After day long siege, encounter breaks out in Sopore village

Sopore, June 11: A gunfight broke out between militants and government forces in Sopore village of Baramulla district in north Kashmir on Tuesday after several hours of siege. Reports said that a joint team of army’s 22 RR, CRPF and SOG cordoned off Wadoora of Sopore area today morning. After day long siege, the joint […]
Police registers FIR in an alleged rape case in Sumbal

Srinagar: A woman was alleged gang-raped in Nowgam area of Sumbal in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district. According to the details the girl provided to police, the incident occurred months ago in the Nowgam area where a woman (name withheld) was first raped by a person who recorded the act on his mobile phone and later […]
Wreckage of missing IAF aircraft found in AP

Lipo (AP): The wreckage of an IAF aircraft, which went missing eight days ago with 13 people on board, was found Tuesday in Lipo locality of Arunachal Pradesh, official sources said. The Russian-origin AN-32 aircraft lost contact on the afternoon of June 3 after taking off from Jorhat in Assam for Menchuka advanced landing ground […]
J-K bank case: I-T dept initiates action; conducts raids

Srinagar/New Delhi: Within days of anti-corruption bureau action against J&K Bank, the Income-Tax Department Tuesday initiated probe into the alleged irregularities and conducted searches at 10 premises on a business firm of a senior Srinagar municipal corporation functionary, officials said. Tax sleuths raided eight premises in Jammu and Kashmir’s summer capital Srinagar and one each […]
Crime Branch Kashmir booked fake Facebook account holder

Srinagar: Crime Branch Kashmir registered a case punishable U/s 420 RPC, 66-(D) I.T Act for running a fake facebook account page in the name of Dr. Gull Javid of SKIMS Soura and having uploaded fake post regarding kidney failure of a patient and receiving donations/charity from general public. Crime Branch Kashmir received complaint alleging therein […]
Govt warns against sale of spurious pesticides, fungicides

Srinagar: Taking a serious note of use of spurious pesticides and fungicides by some dealers and instructed, Director Agriculture Kashmir dissected the enforcement agency to be vigilant and increase the touring and monitoring and warned them stern action under Insecticides Act. Also as Insecticide/Fertilizer Controller Director Agriculture issued on spot circular to all the dealers that […]
Government hospitals charging patients for medical services unfair: DAK

Srinagar: While government hospitals are duty bound to provide free treatment to patients, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Tuesday said patients are charged hefty sums on tests, procedures and medicines in Kashmir Valley’s government-run hospitals. “It is unfair for government hospitals to charge patients as they have an obligation to provide services free of […]
India’s GDP growth overestimated by 2.5 pc, says Modi govt’s former chief economic adviser

New Delhi,(PTI) Arvind Subramanian, Narendra Modi government’s former chief economic adviser, has deduced that India’s economic growth rate has been overestimated by around 2.5 percentage points between 2011-12 and 2016-17 due to a change in methodology for calculating GDP. India’s gross domestic product product (GDP) growth rate between this period should be about 4.5 per cent […]
Fire breaks out at Doordarshan Kendra in Mathura, operations hit

Mathura (UP), Jun 11 (PTI) A fire broke out in the switch gear room at the Doordarshan Kendra here on Tuesday due to a suspected short circuit, damaging property worth lakhs of rupees, an official of the public broadcaster said. Four fire tenders were rushed to the spot and the blaze was doused in about 90 […]
Zardari produced before court, anti-graft body seeks physical remand

Islamabad, Jun 11 (PTI) Pakistan’s former president Asif Ali Zardari was produced before an accountability court here on Tuesday by the anti-graft body seeking his physical remand, a day after he was arrested from his residence in the fake bank accounts case. A team of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) accompanied by police, including female officials, […]