ACCRA/GENEVA Aug 18 (Reuters) Former United Nations Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kofi Annan has died at the age of 80, his foundation said on Saturday. Annan, a Ghanaian national, died in hospital in Bern, Switzerland, in the early hours of Saturday, two of his close associates said. In Geneva, the Kofi Annan Foundation […]
Islamabad: An Oxford educated and world renowned cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan was on Saturday sworn in as the 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan. Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain administered the oath to the 65-year-old former captain of Pakistan cricket team. Mr Khan took the oath in Urdu. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Khan was elected as […]
Kupwara: Two civilians have sustained injuries in Karnah after India Pakistan traded gunfire on late Friday night along Line Of Control at Karnah in northern Kashmirs Kupwara district. Injured has been identified as Jahangir Ahmad and Zameer Ahmad, but officials added that their injuries are not grievous “During heavy cross border shelling, some pieces or […]
Pulwama: Jana Begum 47, from Arbal village of Pulwama district in South Kashmir who had slipped in coma after government forces had allegedly barged in her house breathed her last today at SMHS hospital Srinagar. “After battling for four days she breathed her last at ICU hospital where she was at life support system,” […]
Srinagar: An army soldier was killed in an encounter at Kralgund area of Handwara in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Friday morning. A police officer said that army’s 32 RR launched a cordon-and-search-operation at Kachlu village during wee hours today. As such the cordon was laid and the troops intensified the searches, the militants opened fire […]
Srinagar: Joint Resistance Leadership on Friday called for a complete shutdown on August 26 and 27 against attempts to scrap state subject laws that give special status to state of Jammu and Kashmir in constitution of India barring non state subjects from buying property in the state. JRL comprising of Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar […]
Srinagar: A 38-year-old woman was shot dead by unknown gunmen at Drabgam area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Reports said that some unknown persons opened fire upon the woman Shameema wife of Ali Mohd Bhat near his parental home at Drabgam village this afternoon. Shameema, 38-years-old, a resident of Koil village was at parental home […]
Kupwara: District Magistrate(DM) Kupwara, Khalid Jahangir Thursday ordered directions for de-silting,cleaning of all filtration plants, service reservoirs, springs etc on immediate basis in the district as the district lab declared the samples taken from two sites as not fit for human consumption and diarrhea outbreak has been hit badly Jaggarpora, Kawari areas of Handwara […]
Pulwama: An elderly woman from Arbal village of Pulwama district in South Kashmir has slipped into coma at Shri Maharaja Hari Singh Hospital after she fell unconscious as Government forces stormed her house and allegedly ‘harassed the ladies’. “On Tuesday morning around 11:am government forces enter into the house Mohd Ashan Malik. They scaled walls […]
Kupwara: Four Army men have been injured in a gunfight between government forces and infiltrating militants in Nowgam sector along line of control in Kupwara district in north kashmir on Thursday. According to sources Army personnel of 8 Bihar regiment of Army intercepted a group of militants trying to infiltrate in Kashmir valley but were […]
