Added on November 28, 2020
Press Trust of India
Srinagar: Srinagar Mayor Junaid Azim Mattu on Friday joined the Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) here, days after winning the coveted post of the city’s civic body. Mattu joined the JKAP — led by former finance minister Altaf Bukhair — at the party’s head office in the Lal Chowk area of the city here, […]
Added on November 28, 2020
Press Trust of India
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday directed the government to ensure that all steps be taken to implement its decision to forego interest on eight specified categories of loans paid upto Rs two crore in view of the coronavirus pandemic. A bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan said the COVID-19 pandemic has not only caused […]
Added on November 28, 2020
Press Trust of India
Denies claims of house arrest
Srinagar: Kashmir is an “open air prison where no one has the right to express their opinion, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti said on Friday after the authorities barred her from holding a press conference at her residence here where she claimed she was placed under house arrest in the morning. The former Jammu and Kashmir […]
Added on November 28, 2020
Press Trust of India
Jammu: PDP leader Waheed Parra was remanded to 15 days of National Investigation Agency (NIA) custody on Friday following his arrest earlier this week for allegedly conspiring with Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists to get their support during the 2019 parliamentary elections. Parra was taken to Jammu and produced before a designated NIA court in a case […]
Added on November 28, 2020
Press Trust of India
Jammu: Two Army jawans were killed on Friday as Pakistani troops opened heavy fire and shelled mortars along the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district, a defence official said. He said the Indian Army immediately responded to the unprovoked firing from across the border. “The Pakistani army resorted to unprovoked ceasefire on the Line […]
Added on November 28, 2020
KV News
Srinagar: The Jammu & Kashmir government has authorised director general of police (prisons) to extend special parole of convicts by eight more weeks if the COVID-19 pandemic situation in the UT does not improve or further worsens. According to an order issued by Home department of J&K Union Territory, DGP Prisons has been empowered to […]
Added on November 28, 2020
Press Trust of India
Hyderabad: The Indian Council of Medical Research has approved a dry swab RNA- extraction-free testing method for the COVID-19 virus developed by CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, CCMB said here on Friday. Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is an important macromolecule that is present in all biological cells. In the conventional testing method, nasopharyngeal or oropharyngeal […]
Added on November 27, 2020
KV News
Attackers decamp with rifle, police suspects LeT hand
Srinagar: Two soldiers were killed as militants attacked an army patrol near HMT area on the outskirts of Srinagar district on Thursday. The militants also decamped with one rifle of the soldiers before fleeing from the area which has a heavy security presence. A police officer said that militants carried out the attack at around […]
Added on November 27, 2020
KV News
Poonch: A junior commissioner officer (JCO) was killed and a civilian injured in firing and mortar shelling by Pakistan army along Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district, officials said on Thursday. They said at about 1330 hours, Pakistan army initiated “unprovoked ceasefire violation” by firing small arms and mortar shells along LoC in Qasba […]
Added on November 27, 2020
Press Trust of India
Islamabad: Pakistan on Thursday summoned a senior diplomat from the Indian High Commission here to register its protest over the alleged “ceasefire violations” by the Indian forces along the Line of Control (LoC). The Foreign Office said that due to “indiscriminate and unprovoked firing” in Bagsar Sector of the LoC on Wednesday, 33-year-old Ansar, a […]
