Srinagar: Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) has claimed eight grenade attacks across Kashmir on Friday. A spokesperson of JeM in a statement issued to GNS said its men carried out grenade attack at police station Srigurwara area of Anantnag in which “one personnel was killed and several others injured”. He said JeM carried out grenade attack on security forces’ […]
Srinagar: A police constable was wounded as two grenade blasts rattled soth Kashmir’s Islamabad town Friday afternoon. A grenade attack took place at a police post at Bus stand Islamabad in which a police constable Sajad Ahmad was wounded. The injured policeman was shifted to a nearby hospital for treatment. Minutes before, the militants hurled […]
Srinagar: Around 2 lakh leprosy cases continue to be reported every year in the world with India accounting for more than half of them, the WHO said Friday, adding leprosy-related “discrimination, stigma and prejudice” were the most powerful barriers in ending the disease. WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia Poonam Khetrapal Singh also lauded India […]
New Delhi: The CBI and Enforcement Directorate Friday asserted before the Delhi High Court that custodial interrogation of Congress leader and former Union minister P Chidambaram was required in the INX Media cases. The submission was made before Justice Sunil Gaur who was hearing the plea of Chidambaram seeking anticipatory bail in the corruption and […]
Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference (M) chairperson Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Friday questioned the silence of rights organisations across the globe and in India that stand for upholding the rights of prisoners especially those that are in prisons for their political beliefs as the political prisoners from J&K. Addressing Friday congregation at historic Jama Masjid Mirwaiz said it is […]
Srinagar: A man died and seven others including a policeman were injured in two separate accidents in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district, police said Friday. A person died and four others were injured when their car skidded off the road and rolled down into a gorge on Ramban-Gool road near Dharamkund, they said. In a separate […]
Srinagar: Passengers stranded in Jammu due to highway blockade on Friday protested urging government to take immediate steps to clear the road and to help the families stranded in Jammu. “Government should air lift stranded passengers as there are women and children who are suffering badly,” protesters said. The Srinagar Jammu highway has been closed five days […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Friday arrested JKLF chairperson Yasin Malik from city centre in Srinagar. Reports said that a posse of police reached the office of Malik at Abi Guzar in Lalchowk and detained him immediately after Friday congregational prayers. Malik has been shifted to Sub-Jail Kothi Bagh.
Srinagar: The government in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has decided to convert a historic fort built by a Sikh commander into a museum. The fort in Haripur district was named after Hari Singh Nalwa, the commander-in-chief of the Sikh Khalsa Army, the army of the Sikh Empire. The fort was built by Nalwa in 1822 over […]
Srinagar: Composer Rohail Hyatt is all set to return to Coke Studio as the producer five years after he parted ways from the widely acclaimed Pakistani television programme and international music franchise, Express Tribune reported. Multiple sources have confirmed that Hyatt is set to return toCoke Studioas the producer after a gap of five years. Zohaib […]
