Number of missing jumps to more than 1,000 in California fire
Los Angeles, Nov 17 (AFP) The number of people missing in a devastating wildfire in northern California jumped to more than 1,000 on Friday, authorities said, as the remains of eight other victims were found by rescuers. Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said the number of missing had soared from 631 on Thursday to 1,011 on […]
Panchayat polls: Keran , Ramhal, Tarathpora, Teetwal, Tangdar record total 3.5% voting till 9 am
Srinagar: A total of 3.5 percent votes were polled in District Kupwara in its five blocks including Keran , Ramhal, Tarathpora, Teetwal and Tangdar upto 9 am, officials said on Saturday. According to officials a total number of 1987 votes were cast, including 1216 male and 871 female voters. Officials said that uptill 10 AM Gurez had […]
Panchayat polls: Amid shutdown polling commences, fate of 5585 candidates to be decided today
Srinagar: Amid JRL called boycott and shutdown, 47 panchayat blocks including 16 in Kashmir, 21 in Jammu and 10 in Ladakh region are going to polls for first phase in a nine-phased election process commences today. The polling begun at 8 am and will end at 2 pm. While Joint Resistance leadership has called for a […]
For Directorate of Archives, Archaeology and Museums, NN Vohra is still the Governor of J&K
Srinagar: For Directorate of Archives, Archaeology and Museums, NN Vohra is still the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir. The official website of the department www.jkarchives.nic.in shows that NN Vohra is still the Governor of the State. Ironically, the website has been updated recently and changes have been made with regard to Director of the […]
GST Intelligence Wing raids Mineral Water Plants in Kashmir
Srinagar: GST Intelligence Wing has raided the offices of different package drinking water plants across Kashmir Valley and even seized records from them for evading tax under Goods and Service Tax. Reliable sources told news agency CNS that a team of GST Intelligence Wing headed by Deputy Director Kaushal raided the office premises of […]
Former J&K DGP Rajendra tried his best to dislodge me: Basant Rath
Srinagar: Former top traffic cop of Jammu and Kashmir Basant Rath has said that ex-Director General of Police K Rajendra tried his best to dislodge him as Senior Superintendent of Police Jammu. However, Rath said that it was SDS Jamwal, the then IGP Jammu, who stood by him. In a Facebook post, Rath wrote: “Ladies and […]
Bar announces support to JRL’s shutdown call, to suspend work in courts tomorrow
Srinagar: Kashmir High Court Bar Association on Friday supported the Joint Resistance Leadership’s call for a valley wide shutdown on November 17 as nine-phased election to Panchayats in the state commences. According to a statement the lawyers body said: In view o the general strike call given by the JRL, the bar association has decided […]
Australia takes India to WTO over sugar subsidies
Melbourne (PTI): Australia said on Friday that it was taking legal action against India, the world’s second-largest sugar producer, at the WTO over subsidies which it said caused a “significant downturn” in world sugar prices and hurt Australian producers. Australia alleges that the subsidies, which have seen Indian sugar production leap from an average 20 million […]
India, China should boost military exchanges: Chinese defence minister
Beijing (PTI): India and China should boost military exchanges and improve mutual trust and properly manage and control any “disparities”, Chinese State Councillor and Defence Minister Gen Wei Fenghe has said. Defence Secretary Sanjay Mitra, who headed the Indian delegation at the ninth India-China Annual Defence and Security Dialogue here on November 13, called on Wei […]
Pak shall be ‘punished’ for activities detrimental to India: Army commander
Udhampur, Nov 16 (PTI) The Army’s Northern Command chief, Lt Gen Ranbir Singh, said Friday Pakistan shall be “punished” if it carries out activities detrimental to India and asserted that befitting replies were given to the neighbouring nation for violating ceasefire. The Army commander’s comments come in the wake of fatalities in sniping incidents along the […]
