Around 20 people injured in road mishap at Udhampur
Jammu, Jul 10 Atleast twenty persons were injured after the bus they were travelling in met with an accident at Ramnagar area of Udhampur district on Thursday. Officials said that a bus bearing registration number JK02AG-7822 suddenly skidded off the road and turned turtle near Highway school, Sunetar. Twenty people were injured in the mishap […]
Home Minister Amit Shah to chair Eastern Zonal Council meeting in Ranchi
Ranchi, Jul 10 (PTI) Union Home Minister Amit Shah will chair the Eastern Zonal Council meeting here today in which around 70 representatives from the four eastern states – Jharkhand, Bihar, Odisha and West Bengal – will participate, officials said. Shah arrived in Jharkhand’s capital Ranchi around 10 pm on Wednesday to chair the meeting […]
Man hailing from Kupwara found dead at Kadlabal Pampore in south Kashmir
Srinagar, Jul 10: A 54-year-old driver from north Kashmir’s Kupwara district died under mysterious circumstances in Kadlabal Pampore early Thursday morning. Official sources said that the deceased has been identified as Sajjad Ahmad Shah a resident of Panzgam, Kupwara, working as driver. He was reportedly found unconscious in the Kadlabal Pampore area and was immediately […]
Magnitude 4.4 earthquake hits Haryana, tremors felt in Delhi-NCR
NEW DELHI, Jul 10 (PTI): An earthquake of magnitude 4.4 struck near Jhajjar in Haryana on Thursday morning, sending tremors across the Delhi-NCR region. The epicentre was 3 km northeast of Jhajjar and 51 km west of Delhi. The earthquake struck at a depth of 10 km at 9.04 am, the National Centre for Seismology […]
Amarnath Yatra: 7,307 pilgrims leave Jammu base camp
JAMMU, Jul 10(PTI): A fresh batch of more than 7,300 pilgrims left the Bhagwati Nagar base camp here to join the annual Amarnath pilgrimage in the south Kashmir Himalayas on Thursday morning, officials said. About 1.28 lakh pilgrims have paid obeisance at the holy cave shrine, located at a height of 3,880 metres, since the […]
Three sites in African continent removed from UNESCO world heritage in danger list
NEW DELHI, Jul 10 (PTI): The World Heritage Committee has removed three African heritage sites — in Madagascar, Egypt and Libya — from UNESCO’s list of sites in danger, acknowledging successful efforts to mitigate threats and restore their cultural and ecological integrity. The decision was taken on July 9 during the ongoing 47th session of […]
Promote SKICC for MICE tourism: CM to Officials
Chairs SKICC & JKTDC Board Meetings SRINAGAR: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Wednesday chaired the Board meetings of Sher-i- Kashmir International Convention Centre (SKICC) and Jammu & Kashmir Tourism Development Corporation (JKTDC) after the Boards were reconstituted recently with Chief Minister as chairman of both the Boards. CM chaired back-to back board meetings here at SKICC […]
