Anti-corruption court sentences former official to 3-year imprisonment
Srinagar, Dec 19: A former SO Panning, DC Office Jammu has been convicted in Disproportionate case and was sentenced to three years imprisonment. A spokesman of the Special Judge Anti Corruption Court of Tahir Khurshid Raina, in a disproportionate assets case, has awarded three years imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 50 lakh on the convict public servant Nasir […]
FIRs lodged against those providing shelter to Rohingyas in Jammu
Jammu, Dec 19 (PTI) Seven FIRs have been lodged at different police stations here against persons allegedly involved in providing shelter and government benefits to Rohingyas, police said on Tuesday. The FIRs were lodged at police stations Satwari, Trikuta Nagar, Bagh-e-Bahu, Channi Himmat, Nowabad, Domana and Nagrota following searches at different locations in Jammu district, […]
Markets give up early gains; trade lower
MUMBAI, Dec 19 (PTI): Benchmark equity indices climbed in early trade on Tuesday but later gave up all the early gains and were trading lower in line with weak Asian market cues. The 30-share BSE Sensex climbed 254.11 points to 71,569.20 in early trade. The Nifty went up by 61.35 points to 21,480. However, later […]
Pahalgam records coldest night of season at minus 6.9 degree Celsius
Srinagar, Dec 19: Several areas of South Kashmir on Tuesday recorded the season’s coldest night as the mercury plummeted across the region. After improvement in night temperature due to snowfall, the sub-zero temperature has once again been recorded at all the stations here. Qazigund and Pahalgam in South Kashmir recorded the coldest night of season […]
Midnight earthquake kills 111 in China
BEIJING/JISHISHAN, Dec 19 (PTI) : At least 111 people were killed when a 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck an ethnic county in northwest China’s Gansu and neighbouring Qinghai province on midnight Monday, the local earthquake relief headquarters said. According to the China Earthquake Networks Centre, the shallow quake jolted the region at 11:59 p.m. on Monday, with […]
Centre asks states to be vigilant as Covid cases rise
New Delhi: The Centre on Monday asked states and union territories to maintain constant vigil amid an uptick in COVID-19 cases and the detection of the first case of the new JN.1 variant in the country. In a letter to states and union territories, Union Health Secretary Sudhansh Pant underlined that “due to consistent and […]
