Traffic suspended on Jammu-Srinagar NH after mudslide, flash floods in Ramban
Ramban/Jammu, May 8 (PTI) Traffic on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway was suspended early Thursday after heavy rains triggered multiple landslides and shooting stones from hillocks overlooking the arterial road in Ramban district, officials said. A flash flood also hit Ramban market but there was no report of any casualty, the officials said. According to traffic […]
Govt briefs all-party meeting on ‘Operation Sindoor’
New Delhi, May 8 (PTI) The government is briefing an all-party meeting on Thursday on the success of “Operation Sindoor” and its aftermath, as top government functionaries and opposition leaders met for a second time in a fortnight amid rising tensions between India and Pakistan following the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22. Union ministers […]
India-Pak tensions: Saudi junior foreign minister in Delhi on unannounced visit
NEW DELHI, May 8(PTI): Saudi Arabia’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel Aljubeir is in India on an unannounced visit and held talks with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday with a focus on de-escalating tensions between India and Pakistan. Aljubeir’s visit to New Delhi comes as the already frosty ties between India […]
Helicopter crashes in Uttarakhand, five dead
UTTARKASHI (UKD), May 8 (PTI) : Five persons were killed and two others injured on Thursday when a private company’s helicopter on way to Gangotri shrine crashed near Gangnani in Uttarkashi district, officials said. The helicopter carrying a total of seven people, including the pilot, crashed on the Rishikesh-Gangotri National Highway at around 8:45 am. […]
Schools shut across six border districts in Punjab following ‘Operation Sindoor’
Chandigarh, May 8 (PTI) Amid soaring tension between India and Pakistan, all schools in six border districts of Punjab remained shut on Thursday, officials said. The schools were closed in Ferozepur, Pathankot, Fazilka, Amritsar, Gurdaspur and Tarn Taran districts, they said. Tensions escalated after Indian armed forces early Wednesday carried out missile strikes on nine […]
Watching situation very closely: Top US army general after Op Sindoor
New York/Washington, May 8 (PTI) A top American military commander has said that the US is “watching the situation very closely” after Indian military strikes on terror targets in PoK and Pakistan’s Punjab province. India launched Operation Sindoor early Wednesday, hitting nine terror targets in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Pakistan’s Punjab province in retaliation for […]
If I can do anything to help, I will be there: President Trump on tensions between India, Pak
New York/Washington, May 8 (PTI) US President Donald Trump said he wants India and Pakistan to “stop” the conflict, saying if he can do anything to “help”, he will be there. “Oh it’s so terrible. My position is I get along with both. I know both very well and I want to see them work […]
Air India, AI Express offer free rescheduling of tickets for armed forces personnel
New Delhi, May 8 (PTI) Air India and Air India Express have offered free rescheduling of tickets or full refunds on cancellations for armed forces personnel who have bookings with the airlines. The announcement came against the backdrop of India’s armed forces destroying nine terrorist infrastructures, including that of Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba, in Pakistan and […]
Shelling by Pak troops in north Kashmir’s Kupwara, no causalities reported so far
Srinagar, May 8 (PTI) Pakistani troops resorted to cross-border shelling along the Line of Control (LoC) in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir for the second consecutive day on Thursday, a day after the Indian armed forces targeted terror infrastructure in the neighbouring country as part of ‘Operation Sindoor’. The Pakistani side targeted civilian areas […]
‘OPERATION SINDOOR’: Pahalgam attack avenged
Nine terror sites in Pakistan, PoK destroyed in 25-minute operation New Delhi: In a strong retaliation to the Pahalgam massacre, India’s armed forces early Wednesday destroyed nine terror sites including that of Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) using deep strike missiles in a 25-minute-long “measured and non-escalatory” mission. Foreign Secretary Vikram […]
