Woman dies after falling from train in Samba
Jammu, Apr 3 (PTI) A woman aged around 35 years died after she fell from a running train in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district, an official said on Monday. The unidentified woman fell down from Jammu Mail Express on the railway track near Vijaypur on Sunday evening, the Government Railway Police (GRP) official said, adding […]
COVID-19: India records 3,641 fresh cases, 11 deaths
New Delhi, Apr 3 (PTI) India recorded a single-day jump of 3,641 fresh COVID-19 cases as the active caseload rose to 20,219, according to Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday. The toll has risen to 5,30,892 with 11 deaths — three from Maharashtra and one each in Delhi, Kerala, Karnataka and Rajasthan — recorded […]
CBI’s key responsibility is to free India from corruption: PM Modi
New Delhi, Apr 3 (PTI) Building a developed India is not possible without professional and efficient institutions and the CBI therefore has a huge responsibility, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday. Addressing the diamond jubilee celebrations of the Central Bureau of Investigation, the prime minister termed corruption the biggest roadblock to democracy and justice. […]
Kupwara minor girls killing: Police arrests father for murder
Kupwara, Apr 3: Six days after the throat-slit body of a minor girl was recovered in Zab village of Khurhama area in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district, police on Monday announced to have worked out the case by arresting her father for the brutal crime. Addressing reporters here, SSP Kupwara Yougal Manhas said that the accused, […]
India’s manufacturing PMI hits 3-month high in Mar amid demand resilience
New Delhi, Apr 3 (PTI) Manufacturing activities in India touched a three-month high in March boosted by faster expansions in new orders and output amid demand resilience and easing of cost pressures, according to a monthly survey. The seasonally adjusted S&P Global India Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) rose from 55.3 in February to 56.4 […]
MeT forecasts ‘fairly widespread’ rains in JK
Srinagar, Apr 3: The weather department here forecast fairly widespread light to moderate rain and thunderstorm over Jammu and Kashmir during next 24 hours. A meteorological department official here said that fairly widespread to scattered light rain and thunderstorm was expected during the subsequent two days in J&K. Regarding rainfall during the last 24 hours […]
Oil prices soar on producer output cuts; Asian shares mixed
Bangkok, Apr 3 (AP) Oil prices soared more than 5% after Saudi Arabia and other major oil producers said they will cut production by 1.15 million barrels per day from May until the end of the year. Shares in Asia were mixed on Monday and the dollar rose against the Japanese yen. U.S. benchmark crude […]
32 dead as tornadoes torment from Arkansas to Delaware in US
Wynne (US), Apr 3: Residents across a wide swath of the US raced Sunday to assess the destruction from fierce storms that spawned possibly dozens of tornadoes from the South and the Midwest into the Northeast, killing at least 32 people. The storms tore a path through the Arkansas capital and also collapsed the roof […]
Package suspected to be dropped by drone found in Samba, area cordoned off
Samba/Jammu, Apr 3 (PTI) A package suspected to have been airdropped by a drone from across the International Border was found in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district on Monday, prompting police to cordon off the area, official sources said. The package was found early on Monday near the railway line in Rakh Barotiya, they said. […]
Army vehicle damaged as shooting stones disrupts traffic on Jammu-Srinagar NH
Banihal/Jammu, Apr 2 (PTI) An army vehicle suffered damage in shooting of stones from a hillock near the recently opened T-5 tunnel on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway on Sunday but no personnel were injured, officials said. Ramban Deputy Commissioner Mussarat Islam took serious note of the matter and asked the National Highways Authority of India […]