Two girls drown to death at Drang
Survivors accuse Hydel-Power Project employees for tragedy; SDM promises probe
Tangmarg: Two teenage cousin sisters one from Nawabazar and another from Bemina localities of Srinagar drowned to death after a sudden flow of water from a power canal washed them away at Ferozpur Nallah, Drang tourist resort in Tangmarg area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Wednesday. Two other family members were also stuck in […]
‘Mehbooba’s mother skips appearance before ED’
Srinagar: Gulshan Nazir, mother of PDP president Mehbooba Mufti, did not appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday as the investigating agency has not responded to a letter written by the widow of former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and Union home minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, seeking details of the case in which she […]
J&K records 161 new Covid cases, 2 deaths
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir logged 161 fresh cases of coronavirus on Wednesday, raising the cumulative tally to 3,19,152 while two new fatalities took the death toll to 4,360, officials said. Of the fresh cases, 123 were reported from the Kashmir division and 38 were from the Jammu division of the union territory, they said. The […]
Elderly woman dies in road accident in Bandipora
Bandipora: An elderly woman died after being run over by an army truck in Nadihal village of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Wednesday. Locals said the accident took place around 1:30 PM this afternoon when a convoy of trucks was passing through the area. One of the army trucks ran over the elderly woman identified […]
Security forces destroy IED in Kulgam
Srinagar: Security forces detected and destroyed an improvised explosive device (IED) planted under a chinar tree in Kulgam district of south Kashmir, police said on Wednesday. “An IED was spotted under a chinar tree on the outskirts of village Damjen in Qazigund area,” a police spokesman said. He said the area was immediately cordoned off […]
16 persons injured in road accident in Poonch
Poonch: At least sixteen passengers were injured in a road accident in Khanetar area of Poonch district on Wednesday, police said. An official said that the accident took place after a bus (JK 12-910) suffered a collision with a truck on Jammu-Poonch highway at Kaniyan, one kilometre from Poonch town. Police said 16 people including […]
J&K records 143 fresh COVID-19 cases, one more death
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday recorded 143 fresh coronavirus cases that took the cumulative infection tally to 3,18,991 while one more fatality pushed the death toll to 4,358, officials said. As many as 92 fresh cases were reported from the Kashmir division of the union territory and 51 from the Jammu division, they said. […]
TPO Kashmir signs MoU with WRI-India on urban development of Srinagar Metropolitan Area
Srinagar: The Housing & Urban Development Department’s (H&UDD), Town Planning Organization (TPO) Kashmir, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with WRI-India that has been mandated to provide technical services and other expertise towards urban development of Srinagar Metropolitan Area. The MoU was signed in presence of Principal Secretary H&UDD, Dheeraj Gupta between Chief Town […]
Banihal-Baramulla train service to fully resume from today
Srinagar: Railway authorities have decided to fully restore the train service between Banihal and Baramulla from July 14 (Wednesday), officials said on Tuesday. The train service resumed partially on July 01 after seven weeks of suspension when two pairs of trains chugged between Bahinal to Budgam only. The particular section between Budgam and Baramulla was […]
Authorities seal Martyrs’ graveyard in Srinagar
Kashmir political parties condemn curbs; Pandit organisations observe 'Black Day' in Jammu
Srinagar: Authorities sealed off the Martyrs’ graveyard in the old city area here on Tuesday to prevent people from assembling to commemorate the killing of 22 people, who were protesting against the autocratic rule in Jammu and Kashmir, by Dogra forces on this day in 1931. The entry to the graveyard inside Naqshband Sahib Shrine […]
