Jammu-Srinagar NH closed for second day as fresh landslides hamper restoration work
Banihal/Jammu: The 270-km Jammu-Srinagar national highway remained closed for the second day on Wednesday as heavy rains triggered fresh landslides at different places in Ramban district hampering road clearance operation, officials said. The highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with the rest of the country, was closed for vehicular traffic early Tuesday after a […]
Floods in northern Afghanistan leave dozens dead, injured
Kabul: Heavy flooding in northern Afghanistan has killed more than two dozen people and injured scores of others, officials said Wednesday. A spokesperson for Parwan province, Wahida Shahkar, said casualties may still rise as rescue teams work to locate those buried under hundreds of destroyed houses. She said 25 died and 40 were injured while […]
Ram Madhav to visit Srinagar tomorrow
Srinagar: Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) General Secretary Ram Madhav is scheduled to visit Srinagar tomorrow, sources in the party revealed on Wednesday. According to KNO, Madhav will arrive in Srinagar tomorrow morning and chair party workers meeting. “He will chair workers meeting and take fresh feedback from the party workers over the prevailing situation in […]
Govt needs to spend more, not lend more: Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday attacked the government over the state of the economy and said it needs to give money to the poor to restart the economy through consumption Gandhi said “distractions” through media won’t help the poor or make the “economic disaster disappear” His attack on the government came after […]
67,151 new COVID cases; 1,059 deaths in India
New Delhi: India’s novel coronavirus tally rose to 32.34 lakh on Wednesday with 67,151 more people testing positive for the infection, while the recoveries have surged to 24,67,758, the Health Ministry said. The death toll from the pathogen climbed to 59,449 with 1,059 more fatalities. The recovery rate rose to 76.30 per cent with 63,173 more […]
2019 Pulwama attack: NIA files chargesheet against Jaish Chief, 18 others
Jammu: Wrapping up the probe into a fatal suicide attack that left 40 CRPF personnel dead in south Kashmir last year, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday filed a chargesheet in a special court here against 19 people including Masood Azhar, the chief of banned militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed, for planning the attack. Leading the […]
Covid-19: 701 positive cases reported in J&K, tally 33776
7544 active positive; 25594 recovered so far; 649 deathd
Srinagar: The tally of Covid-19 infected cases reached 33776 in Jammu and Kashmir as 701 new positive cases were reported today – 562 from Kashmir and 139 from Jammu division, officials said. They said that out of 33776 positive cases, 7544 are active positive whileas 25594 have recovered including 389 who were discharged from different […]
ED files charge sheet against Syed Salahuddin, others in militancy funding case
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate Tuesday filed a charge-sheet before Delhi court against Pakistan-based Hizb-ul-Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin and 11 others for allegedly laundering money for financing militant activities in Jammu and Kashmir. The prosecution complaint, ED’s equivalent to charge-sheet, has urged the court for confiscating attached assets totalling to Rs 1.22 crores in the […]
Delimitation panel orders freeze on creating new admin units in J&K, 4 NE states
New Delhi: The Delimitation Commission has ordered a freeze on creation of new ‘administrative units’ in Jammu and Kashmir, and Assam, Manipur, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh and till the exercise of redrawing constituencies in the union territory and the northeastern states is completed. The order says the freeze is effective from June 15, a senior officer […]
4 persons killed in landslides in Reasi
Massive landslide closes Jmu-Sgr highway
Jammu/Banihal: Three members of a family were among four killed in separate incidents of landslides following heavy rains in Reasi district, police said on Tuesday. Khalil Ahmad (30), his wife Raksana Begum (25) and their relative Mohammad Aslam were killed after a landslide in upper reaches of Khour in Mahore area on Monday night, a […]
