Srinagar: Riding high on back-to-back power performances from their star leg-spinner Rashid Khan, Afghanistan cricket team has already sealed the 3-match Twenty20 series by convincingly winning the first two matches against Bangladesh in Dehradun, India. Rashid Khan who claimed seven wickets from two matches was adjudged player of the match in both games. Afghanistan’s sensational […]
Authorities booked Ghulam Muhammad Khan Sopori and Farooq Tawheedi under Public Safety Act and shifted them to Kathua Jail. Ghulam Muhammad Khan Sopori is affiliated with People’s League and has spent more than 14 years in jail previously while Tawheedi is associated with Muslim Political League. Both Sopori and Tawheei were booked under PSA in […]
Srinagar: Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti has asked the rural development department to expand the scope of Himayat scheme to major towns and districts of the State. She also advised the department to select local partners in the placement of youth trained under the scheme. TheChief Minister made these interventions during a review meeting on the […]
Thousands of people attend funeral prayers of slain militants at Kulgam and Pulwama in South Kashmir on Wednesday a day after they were exhumed from Tangdhar yesterday night. Sources said that people from different areas thronged to their native villages and participated in funeral of slain Mudasir Ahmad and Shiraz Ahmad Sheikh. The duo were […]
Internet services Wednesday were suspended in some parts of south Kashmir hours after authorities handed over the two dead bodies claimed by locals in Pulwama and Kulgam districts Reports said the Internet service was snapped in the twin districts of Pulwama and Kulgam as a precautionary measure to avoid any disturbances. Earlier on Tuesday bodies […]
Srinagar: Former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah is now the Vice President of Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) while Sakina Ittoo will be party’s State Secretary. Party President Dr. Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday sanctioned approval to the nomination of office bearers for key party posts “to strengthen the organizational network and […]
A rifle-snatching bid by the militants at Hawal, Srinagar was foiled by police, reports said Reports said that militants had approached policeguard at Hawal guarding the Mirza Kamil Shrine with an intention to loot weapons. However, the alert sentry fired some shots forcing the militants to flee. Reports said that the area has been cordoned off to […]
On a complaint from the locals of Dalal Mohalla Nawab Bazar Police Station Maharaj Gunj with the assistance of Drugs and Food Control Organisation Kashmir Tuesday seized a ton of stale pickle from a pickle manufacturing unit in Dalal Mohalla, a police statement said on Tuesday. The unit is housed in a residential house and […]
Weather turned pleasant as strong winds followed by heavy showers brought the temperature many notches down much to the delight of the people in most parts of the Kashmir valley, where the Met department had predicted heat wave after the maximum temperature surged several notches above normal. Srinagar — where people were demanding summer vacations […]
At least 180 prisoners who had escaped from a jail during a raid were at large in the Nigerian city of Minna, a minister and prison authority official said on Monday, Reuters reported Gunmen attacked a medium security prison in the city in the central Nigerian state of Niger on Sunday around 8:00 p.m. Interior […]
