Counting of votes for presidential election begins
New Delhi, Jul 21 (PTI) Counting of votes for the presidential election started here on Thursday to decide on incumbent Ram Nath Kovind’s successor. The process of counting the votes started at 11 am in room number 63 in Parliament House, where the ballot boxes brought from all the state assemblies were kept. National Democratic Alliance’s […]
Amid heavy rains, 4,700 pilgrims leave for Amarnath cave shrine from Jammu
Jammu, Jul 21 (PTI) Braving heavy rains, a fresh batch of over 4,703 Amarnath Yatra pilgrims left the Bhagwati Nagar base camp here for the twin base camps of Baltal and Pahalgam in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Thursday, officials said. The pilgrims left in a convoy of 156 vehicles escorted by the Central Reserve […]
Landslides lead to closure of J-K highway, 1000 vehicles stranded
Banihal/Jammu, July 21 (PTI) The Jammu-Srinagar national highway was closed for traffic due to landslides triggered by heavy rains at several places in Ramban district on Thursday, officials said. Nearly 1000 vehicles, including a convoy carrying Amarnath pilgrims, are stranded at different points of the highway, they said. The 270-km highway, the only all-weather road […]
MeT forecasts ‘fairly widespread’ rain in JK
Srinagar, July 21: The weatherman has forecast fairly widespread light to moderate rain and thunderstorms in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday. A meteorological department official here said that there was possibility of scattered to fairly widespread light to moderate rain and thunderstorms for subsequent two days also. He said rains lashed Jammu region and parts […]
Darul Uloom, two houses damaged in fire mishap at Khaniyar Srinagar
Srinagar, July 21: A Darul Uloom (Islamic seminary) and two residential houses were damaged in a massive fire in Khaniyar area of Srinagar on Thursday. A marriage hall and two more houses in the vicinity also suffered slight damage in the fire, the cause of which is being investigated, officials said. They said that fire […]
Two drug peddlers booked under PSA in Budgam, shifted to Reasi jail
Budgam, Jul 21: Two notorious drug peddlers have been booked under Public Safety Act in central Kashmir’s Budgam district, police said here on Thursday. According to a statement, issued here a police spokesperson said that two drug peddlers identified as Shabir Ahmed Sofi alias JK son of Abdul Khaliq Sofi of Mazhama Magam and Asif […]
COVID-19: India records 21,566 fresh cases, 45 more fatalities
New Delhi, Jul 21 (PTI) India saw a single-day rise of 21,566 coronavirus cases, the highest in 152 days, taking its COVID-19 tally to 4,38,25,185, while the number of active cases in the country climbed to 1,48,881 on Thursday, the Union health ministry said. The death toll due to the viral disease has gone up […]
JK Reports 434 fresh covid-19 cases, one fatality
Srinagar, July 20: Jammu and Kashmir reported 434 covid-19 cases during the past 24 hours, the highest single-day spike in more than five months, even as one more person succumbed to the virus, officials said. 248 cases were reported from Jammu division and 186 from Kashmir division, taking the overall tally to 457951, they said. […]
DGP decorates Vijay Kumar (IPS) on his promotion as ADGP
Srinagar July 20: Director General of Police Dilbag Singh on Wednesday decorated Vijay Kumar (IPS) on his promotion as ADGP in a function held at Police Headquarters at Srinagar. A police spokesman said that besides DGP Dilbag Singh, the pipping ceremony was attended by Special DG RR Swain, Special DG AK Chaudhury, ADGP S. J. […]
118 civilians killed since August 2019 in JK; 21 of them Hindus
New Delhi, Jul 20 (PTI) As many as 118 civilians, including five Kashmiri Pandits and 16 other Hindus and Sikhs, were killed in Jammu and Kashmir since the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019, the government said Wednesday. Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai also said in Rajya Sabha that 5,502 Kashmiri Pandits […]