Srinagar: Eleven days after being fired upon here, Akash Kumar son of Rasmesh Kumar Mehra—owner of popular eatery (Krishna Dhaba) here—succumbed to the wounds at a hospital in Srinagar, officials said on Sunday. They said Akash (25) , a resident of Janipur Jammu, at present Dalgate Srinagar, died at the SMHS hospital at around […]
Jammu: Asserting that he had retired only from Rajya Sabha and not politics, Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad Saturday expressed a resolve to continue his fight for the restoration of Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood and its residents’ special rights over jobs and land. The former chief minister also stressed the importance of unity among […]
Jammu: Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal Saturday said here the party was “getting weak”, but was not utilising the vast political experience of veteran leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, who recently retired from Rajya Sabha. Sibal was among several party leaders including Manish Tewari, former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Raj Babbar and Anand Sharma […]
Srinagar: Forty-two travellers were among 97 new cases of novel coronavirus reported in Jammu and Kashmir even as no death due to the virus has been reported in the last 24 hours, officials said on Saturday. Among the fresh infections, they said, 24 were from Jammu division and 73 from Kashmir Valley, taking the […]
Udhampur,: The Army”s northern commander Lt Gen Y K Joshi on Saturday said the agreement between India and Pakistan to strictly adhere to the ceasefire pact along the Line of Control (LoC) would have no bearing on the counter-terrorism operations in Jammu and Kashmir. He said the northern command, which looks after the security […]
Washington: Saudi Arabia’s powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved an operation to “capture or kill” exiled journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the kingdom’s consulate in Turkey, according to a declassified US intelligence report released by the Biden administration on the grisly murder of the leading dissident in 2018. Fifty-nine-year-old Khashoggi, who lived in the US […]
Srinagar:Fresh snowfall in Kashmir on Saturday brought back cold wave- like conditions in the valley where the day temperature for the past week was several degrees higher than normal for this time of the year, officials said. Fresh snowfall was reported from most parts of Kashmir, including Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, […]
Jammu: Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district and recovered four grenades and ammunition on Friday, officials said. A joint search operation was launched in Mendhar belt based on disclosure of Sher Ali, a coordinator and facilitator of terror activities of various groups who was arrested from Jammu […]
Srinagar; Seventeen students scored straight ‘A’s in the Class 10 board examinations held in Kashmir as the results declared on Friday showed that girls had performed better than boys. Over 75,000 students had appeared in the Class 10 examinations, conducted by Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education, in October last year, officials said. While […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir on Friday reported 85 new COVID-19 cases taking the overall tally to 126286. Of the cases reported today, 69 were reported in Kashmir while Jammu division reported 16 infections. Reader correspondentkashmirreader.com