Kupwara gets highest snowfall in Kashmir
Srinagar, Dec 30: Amid cloud cover, minimum temperature recorded further increase in Kashmir Valley on Friday after a mild snowfall was recorded earlier. Kupwara in north Kashmir received highest snowfall of 20cms (7.87 inches) followed by Gulmarg (16.5cm), Qazigund(15.0cm), Pahalgam(10.0cm), Kokernag (5.0 cm), and Srinagar (3.0 cm) in last 24 hours till 0830 hours, mostly […]
Prez Murmu, BJP and Congress leaders condole passing away of PM Modi’s mother
New Delhi, Dec 30 (PTI) President Droupadi Murmu on Friday condoled the passing away of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mother Hiraben. Murmu said Modi imbibed the values of Hiraben in his life. “I pray for the peace of the holy soul. My condolences to the family!” the president tweeted. BJP leaders also paid tributes to […]
13 houses, 10 shops damaged in Anantnag blaze
Srinagar, Dec 30: At least 13 “inter-connected” houses and around ten shops were gutted in a massive midnight fire, augmented by the blast of “ten gas (LPG) cylinders”, in Dangarpora area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, officials said on Friday. Leading firefighter of the concerned Fire and Emergency Services Department said that at least 200 […]
Police rescue 52 tourists stranded in Budgam
Srinagar, Dec 30 (PTI) Police rescued 52 tourists stranded due to snowfall at Parihaas Doodhpathri in Budgam district on Thursday, an official said. The police received information that some tourists were stuck at Parihaaas Doodhpathri due to the sudden snowfall, a police spokesperson said. Accordingly, a team from Khansahib police station and personnel deployed on […]
Death toll climbs as blizzard-battered Buffalo area digs out
Buffalo (US), Dec 30 (AP) Roads reopened Thursday in storm-besieged Buffalo as authorities continued searching for people who may have died or are stuck and suffering after last week’s blizzard. The driving ban in New York’s second-most-populous city was lifted just after midnight Thursday, Mayor Byron Brown announced. At least 40 deaths in western New […]
PM Modi’s mother Hiraben passes away
Ahmedabad, Dec 30 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mother Hiraben passed away at a hospital in Ahmedabad on Friday. She was 99. A bulletin from the UN Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Research Centre, where she was admitted on Wednesday after her health deteriorated, informed the news of her demise. “Hiraben Modi passed away on […]
Mughal Road, Sgr-Leh Highway Closed Amid Snowfall
Srinagar, Dec 29: The historic Mughal road, connecting twin districts of Poonch and Rajouri with Shopian, as well as Srinagar-Leh highway were closed after fresh snowfall. A traffic department official here however said that traffic was plying on Jammu-Srinagar highway, the only surface link connecting Kashmir Valley with outside world. “Mughal road and SSG road […]
CBI arrests Defence Accounts Service officer in Rs 10 lakh bribery case
New Delhi, Dec 29 (PTI) The CBI has arrested an officer of the Indian Defence Accounts Service in a case of alleged bribery of Rs 10 lakh, officials said on Thursday. It is alleged that a company based in Jind in Haryana had transferred the money to a middleman seeking favours from the 1988-batch officer, […]
Security of borders can be ensured by bravery, alertness of soldiers, not by fencing: Amit Shah
New Delhi, Dec 29 (PTI) Pillars and fences along the borders are no match to alertness and bravery of soldiers guarding them which is further augmented by patriotic villagers living in close vicinity to the forward locations, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Thursday. While launching a mobile application ‘Prahari’ prepared in-house by the […]
Srinagar records season’s first snowfall
Srinagar, Dec 29 (PTI) Srinagar and other areas in the Kashmir plains received light snowfall, the season’s first, on Thursday while moderate snow broke the dry spell in the Valley’s higher reaches, officials said. Most of the plains in the Valley, including Srinagar, received light snowfall from late in the afternoon, they said. The snowfall […]