Diesel price for bulk users hiked Rs 25/ltr; pvt retailers stare closure
New Delhi, Mar 20 (PTI) The price of diesel sold to bulk users has been hiked by about Rs 25 per litre in line with a near 40 per cent rise in international oil prices, but retail rates at petrol pumps remain unchanged, sources said. Petrol pump sales have jumped by a fifth this month […]
Pak brainwashing youth, exploiting religious fault lines in JK: Officials
New Delhi, Mar 20 (PTI) In a change in its strategy in fomenting the three-decade-long cross-border terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan is again employing the tactics of brainwashing the local youth in the name of religion and exploiting the “religious fault lines”, officials said here on Sunday. The change in tactics should also be […]
Covid: 2 new cases in Ladakh
Leh, Mar 20 (PTI) Ladakh reported two fresh COVID-19 cases that pushed the infection tally to 28,202, officials said on Sunday. Nine patients recovered from the disease, taking the overall recoveries to 27,934, they said. The number of active cases stands at 40 – 38 in Leh district and two in Kargil district, officials said. No […]
Night temperature declines in JK as rains lash several parts
Srinagar, Mar 20: Amid cloud cover and rain in some parts, night temperatures recorded a drop across Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday. A meteorological department official said that Srinagar, the summer capital of J&K, received 0.3mm of rainfall in 24 hours till 0830 hours and recorded a low of 8.2°C against last night’s 10.7°C. The […]
Shopian man held with 15 kg charas in Kathua
Jammu, Mar 20 (PTI) An alleged drug peddler was arrested with over 15 kg of charas in Kathua district, police said on Sunday. Manzoor Ahmad Darzi, a resident of Pinjoora village of south Kashmir’s Shopian, was travelling in his car when he was stopped for checking near the tourism building in Lakhanpur, leading to the […]
Injured in a hit and run case, Kupwara cop succumbs
Srinagar, Mar 20: A policeman injured in a hit-and-run case in Handwara succumbed at a hospital here on Sunday morning, officials said. They said that the policeman Khurshid Ahmad Mallik son of Abdul Ahad Malik, a resident of Hangah Mawer was fatally injured after hit by an unknown vehicle at Kralgund area in Handwara on […]
Thousands flee Mariupol as Russians advance
Mariupol, Mar 20 (AP) Evacuations from Ukraine’s besieged cities proceeded Saturday along eight of 10 humanitarian corridors, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said, with a total of 6,623 people were evacuated, including 4,128 from Mariupol who were taken northwest to Zaporizhzhia. Russian forces pushed deeper into the besieged and battered port city of Mariupol, where […]
Home Minister Shah visits site of proposed high-security prison in Kathua
Jammu, Mar 20 (PTI) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday visited the site where a high-security prison is to be constructed for lodging “treasonous and insurgent criminals” in Kathua district, officials said. Accompanied by J&K Lt Governor Manoj Sinha, Shah was briefed about the project details by the Director General of Police, Prisons, B […]
Japan announces Rs 3.2 lakh crore investment target in India in next 5 years
New Delhi, Mar 20 (PTI) In a big-ticket move, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Saturday announced an investment target of five trillion yen (Rs 3,20,000 crore) in India over the next five years as the two sides concluded a raft of agreements and collaborations to further expand their special strategic and global partnership. Following […]