PDD worker dies in Sopore
Sopore: A 40 year old casual labourer of Power Development Department (PDD) died after an electric pole fell on him during repairing transmission line in Sopore outskirts in north Kashmir. “A casual labourer died after an electric pole which he was repairing fell on him at Harwan area of Sopore. However he was rushed to […]
Leh coldest place in J-K
Srinagar: Leh was the coldest recorded place in Jammu and Kashmir as the cold wave persisting in the valley and Ladakh region with the minimum temperature going down at most places last night. Leh town, in the frontier Ladakh region of the state, recorded a low of minus 11.4 degrees Celsius a decrease of over […]
Two drug peddlers held in Jammu
Jammu: Two suspected drug peddlers were arrested after heroin and cash were recovered from their possession in R S Pura area here, police said today. Acting on specific information about the presence of drug peddlers, police conducted a raid at Chohala last evening. Mukesh Kumar and Balwinder Kumar tried to run away but were chased […]
2017, a relatively calm year for J&K
Srinagar: After a tumultuous 2016, Kashmir witnessed a relatively calm year but there were many issues, including the legal challenge in the Supreme Court to Article 35-A of the Constitution pertaining to special residency laws of Jammu and Kashmir, that hogged national headlines. However, one of the biggest stories emanating from Kashmir in 2017 was […]
14 killed, 19 injured in Mumbai building fire
Mumbai: Fourteen people were killed and 19 others injured after a major fire broke out in a building in Kamala Mills Compound in Lower Parel here, an official said today. The fire broke out shortly after midnight on the third floor of the four-storeyed building on Senapati Bapat Marg, a commercial hub of the city, […]
SBI ATM stolen in Bijbehara
Anantnag: Unidentified robbers decamped with an automated teller machine (ATM) of State Bank of India (SBI) in Bijbehara area of Anantnag district, police said on Friday. “The robbers broke open the ATM at Arwani crossing of Bijbehara area during intervening night”, said a police official. The official said that the amount of cash in the […]
Clashes erupt during CASO in Pulwama village
Pulwama: Clashes erupted between government forces and locals in Kareemabad village of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Friday. Reports said that the clashes erupted after government forces started a Cordon and Search Operation (CASO) in Kareemabad village after receiving specific inputs about the presence of militants in the area. Soon after the search operation was […]
Saudi-led air raids kill 68 Yemen civilians in one day: UN
Sanaa: Sixty-eight Yemeni civilians were killed in two separate air raids by the Saudi-led Arab coalition in one day, the UN humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen Jamie McGoldrick said today. The first air strike on Tuesday hit a “crowded popular market” in Taez province, killing 54 civilians including eight children, and wounding 32 others, he said in […]
MMSM Gold Cup Phase II: Ali Sports Hajin, Ferrari Lions Ganderbal, Iqra FC Dachigam emerge victorious
Srinagar: Three knockout matches of second phase of first Mufti Mohammad Syed Memorial Gold Cup League Football Tournament-2017 were played at Synthetic Turf TRC in Srinagar on December 27. The second phase of the event which started on December 22, is going on at full swing. In the first match of the day, Ali Sports […]
Zonal sports festival on in full swing
Srinagar: Zonal level Sports Festival 2017 which was kick started on 26th December 2017 at Gindhan Stadium Rajbagh Srinagar continued on 3rd day.Various games including cricket, football, folleyball, kabbadi, kho-kho, tug-of-war, athletics, martial art etc are being played during the event. Besides police officers, large number of participants & spectators were present on the occasion. […]