Woman journalist shot at in east Delhi
New Delhi: A woman journalist was shot at allegedly by two masked men in east Delhi’s New Ashok Nagar area in a suspected case of family dispute. The 38-year-old woman — Mitali Chandola — received bullet injury in the arm and is out of danger, they said. The incident took place in the intervening night […]
Director Horticulture visits hailstorm affected areas in Pulwama, Shopian
SRINAGAR: Director Horticulture Kashmir, Ajaz Ahmad Bhat today visited various areas of Pulwama and Shopian to take stock of the damage done by Friday’s hailstorm in the region. The Director visited various villages of Pulwama including Sangarwani, Achgoza, Bamnoo, Muran, Karimabad, Burpore and Kagan wherein heavy hailstorm has caused extensive damage to fruits bearing trees. […]
Vaccination for Kupwara Hajj pilgrims from June 25
KUPWARA: The District Administration Kupwara today informed that vaccination programme for the Hajj Pilgrims coming various tehsils of District Kupwara will be carried out from 25th June 2019. According to an official handout issued here, in tehsil Kupwara and Drugmulla the vaccination programme for Hajj aspirants would be held at ANMT School Kupwara, near SDH […]
Sniffer dogs deployed to track terrorists in J&K’s Kishtwar
Jammu, (PTI): Sniffer dogs were pressed into service as a massive search operation to track down suspected terrorists in a forest area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district continued for the second day on Saturday, officials said. The Army and police had launched a search operation in the forest area near Keshwan village early on […]
Scores of tippers seized in nighttime crackdown on illegal constructions in Srinagar
SRINAGAR: The authorities in Srinagar late Friday night seized a large number of tipper trucks from various areas in a massive crackdown on land mafia involved in illegal constructions in the city. The seizure of over a hundred tipper trucks was made at different checkpoints set up across the Srinagar city in efforts to clampdown […]
FATF: India says Pak must take verifiable, irreversible steps against terrorism
New Delhi (PTI) India on Saturday said it expects Pakistan to take all necessary steps to effectively implement the FATF action plan fully by September and take credible, verifiable, and irreversible measures to address global concerns related to terrorism and terrorist financing emanating from its soil. In response to a media query regarding the FATF report, […]
Indian airlines to avoid Iranian airspace, will re-route flights: DGCA
New Delhi, Jun 22 (PTI) Amid rising geopolitical tensions between the US and Iran, India’s aviation regulator DGCA Saturday said Indian airlines have decided to avoid the “affected part of the Iranian airspace” and reroute their flight “suitably”. On Friday, the American aviation regulator, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), issued a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) prohibiting […]
Iran warns US attack would imperil interests across Mideast
Tehran,(AFP) Tehran warned Washington Saturday that any attack would see its interests across the Middle East go up in flames after US President Donald Trump said he called off a strike at the 11th hour. The aborted US military action was to have been in response to Iran’s downing of a US reconnaissance drone, which has […]
US report on global religious freedom shows bias against Modi: BJP
New Delhi (PTI) The US state department’s 2018 International Religious Freedom Report shows clear bias against the Narendra Modi government and the BJP, the saffron party said Saturday, asserting that its leaders had strongly deplored violence against minorities and weaker sections of society. The report, released on June 21, alleged that some senior leaders of […]
ACB Doda raids Executive Engineer Hydraulic Division Kishtwar’s office, conducts searches
Srinagar: Anti-Corruption Bureau Doda conducted surprise check of the office of Executive Engineer Hydraulic Division Kishtwar. Officials told KNO that the search was conducted in the office on the basis of a complaint about drawal of carriage charges of material in excess of the prevalent government rates. It has also been alleged that the […]