Srinagar: Three bodies were reciovered and three policemen trapped inside their post under a snow avalanche near Jawahar Tunnel on Srinagar-Jammu National Highway were rescued on Friday. Efforts are on to rescue the four other policemen still feared to be trapped there. The rescue teams faced lot of difficulty in reaching the avalanche site Friday […]
Srinagar: Irshad Rasool Kar, former PDP district president of Baramulla in Jammu and Kashmir, Friday joined the National Conference in presence of party president Farooq Abdullah at his residence here. NC vice president Omar Abdullah and other senior leaders were also present to welcome Kar into the party. Kar, son of Congress stalwart late Ghulam […]
Srinagar: Two non-local labourers have died after landslides hit Ramban district on Kashmir highway. Reports said that two residents of West Bengal died after landslides struck the highway between Battery Cheshma and Maroog areas. They said that the duo were walking when the landslides triggered by incessant rains and snowfall hit the road. The bodies […]
Srinagar: National Conference working president and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah Friday said he would like to see how those aligned with the BJP would explain reports that the Defence Ministry had protested over the mechanism being adopted by the PMO for the Rafale deal. He had tagged a document, purportedly of […]
Srinagar: One policeman has been rescued alive from the snow avalanche that hit Jawahar Tunnel on Thursday evening. Ten people including eight cops and two prisoners were buried alive in the avalanche. The rescued cop has been identified as SPO Gulzar Ahmad. Rescue operation to find the other nine has been intensified.
Srinagar: A residential house was partially damaged due to snowfall in Pampore village of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Locals said that due to heavy snowfall the house of Abdul Rashid Najar son of Ghulam Mohammad, a resident of Andrusoo Pampore, got partially damaged Friday morning. However the family members escaped unhurt in the incident and were […]
Srinagar: A residential house was damaged during the intervening night of Thursday and Friday in Reshimuqam village in Sheeri area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Locals said that the double story residential house of Syed Shabir Hussain got damaged after its rooftop collapsed due to heavy snowfall. More details are awaited.
Srinagar: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told a top aide in 2017 that he would use “a bullet” on Jamal Khashoggi, a journalist who was murdered last October, if the latter did not return to the Kingdom and end his criticism of the Saudi government, a New York Times report said. The conversation, […]
New Delhi: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Friday said the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) was directly involved in conducting negotiations with the French side on the Rafale deal and Prime Minister Narendra Modi was “guilty” in the scam. It is an open and shut case, Gandhi said, mounting a fresh attack on the government on […]
Srinagar: The US military strategy for South Asia includes assuring Pakistan that its “equities” are acknowledged and addressed in any future agreement in Afghanistan, says a key American general. Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee earlier this week, Gen Joseph Votel also said that “some military cooperation activities” between the US and Pakistan have continued […]
