Srinagar: A policeman was injured after militants opened fire at forces in Anantnag district of south Kashmir on Thursday, officials said. Militants attacked a naka party in the Bijbehara area of the south Kashmir district in the evening, they said. The officials said a policeman received minor injuries while taking cover, adding he was shifted […]
Benaulim (Goa): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday conveyed to his Chinese counterpart Qin Gang the importance of resolving the eastern Ladakh border row and ensuring peace and tranquillity along the frontier for development of bilateral ties. Jaishankar held bilateral talks with Qin at a beach resort in Benaulim on the sidelines of a […]
Benaulim (Goa): Pakistan foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari arrived in Goa on Thursday to attend a conclave of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), the first such high-level visit to India from the neighbouring country since 2011. Bhutto Zardari’s visit to India to attend the SCO Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) meeting comes amid continued strain […]
Jammu: An Army helicopter crashed after a “hard landing” in a forested area in the upper reaches of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district on Thursday following a technical fault, killing a technician and injuring the two pilots on board, officials said. The advanced light helicopter (ALH) Dhruv on an operational mission came down on the […]
Jammu: The Army helicopter crash in Kishtwar district in which a technician was killed and two pilots were injured on Thursday was the fifth such incident in Jammu and Kashmir since 2021. Here are brief details of the previous crashes. January 25, 2021: Army helicopter Dhruv crash-landed in Kathua district’s Lakhanpur near Punjab border, killing […]
Jammu: High Court of J&K and Ladakh has rejected the bail application of a police officer and his son who were arrested by the CBI last year in connection with the police sub-inspector recruitment scam. Justice Mohan Lal dismissed the joint bail application moved by Assistant Sub-Inspector Ashok Kumar and his son Jaisuriya Sharma, terming […]
Srinagar: Amid forecast for generally cloudy weather with possibility of rains at several places during next 24 hours, night temperature recorded a drop and settled below normal at most places in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, officials said. A meteorological department official told GNS that there was possibility of a brief spell of rain and […]
Time-Bound Probe Ordered, LG Grieved Jammu : Two persons were killed and five others were injured in a fire incident in Hotel Maa Shanti at Sanasar, Ramban, officials said on Thursday. Reports said that the fire erupted in the hotel overnight and before it was brought under control, two people died and five others were […]
New Delhi:The Supreme Court said on Thursday it will examine the larger constitutional issue of challenge to the validity of extrajudicial divorce like ‘Talaq-e-Hasan’ among Muslims. ‘Talaq-e-Hasan’ is a form of divorce by which a man can dissolve the marriage by pronouncing the word ‘talaq’ once every month over a three-month period. Under Talaq-e-Hasan, a […]
Acquits Doctor Accused Of Abetting Wife Suicide In 2004 Srinagar: A court here has acquitted a doctor who was charged with abetting suicide of his wife in 2004, underling that an accused cannot be convicted on the basis of halfcooked story of the prosecution. As per police’s charegsheet, on 05 September 2004, police was informed […]