Jammu: Over 24,000 pilgrims paid obeisance at naturally formed Ice Shivlingam at Himalayan cave in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district till yesterday evening, this year’s yatra crossed 1.30 lakh mark in just six days, breaking all previous records of scared pilgrimage. While a fresh batch of 6919 pilgrims left Bhagwati Nagar […]
Srinagar:- A speedy oil tanker has fallen into the river Jehlum in Wangipora, Sumbal in North Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Friday morning. An official told that during intervening night one unknown oil tanker on way from srinagar towards sumbal skidded off the road near wangipora checkpost and fell into river jhelum along with the […]
Srinagar:Six years after he quit, former Jammu and Kashmir minister Syed Basharat Bukhari rejoined the PDP on Thursday. Bukhari was a minister in the PDP-BJP coalition government, first headed by Mufti Muhammad Sayeed and later Mehbooba Mufti. After the government fell in 2018, Bukhari quit the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and […]
SRINAGAR: National Conference (NC) vice president Omar Abdullah on Thursday said the BJP should change its attitude and stop behaving as if it won 400 seats in the Lok Sabha elections. Speaking to reporters after the conclusion of the two-day meeting of the NC’s working committee, Abdullah, while replying to a question on the […]
RANCHI: From taking charge of Jharkhand as its youngest chief minister at 38 to establishing himself as a “fighter” for tribal rights, Hemant Soren, who returned at the helm for a third term days after his release from jail on bail, has had a chequered career. Not the first choice of […]
Anantnag:Body of a 37-year-old man was found along a nallah in Donipawa area in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district this afternoon, said an official. The official said that one labourer Abdul Hameed Sheikh (37), son of Abdul Samad, of Donipawa was found along nallah Arpath. “The police have recovered the body […]
Srinagar: 19 year-old youth drowned in the Jhelum River while taking bath in river Jehlum in Hajin town of North Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Thursday. An official said that the youth, identified as Nadeem, 19, son of Zahoor Ahmad and a resident of Mir Mohalla Hajin, drowned near Jamia at Hajin Bandipora. The […]
LONDON: The future of Rishi Sunak as Britain’s Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party hangs in the balance as polling booths opened across the UK on Thursday, with millions expected to turn out to cast their votes in the general election. Sunak, 44, is up against voter angst towards the incumbent Tories […]
NEW DELHI: The T20 World Cup-winning Indian cricket team returned to the country here on Thursday aboard a specially-arranged charter flight with scores of fans lining up outside the airport to welcome the players despite a steady drizzle and heavy security deployment that kept them at a distance from their heroes. Hundreds […]
RANCHI: Jharkhand chief minister Champai Soren resigned on Wednesday and Hemant Soren, who is out on bail in a money laundering case, staked claim to form the government, hours after leaders of the JMM-led alliance in the state unanimously elected him as the legislature party leader. Champai Soren, who had taken oath as the […]