Bahrain opposition chief gets life in jail over Qatar spy case
Dubai: Bahrain’s appeals court sentenced the head of the country’s Shiite opposition movement to jail for life Sunday over charges of spying for rival Gulf state Qatar, a judicial source said. Sheikh Ali Salman, who headed the now-outlawed Al-Wefaq movement, had been acquitted by the high criminal court in June, a verdit the public prosecution […]
Valley shivers post snowfall, weather to improve late afternoon
Srinagar: The minimum temperatures across the Kashmir Valley dropped below the freezing point on Sunday with Srinagar recording this season’s coldest night so far at minus 0.4 degrees Celsius, the Met Department said. The temperature in Pahalgam was minus 0.5 degrees Celsius, Gulmarg minus 5.0, Leh minus 1.5 while Kargil was at minus 4.6. According […]
Even after 24 hours PDD failed to restore power supply: Congress
Srinagar: J&K Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) President G.A. Mir Sunday expressed his dismay over the failure of the government to restore the basic services that were hit owing to few inches of snowfall in the valley. G.A. Mir expressed concern over the power crisis, saying that even after 22 hours, the PDD has filed to […]
Untimely snowfall: Trade body rues failure of administration
Srinagar: Kashmir Economic Alliance (KEA) Chairman Muhammad Yasin Khan Sunday said that the administration failed miserably as valley witnessed a few inches of snowfall on Saturday. He said that the valley witnessed poorest-ever civic amenities being provided to the people. Kashmir in general and summer capital of Srinagar in particular are reeling under administrative chaos. […]
Shopian gunfight: Family, locals reject police claim, maintain Shahid was a civilian
Question police’s vague statement, reference to 2004 case Srinagar: Locals on Sunday rejected police claims regarding civilian Shahid Manzoor Mir, one of the two persons killed during an encounter in Khudpora, Gagran area of south Kashmir’s Shopian district. The other slain has been identified as Irfan Ahmad Bhat son of Ali Mohammad of Bandzoo Pulwama […]
9-yr-old girl killed, 3 injured in landslide
Jammu: A nine-year-old girl was killed and three members of a nomadic family were injured when a landslide struck their tent in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, a police official said on Sunday. A Bakarwal family had set up a ‘dera’ (tent accommodation) at Chatyar village near a shrine which came under a landslide […]
Lightning strike kills man in Uri
Srinagar: A 38-year old man died due to lightning at forest area of Gowhalan, Uri in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Saturday morning. Official sources said that the natural calamity struck forest area at Gowhalan today morning. Shabir Ahmad Tehklee son of Mir Alam who came under the lightening was immediately rushed to a nearby hospital […]
Unable to read doctors’ handwriting, court seeks printed medico legal reports
Lucknow: Fed up of summoning doctors to decipher medico-legal reports, the Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court has ordered that computer printed reports be provided along with the original handwritten reports. Making the observation on Friday, a division bench of justice Ajai Lamba and justice D K Singh said the unreadable handwritten reports, produced before the […]
Encounter breaks out in Shopian village
Shopian: Gunfight has started between Militants and Government Forces in the Khudpora Memander village of Arwani in South Kashmir’s Shopian District this evening amid heavy snowfall. Officials said that 44 RR of Indian Army, SOG of Jammu Kashmir Police, 23Para and CRPF jointly launched CASO. Forces had launched a Cordon and Search Operation in the area upon […]
Most of 33KV lines damaged by heavy snowfall, restoration underway: Chief Engineer PDD
Srinagar: Chief Engineer PDD Kashmir, Hashmat Qazi, Saturday evening said that heavy snowfall in the Valley has resulted in trees with thick foliage coming down heavily on electrical lines damaging most of the 33KV lines. He said intermittent rainfall and now heavy snowfall led to frequent faults in the electrical system affecting supply in most […]