Srinagar, Dec 2: Jammu and Kashmir reported 452 new novel coronavirus cases in last 24 hours, taking the number of the infected persons to 111130, officials said on Wednesday. Besides, six more people died due to the deadly virus. With 15 travelers among them, they said, 258 were from Jammu Division while 194 from Kashmir […]
Kupwara, Dec 2: A Border Security Forces’ soldier shot himself dead in north-Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Wednesday morning, officials said. They said that the soldier identified as Head Constable Bharinder Singh of 118 Battallion shot himself with his service rifle, while on duty in Tanghdar area of the district. The cause of him taking this […]
Uri (Baramulla), Dec 02: Police on Wednesday arrested an army soldier for allegedly molesting a 36-year-old woman here at Paranpeelan area of Uri in this north-Kashmir district. A senior police official said that an army soldier belonging to 173 TA of Engineering section identified as Hawaldar Parvaiz Hussain presently attached with 18 MLI Bandi in […]
Srinagar, Dec 01: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President and former chief minister, Mehbooba Mufti Tuesday said the ‘participation’ of regional mainstream political parties was a must to avoid being labeled as ‘Pakistani agents’. Mehbooba expressed ‘displeasure’ for allegedly being labeled as Pakistani agent, saying her late father and PDP founder, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed faced ‘social boycott’ […]
Srinagar, Dec 01: The Jammu & Kashmir government on Tuesday set the ball rolling for implementation of Forest Rights Act-2006 in the Union Territory. To begin with, the administration has constituted a Union Territory level monitoring committee, district level committee(s) and sub-divisional level committee(s) for implementation of law in the UT. According to an order, […]
Srinagar, Dec 01 (KNO): State Election Commissioner K K Sharma has said that phase two of the District Development Councils (DDC) polls recorded 33.34 percent polling in Kashmir while 65.5 in Jammu. Addressing a press conference here, Sharma said that phase two elections for DDCs remained peaceful and the total voting percentage remained at 48.62 percent. […]
Srinagar, December 01:A 24 year old man was critically injured after unknown gunmen fired upon him in Buchpora area of Central Kashmir’s Srinagar district on Tuesday evening. A senior police officer said that militants fired upon a man identified as Nadif Khan son of Muhammad Hanief Khan resident of Bilal colony Soura in Buchpora, leaving […]
Poonch, Dec 1: An Assistant Sub Inspector of BSF was killed in snipper fire by Pakistan along LOC in Tarkundi area of Balakote Sector in Poonch district on Tuesday. SHO Mendhar Manzoor Ahmad Kohli confirmed that Assistan Sub Inspector was killed. He identified him as P. Jatha of 59 Bn BSF. (GNS)
Jammu, Nov 30: Govt forces noticed a suspicious movement of a ‘Pakistani jet’ along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Monday morning, officials said. A security official said that a chain of smoke was noticed in Poonch sector and which seemed to have a Pakistani jet. “The smoke chain […]
Srinagar, Nov 30: As the night temperature settled at minus 1.6 degree Celsius in Srinagar today, the weatherman on Monday predicted ‘very harsh winter’ this year in the Valley, stating that as per the forecast, they are expecting below normal temperature this winter. The weatherman has also predicted fresh wet spell here in the Valley […]
