After iOS and Android, Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp is now rolling out “Picture in Picture (PiP) mode” for web users that will allow them to view videos within a chat window, without opening third party pages or apps. The feature comes as part of the 0.3.2041 update along with new improvements and security fixes, WABetaInfo, […]
Poonch: Government forces Monday launched a massive cordon and search operation in Manjkote area of Poonch district following “suspicious movement” of militants. Official sources said that army’s 37 and 39 RR, SOG of Jammu and Kashmir police launched the joint operation amid reports of suspicious movement of militants in the area. SHO Mendhar Inayat Ahmad […]
Sumbal: A complete shutdown is being observed in Sumbal town of northern Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Monday against the arrest of a local youth by Dehli police. Scores of people led by traders federation Sumbal took out a protest march holding placards demanding release of the local youth Hilal Ahmad. Eyewitnesses said that all business establishments, […]
Srinagar: As the United States and the Taliban are closing in on a deal to end the 17-year-long war in Afghanistan, the Pakistan military hopes that after the restoration of peace, the Kabul administration would act against the groups using the Afghan soil as a springboard for launching attacks in Pakistan. “We hope that after the […]
Srinagar: Mercury on Monday dipped to lowest in Drass town of Jammu and Kashmir with minimum temperature plunging to minus 31.4 degrees Celsius. Kashmir Meteorological Office said that the clear skies led to return of severe cold wave in the state particularly Kashmir valley. The neighbouring town of Drass, Leh recorded a recorded a minimum […]
The Editors Guild of India (EGI) Monday termed the barring of Kashmir journalists from R-Day venue in Srinagar as an “unprecedented state-sponsored attack on press freedom”, even as it demanded an inquiry into “how such lapses were allowed to take place.” In a statement, EGI condemned “the arbitrary manner in which several senior journalists of […]
Srinagar: Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Ameer Sirajul Haq has said that the past governments, as well as the present government, only verbally terms Kashmir as its jugular vein. Addressing the ‘Yakjehati Kashmir Conference’ on Sunday, he said that the JI would observe February 5 with great enthusiasm to express solidarity with the innocent Kashmiris who are facing […]
Srinagar:The Jammu-Srinagar highway was Monday opened for one-way traffic, officials said. On Monday, they said, the vehicles will ply from Jammu to Srinagar. Besides 3,000 trucks carrying essential supplies, scores of valley-bound passenger vehicles are stranded on the highway. The official said that no vehicle will be allowed to move from Srinagar to Jammu.
Srinagar: A Jammu and Kashmir Policeman shot himself dead in Budgam Monday morning. He was identified as Mohammad Shafi Mir, 45, son of Mohammad Ismail Mir, a resident of Sadoora in south Kashmir’s Kulgam. Mir was posted at district police lines in central Kashmir’s Budgam.
Srinagar: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti said that Governor Satya Pal Malik’s decision to reverse her government’s order to exempt women from paying stamp duty on property registration, had negated her efforts toward women empowerment. “As far as empowering women is concerned, all our efforts are negated by the Governors recent decision. One […]
