Kishtwar have received first snowfall of the season as the rainfall continues since Saturday. People have […]
New Delhi: BJP chief Amit Shah on Saturday made a veiled attack on Congress president for making same cause with Pakistani leaders and wondered whether Rahul Gandhi is ‘forming’ an international Mahagathbandhan. “Rahul Gandhi says ‘Modi Hatao’. Pakistan says ‘Modi Hatao’. Now Pakistan also supports Rahul Gandhi’s baseless allegations against PM Modi,” Mr Shah tweeted […]
WASHINGTON: US forces acting in self defense called in an airstrike on al Shabaab militants in the southern Somalia province of Lower Juba, killing an estimated 18 Islamist extremists, US Africa Command said on Saturday. Somali government troops accompanying the US unit killed two other fighters of the al Qaeda-linked group with small arms fire […]
