Amritpal Singh taken to New Delhi from Assam jail to take oath as MP

DIBRUGARH: Jailed Waris Punjab De activist Amritpal Singh was taken to New Delhi by special aircraft on Friday morning for his swearing-in as an MP, an official said.   Singh, who has won the Lok Sabha polls from the Khadoor Sahib constituency in Punjab, has been granted four-day parole for the swearing-in, he said.   […]

Body of youth drowned in Jhelum in Hajin Bandipora retrieved

Body of youth drowned in Jhelum in Hajin Bandipora retrieved

Hajin: The Indian Navy’s MARCOS retrieved the body of a 17-year-old youth on Friday who had drowned while taking a bath in the River Jhelum in the Hajin area of Bandipora district. Officials reported that after news of the incident broke, the SDRF and Police launched a massive rescue operation to trace the drowned youth, […]

Amarnath Yatra crosses 1.30 lakh mark in 6 days, fresh batch of around 7000 pilgrims leaves from Jammu

        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 […]

Speedy oil tanker falls into Jhelum in Sumbal

  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 […]

Former J&K minister rejoins PDP

    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 […]

Hemant Soren: Youngest Jharkhand CM with chequered career

      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 […]

37-year-old man’s body found in Anantnag

      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 […]

Youth Drowns in Jhelum at Hajin

  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 […]

Reasons for SC collegium rejecting candidates for judgeship can’t be made public: HC

NEW DELHI: The reasons for rejection of recommendations for appointment of high court judges by the Supreme Court collegiums cannot be made public as it will be detrimental to the interests of people concerned and will stifle the appointment process, the Delhi High Court has held. The high court made the observation while dismissing an […]