Tulip Garden: Floriculture Department to hold Tulip festival in April, garden will open this month
Srinagar: Department of Floriculture will be organising 10-day Tulip festival in April to attract more travelers. The garden is likely to be thrown open for visitors in the last week of March Deputy Director Floriculture department Nazir Ahmad Reshi said that the event will host cultural programmes, photography competitions and other activities for the visitors […]
Following tip off, forces lay siege over Rafiabad village
By Bilal Ahmad Rafiabad: Government forces on Wednesday morning laid a siege over Rafiabad village of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. According to official sources the cordon and search operation is being conducted by a joint team of forces including Army, Police and CRPF jointly. “Drusoo village of Rafiabad has been sealed and door to door […]
Militant hideout busted in J&K’s Kulgam district, one arrested
Srinagar, (PTI) A man was arrested and arms and ammunition, including grenades, were seized by security forces from a militant hideout in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district, police said Wednesday. “On credible input, a joint party of police and other security forces busted a hideout in a residential house at Kulgam district’s Yaripora area, and recovered […]
All Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft would be grounded in India by 4 pm: DGCA official
New Delhi, Mar 13 (PTI) All Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft would be grounded in India by 4 pm on Wednesday, said a senior official of Indian aviation watchdog DGCA. The decision came days after a 737 MAX 8 aircraft operated by the Ethiopian Airlines crashed near Addis Ababa killing 157 people, including four Indians. On […]
UNSC set to decide on designating JeM chief Masood Azhar as ‘global terrorist’
United Nations, Mar 13 (PTI) The fate of the proposal to designate Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed’s chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist by the UN Security Council will be known in less than 24 hours when the deadline to raise objections to the bid expires. The proposal to designate Azhar under the 1267 Al Qaeda […]
Five houses damaged in overnight blaze in Chankhan Sopore
By Bilal Ahmad Sopore: An overnight fire that erupted in Sopore’s Chankhan locality has left five residential houses completely damaged. According to initial reports the fire emerged from the house of Khazir Muhammad Malla and quickly spread to nearby houses. While the cause of fire is believed to be short circuit, officials however said that […]
Search operation started in Bijbehara Village
Srinagar ; Government forces on Wednesday morning launched a Cordon and Search operation in Khiram Srigufwara area of Bijbehara belt in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district. Official sources said that on specific inputs about the presence of militants in the forces government forces including 3 RR and SOG of Jammy and Kashmir Police launched Search operation […]
Election Commission observers tasked to visit JK
New Delhi (PTI) The three special observers appointed by the Election Commission to suggest as to when Assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir can be held, will visit the state soon. While announcing the schedule for the Lok Sabha elections on Sunday, the poll panel had said that Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir cannot be […]
Failure to designate Masood Azhar as global terrorist against regional stability, peace: US
Washington, Mar 13 (PTI) Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar meets the criteria to be designated as a global terrorist and not doing so is against regional stability and peace, the US said Tuesday on the eve of the UN Security Council making a crucial decision in this regard. The JeM, headed by the 50-year-old Azhar, carried out […]
Kejriwal cites AAP’s survey to attack BJP over Pulwama
New Delhi: (PTI) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal cited an internal survey of his party to claim that 56 per cent people feel the BJP will suffer electoral losses because of its “conduct” regarding the Pulwama terror attack and the subsequent Indo-Pakistan tensions. Hitting back, the BJP said it was a “shame” that Kejriwal was […]
