New Delhi: Four medium intensity tremors with magnitudes ranging between 4.7 and 5.5 hit Jammu and Kashmir in a span of less than two hours on Monday night, the National Centre for Seismology said. The first quake with a magnitude of 4.7 hit at 10:42 pm, followed by one measuring 5.5 six minutes later. The […]
New Delhi: Army Chief Gen Bipin Rawat was on Monday appointed India’s first Chief of Defence Staff with a mandate to bring in convergence in functioning of the Army, the Navy and the Indian Air Force and bolster the country’s military prowess. His appointment to the newly created post came a day before he was […]
JAMMU: Jammu and Kashmir has figured among top five states of the country in terms of increase in its forest cover area over past two years. As per biennial report of Forest Survey of India, Dehradun, released yesterday, JK has figured among the top five states that have registered maximum increase in forest cover during […]
Srinagar: Nearly two years after the Rajasthan police unearthed the scam, the CBI on Monday carried out searches at 13 places in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir which included premises of senior IAS officers Yasha Mudgal and Kumar Rajeev Ranjan. The CBI, which was handed over the case in August last year, is […]
Srinagar: Five political leaders, who had been under preventive detention for the past 148 days, were released from the MLA hostel on Monday by the Union Territory administration of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. The leaders belonging to the National Conference and the PDP were released after the authorities were satisfied that they would not […]
Jammu: Opening the state employment in the Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh for candidates from across the country after nullification of Article 370, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court has invited applications from eligible candidates from all over India to fill 33 vacancies with it. The 33 vacant posts of non-gazetted officials include those […]
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers party on Monday accused the Union territory’s government of having jeopardized the career of unemployed educated youths in J&K by opening local state jobs for outsiders, asserting that it is “unacceptable”. In a first step of its kind, opening the state employment in the Union Territories of J&K and […]
Srinagar: The fringes of the famous Dal Lake froze on Sunday as the mercury continued its freefall in Srinagar which experienced the coldest night of the season at minus 6.2 degrees Celsius, the MET Office said. The minimum temperature across the Kashmir Valley and Ladakh Union Territory stayed several degrees below the freezing point, intensifying […]
New Delhi: North India continued to reel under intense cold on Sunday as the Haryana government decided to close schools for two days and reduced visibility due to dense fog affected the movement of flights and trains at several places. Jaipur in Rajasthan registered the lowest minimum temperature in more than five decades. Although Delhi, […]
Islamabad: Saudi Arabia plans to convene a meeting of the foreign ministers of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation on Kashmir, in an apparent move by Riyadh to please Pakistan which skipped a recent summit of Muslim nations in Malaysia seen by Riyadh as an attempt to create a new bloc to replace the dysfunctional OIC […]