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Srinagar records hottest day with mercury touching 35 degrees

SRINAGAR: Srinagar and Kupwara on Sunday recorded the hottest day of the season with the mercury touching 35 degrees in Srinagar and 35.3 degrees...

Advisory on swimming in water bodies after rise in drowning cases

SRINAGAR: After back-to-back drowning incidents, the administration in Kashmir has restricted swimming at water bodies to prevent deaths. The move comes after more than five...

Gaps in transmission, distribution to be filled by October: LG

Srinagar: In order to monitor the advance preparations made by the Power Development Department in view of the winter season, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha...

326 sedition cases filed in India between 2014-19; only 6 convictions

New Delhi: A total of 326 cases were registered in the country under the controversial colonial-era penal law on sedition between 2014 and 2019...

117 fresh Covid cases, no deaths in Kashmir

Srinagar: Kashmir on Saturday reported 117 fresh Covid-19 cases and 164 recoveries, and zero deaths, in the last 24 hours. One death was reported...

Group behind ‘intimidation machinery’ busted: Police

Srinagar:Police on Saturday claimed to have achieved a major breakthrough by busting a group that threatened social activists, political leaders, government officers and journalists. During...

‘Democracy means protection of minorities’: HC questions ban on slaughterhouses in Haridwar

NAINITAL: Questioning the constitutionality of the government’s ban on slaughterhouses in Haridwar district, the Uttarakhand High Court on Friday said that a civilisation is...

Universities to begin new session from Oct 1: UGC

‘Admissions to be completed by September 30’ NEW DELHI: The new academic session in universities and colleges across the county will begin from October 1...

2 children die in fire incident in Ramban

Banihal: Two minor siblings died and two others were injured on Saturday after their house was gutted in a fire in Jammu and Kashmir's...

JK Police, NIA joint training programme concludes

Srinagar: A week-long joint training programme on capacity building of the Jammu and Kashmir Police with the National Investigation Agency (NIA) concluded here on...

Neither under-trial nor court can choose the jail: HC

Srinagar: “An under-trial has no right of choice for his lodgement/jail, nor the trial court is authorised to specify a particular lodgement of an...

Kashmir reels under heat wave, Srinagar records above 34 degree

Srinagar: Heat wave continued on Saturday in Jammu and Kashmir as Srinagar recorded a temperature of 34.1 degree Celsius. A meteorological department official said that...

Weather Advisory for heavy rains in J&K

Srinagar: Meteorological department on Saturday issued a weather advisory for heavy rains and thunder with lightning in Jammu and Kashmir. “Lower and Middle level tropospheric...

Assad sworn in for 4th term as Syria’s President

Damascus: Syrian President Bashar Assad was sworn in Saturday for a fourth seven-year term in the war-torn country, pledging to overcome the impact of...

All gaps in Indian borders will be plugged by this year end: Amit Shah

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah Saturday asserted that unfenced gaps along India's over 7,500-km-long land border will be sealed by the end...

One more gunfight in Srinagar, 2 militants killed

Srinagar: Two militants were killed in an encounter with government forces in Srinagar on Friday morning, police said. The militants were trapped in a house...

Huge cache of explosives, ammunition recovered in Tral

Srinagar: Security forces have recovered a huge cache of explosives, including 51-mm mortar shells, and ammunition in Tral area of Pulwama district, police said...

Kashmiris dismayed at ban on bovine animals’ sacrifice

Grand Mufti calls it ‘interference in religious affairs’ Anantnag: People in Kashmir are upset at what they call as an “arbitrary” ban imposed by the...

Revoke ‘arbitrary’ ban on sacrifice of bovine animals: MMU

Srinagar: All the constituent members of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Ulema (MMU) Jammu and Kashmir headed by incarcerated Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday expressed strong resentment...

NC asks admin to revoke ban: NC

Srinagar: National Conference on Friday took strong exception to the blanket ban on bovine slaughter on Eid ul Azha, saying the order should be...

No ban on slaughter of animals: Govt

SRINAGAR: The Animal and Sheep Husbandry Department on Friday clarified that the Jammu and Kashmir government has not issued any ban order on slaughtering...

Reuters photojournalist Danish Siddiqui killed in Afghanistan

KABUL: Danish Siddiqui, a Pulitzer Prize winner Indian photojournalist who worked for Reuters news agency, has been killed in Afghanistan while covering the fierce...

Roshni scam: CBI searches premises of 3 IAS officers, others in Jammu, Srinagar

New Delhi: The CBI on Friday conducted searches at nine locations in Srinagar and Jammu at the premises of three IAS officers, a politician...

Tourism economy suffers as road to Aharbal lies in disrepair

Shopian: The Shopian-Aharbal road, vital for the local tourism economy, is in a shambles for a long time but the authorities are showing no...

Govt starts process to identify ‘ineffective’ employees

Srinagar: The Government has asked administrative secretaries to initiate a process to identify employees who are “ineffective in work or not fit to continue”...

One dies of Covid in Jammu, 221 new cases

Srinagar: One person hailing from Jammu died due to Covid while 221 new Covid cases were reported in Jammu and Kashmir in the last...

LG takes district-wise assessment of Covid situation with Covid Task Force, DCs, SPs

SRINAGAR: Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha today interacted with Senior Officials, Deputy Commissioners and SPs to discuss Covid related situation in the UT. During the Covid...

Hospital occupancy goes down to 4.4% in Kashmir

109 patients in Srinagar hospitals, 40 in 9 other districts Anantnag: Only 4.4 percent of the beds designated for Covid treatment in Kashmir valley...

Covid claims one more in Jammu

Srinagar: One person hailing from Jammu died due to Covid while 203 fresh Covid cases were reported in Jammu and Kashmir in the last...

MMU asks govt to allow congregational prayers in central mosques

Srinagar: All constituent members of Muttahida Majlis-e-Ulema (MMU) Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday asked the government to remove restrictions on offering congregational Friday prayers...

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