LeT funding module busted in Jammu, 1 held
Jammu, July 20 (PTI) Police on Monday claimed to have busted a terror funding module of Pakistan-based militant organisation Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) tasked to activate its cadres in the Jammu region, with the arrest of one person, officials said. The police received information that LeT has activated a module of its members for carrying out activities […]
Covid-19 claims 2 more lives, JK toll touches 251
Srinagar, July 20: Kashmir Valley on Monday reported two more deaths attributed to covid-19, taking the fatality count due to the microbe to 251 in J&K. Sources said that both the deaths were reported in Srinagar and include 60-year-old man from Tankipora and 70-year-old-man from Zoonimar. Earlier three persons died—two of the deaths reported at […]
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman admitted to hospital for tests
Dubai, Jul 20 (AP) Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has been admitted to a hospital in the capital, Riyadh, for medical tests due to inflammation of the gallbladder, the kingdom’s Royal Court said Monday in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency. The statement said the 84-year-old monarch is being tested at the King […]
PDD employee dies of electrocution in Sopore
Sopore, July 20: A 45-year-old employee of Power Development Department (PDD) was electrocuted to death on Monday morning in Yaseen Colony Arampora Sopore in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Officials said that a PDD employee who was repairing a High volt 11000 KV line at Yaseen colony Arampora received an electric shock and died on the […]
Trooper commits suicide at Panthachowk camp
Srinagar, July 20: A paramilitary CRPF trooper allegedly ended his life by shooting himself with his service rifle in Panthachowk area of srinagar on Monday, officials said. They said that constable Biswajit Dutta of CRPF 29 battalion fired upon himself and died on the spot. The trooper on being spotted in pool of blood was […]
United Arab Emirates spacecraft blasts off from Japan
Tokyo, Jul 20 (AP) A United Arab Emirates spacecraft began its journey to Mars with a blast off in Japan on Monday in what is the Arab world’s first interplanetary mission. The launch of the spacecraft named Amal, or Hope, marks the start of the seven-month journey to the red planet. The launch, initially planned […]
UK accuses China of ‘egregious’ human rights abuses
London, Jul 20 (PTI) UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Sunday accused China of “gross and egregious” human rights abuses against its Uighur population and said sanctions against those responsible cannot be ruled out. Reports of forced sterilisation and wider persecution of the Muslim group were “reminiscent of something not seen for a long time”, […]
Woman, her two kids found dead in Delhi
New Delhi, Jul 20 (PTI) A 28-year-old woman and her two children were found dead under mysterious circumstances at their home in west Delhi’s Nihal Vihar on Sunday, police said. The woman has been identified as Preeti, they said. Police suspect that Preeti’s husband, who is a contractor, is behind the killings. He has been […]