Stray dogs strike in Baramulla, 21 persons injured, hospitalized
Baramulla: At least twenty one people were attacked and injured by stray dogs in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Tuesday. Reports reaching GNS said said that a pack of stray dogs appeared in Kantbagh area today morning and attacked scores of people. In the incident, twenty one persons there this morning, they said, adding that […]
Junaid Azim Matoo is the Mayor SMC
Srinagar: Junaid Azim Mattoo was on Tuesday appointed the Mayor of Srinagar Municipal Corporation. Mattoo was a Mayoral candidate of Sajad Lone’s People’s Conference. He defeated Congress’s Bashir Hajam. “Junaid of PC got 40 votes,Congress candidate got 26 while 4 votes were declared invalid,” sources said. Sources said that Saleem lone, an independent, has been […]
Shopian shuts to mourn militants killing
Shopian: A complete shutdown is being observed in Shopian against militant killings in a pre dawn gunfight with government forces in Safnari village here on Tuesday. Eyewitness said all shops and business establishments were closed off while as public transport was as thin on roads. Earlier today a gunfight broke out in Shopian village […]
Facebook blocks 30 accounts ahead of US midterm elections
San Francisco, (AFP): Facebook said Monday it had blocked some 30 accounts on its platform and 85 accounts on photo-sharing social network Instagram over concerns they may be linked to foreign entities and aimed at interfering in US midterm elections. The announcement came shortly after US law enforcement and intelligence agencies said they had no […]
S Arabia grilled at UN rights review session over Khashoggi killing
United Nations,(PTI): Saudi Arabia expressed “regret and pain” over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and asserted its commitment to achieving the “highest possible standards” in human rights in the country as it was grilled by countries at the UN on Monday over the brutal murder. The public debate at the UN Human Rights Council in […]
Two Kashmiri students arrested in connection with Maqsudan blast case in Jalandhar
Srinagar: Two Kashmiri college students have been arrested in connection with the Maqsudan police station hand grenade blast case, reports said. Shahid Qayoom (22) and Fazil Bashir (23), students of an engineering college in Jalandhar, have been arrested, they said. DGP Suresh Arora said in a press release that four persons were involved in carrying out […]
Congress all set to control Srinagar Municipal Corporation: GA Mir
Srinagar: The J&K Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) President G.A. Mir on Monday said that the Congress amalgam is all set to take control of Srinagar Municipal Corporation. “The Saffron Party is desperate enough to grab power, besides making inroads in Srinagar City with the support of their alliance partner, but the secular amalgam led by […]
China to continue Iran trade despite new US sanctions
Beijing (AFP): China denounced new US sanctions targeting Iran’s oil and financial sectors as “long-arm jurisdiction” on Monday and vowed to continue its bilateral trade with the Islamic republic. The measures, which took effect on Monday, follow US President Donald Trump’s decision to abandon a multi-nation nuclear deal with Tehran, which he said was flawed and […]
Another arrested in Sirmaur’s Rs 40-lakh online fraud case
Shimla, Nov 4 (PTI) The Himachal Pradesh police has arrested another accused in the Rs 40-lakh online fraud case registered at Shillai Police Station here, officials said Sunday. A special investigation team (SIT) of Sirmaur police arrested the second accused, Satyajit Majumdar, from Kolkata in West Bengal, Sirmaur Superintendent of Police Rohit Malpani said. The […]
Teenage pilgrim enroute cave shrine of Mata Vaishnodevi in J-K
Jammu (PTI): A 14-year-old pilgrim, on his way to the cave shrine of Mata Vaishnodevi in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir, died Monday after falling unconscious, a senior police officer said. Prashant Singh, from Uttar Pradesh, suddenly fell down at Himkote enroute cave shrine in Trikuta hills and became unconscious while he was going […]
