Authorities in Pak arrest two officials of Indian High Commission
Islamabad: Two officials of the Indian High Commission were arrested on Monday for their alleged involvement in a hit-and-run incident in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, according to media reports here. A BMW car hit a pedestrian who was walking on the city’s Embassy Road at around 8am and its occupants allegedly attempted to flee from the […]
India lodges protest
New Delhi: India on Monday summoned the Pakistan charge d’affaires and lodged a strong protest to him over the reported arrest of two officials of the Indian High Commission in Islamabad. Pakistani media reported that two Indian staffers, who went missing on Monday morning, were arrested by Pakistani authorities for their alleged involvement in a […]
Cherry fails to blossom: Fearing more losses, growers in South Kashmir leave cherries to rot

Shopian: Fearing more losses, growers in south Kashmir are avaoding picking up cherry fruit from the trees. The growers are letting the crop to rot as the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic is inflicting huge losses for the growers. Growers say that the part of the produce that was transported to outside markets was not able to […]
RR Swain replaces B Srinivas as intelligence chief
Srinagar: The government on Tuesday ordered appointment of RR Swain, an IPS officer of 1991 batch, as new intelligence chief of Jammu & Kashmir. Swain, who held key positions in the erstwhile state of J&K at the peak of militancy, returned to J&K after spending more than 10-years in the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) […]
LoC Flare up: Locals fear for their lives as hostilities continue
Tasaduq Hussain Uri (Baramulla): Fear is visible on the faces of every single resident here so is uncertainty. The people living in the border areas have once again been witnessing exchange of small to heavy weapons by the Indian and Pakistani army which most of the times turns Uri area of north Kashmir into no […]
PaK ‘brides’ petition PM Modi: Give us citizenship rights or deport us back to Muzafarabad
Srinagar: Scores of women who hail from Pakistan administered Kashmir (PaK) Monday staged a protest in Srinagar and urged the Government of India to repatriate them back along with their husbands and children or to give them citizenship rights so that they can live with dignity. In 1990, hundreds of youth went across the LoC […]
Mughal Road opens today, only load carriers to ply
Srinagar: Divisional Commissioner Kashmir on Monday directed the opening of the Mughal road for downward traffic to facilitate the transportation of fresh-fruits along the historic road- connecting Srinagar and Jammu. As per a notification, the administrative head Kashmir division Pandurang Kondbharao Pole notified that for the information of general public and fruit growers that the […]
It is a serious diplomatic lapse, says Karan Singh
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Karan Singh on Monday hit out at the government over the escalating Indo-Nepal border row, saying prima-facie this appears to have been a serious diplomatic lapse”. The communist government of Nepal on Saturday managed to get a unanimous approval of the lower house of the country’s Parliament to a new […]
Youth commits ‘suicide’ in Ramban
Ramban: A 22-year-old youth allegedly committed suicide by hanging self in Adhwa area of Ramban here on Monday afternoon, police officials said. They said the youth identified as Amarjeet Singh Manhas a resident of Adhwa in the district was spotted hanging from a tree, adjacent to his house this afternoon. The deceased, as per the […]
India no longer weak, will not compromise on national pride: Rajnath on border row with China

New Delhi: Amid a standoff with China on the Ladakh border, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Sunday that India will never compromise on its “national pride”, asserting that its security capability has risen and it is no longer a “weak” country. Speaking at a virtual ‘Jan Samvad’ rally for Jammu and Kashmir, Singh also […]