Srinagar: Facebook says it is investing $300 million over the next three years in news initiatives, with a focus on local news partnerships and other programs. The money will go toward reporting grants for local newsrooms, expanding Facebook’s program to help local newsrooms with subscription business models and investing in nonprofits aimed at supporting local news. […]
Srinagar: The Taliban issued a statement Tuesday threatening to end contact with the US even as Washington’s peace envoy makes another round of the region in pursuit of a negotiated end to Afghanistan’s protracted conflict before a frustrated President Donald Trump makes good on his 2016 campaign promise to end America’s involvement. Earlier in the […]
Srinagar: Chairman Muslims Muslim League, Mushtaq ul Islam was released after a prolonged detention by the authorities after he was booked under the Public Safety Act (PSA). In a statement, Muslim League spokesperson Mohammad Saad said that Islam reached his home after being released from the Haryana jail. The spokesman said that Islam was […]
Srinagar: Three Border Security Force (BSF) personnel and an army soldier, two of them critically, were injured in separate attacks by the Pakistani army in Rajouri and Kathua district. They were injured after the armies of India and Pakistan traded fire along the Line of Control (LoC) and international border in Rajouri and Kathua districts. […]
Jammu: Director General of Police Dilbag Singh has rewarded Constable/GD Irshad Ahmad of 168-BN BSF for his alertness and quick reaction to militant’s attack. Ahmad showed his alertness while on duty averted a major tragedy by his quick reaction to militants’ attack on January 7, 2019, police spokesman said The DGP accorded sanction to cash reward […]
Srinagar: Shopian district in southern Kashmir is observing a shutdown for 4th consecutive day today to mourn the killings of Al Badr commander Zeenat ul Islam and his aide in a gunfight with government forces. The mobile internet services also remained shut for the fourth day. Reports said that all shops and business establishments remained […]
Srinagar: The armies of India and Pakistan Tuesday exchanged heavy gunfire along the Line of Control in Sunderbani and Nowshera sectors of Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district. The firing, officials said, started today morning in Malla area of Rajouri district. The two armies later exchanged fire in Kalal area of Nowshera around 1 pm. In Rjouri, officials […]
Srinagar: Unknown persons forced entered into JK Bank branch Mandi in this district of Jammu division and ransacked property besides damaging CCTVs on intervening night of Jan 14 and 15. Whether or not the attackers decamped with any cash is being investigated, a police official told reporter. He said a case under relevant sections of […]
Srinagar A Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) died of heart attack along Line of Control (LoC) in Mankote sector of Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday. Official sources told news agency GNS that the army officer Naib Subedar Rajinder Singh of 5 Mahar regiment posted along LoC near Sonawali Gali in Mankote fell unconscious while performing […]
Srinagar: An intense cold wave hit Kashmir Valley Tuesday, leading to plummeting of night temperatures several notches below the freezing point An official of the MET Department told Kashmir Press that the weather would remain generally cloudy during the next 24 hours. The minimum temperature was minus 5.8 degrees Celsius in Srinagar on Monday while […]
