‘Apni’ party to emerge on JK’s political canvas on Sunday

Srinagar: A new political party called the ‘Jammu and Kashmir Apni (own) Party’ (JKAP) will be launched on Sunday and will be led by former state finance minister Syed Altaf Bukhari, with a primary aim of proving “relief to people who have been facing uncertainty since August 5 last year”. This will be the first […]

Muzaffar Baig unlikely to join the party

Nasir Azam Srinagar: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) patron Muzaffar Hussain Baig is unlikely to be part of new political party as talks between him and former finance minister Altaf Bukhari over the leadership issues has reached a dead-end, sources disclosed. Sources familiar with the negotiations said that talks between him and Bukhari failed due to […]

CISF takes charge of security of Jammu airport

Jammu/New Delhi: The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) took over the security of the Jammu airport on Friday with the deployment of around 300 personnel, officials said. On February 26, the central force had similarly been inducted to guard the Srinagar airport in Jammu-Kashmir. While the induction of the force at the two airports in […]

Jammu-Srinagar highway blocked due to multiple landslides

Jammu: The 270-kilometre Jammu-Srinagar national highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with the rest of the country, was blocked due to multiple landslides triggered by heavy rains in Ramban district on Friday, officials said. Vehicular traffic on the strategic highway was disrupted due to multiple landslides forcing over 400 vehicles to halt at different […]

Labourer killed in avalanche in Ganderbal

Srinagar: A labourer was killed while another was rescued after they came under a snow avalanche in Ganderbal district of central Kashmir on Friday, police said. The avalanche struck Royal Gund area in the central Kashmir district in the afternoon, a police official said. He said rescue teams immediately swung into action and saved one […]

27 killed in attack on Afghan political rally: officials

Kabul: At least 27 people were killed in an attack on a political rally in Kabul on Friday, officials said, in the deadliest assault in Afghanistan since the US signed a withdrawal deal with the Taliban. The attack highlights the glaring lack of security in the heavily fortified Afghan capital just 14 months ahead of […]

Elderly man dies in grenade blast in Old city

Gunman shoots civilian dead in Tral

Srinagar: A 62-year-old man died and another was injured in a grenade blast at Zainakadal area of Srinagar city on Friday evening. A police official said that militants lobbed a grenade on a CRPF bunker at Zainakadal in Old City. Two pedestrians suffered splinter injuries and were immediately shifted to SMHS hospital, the officer said. […]

Pulwama attack: NIA arrests two more accused

Srinagar: Sleuths from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested two more accused in connection with Pulwama attack. One of the accused is the son of a Junior Engineer. An NIA official said that in the continuing investigation of the Pulwama attack last year in which more than 40 CRPF personnel were killed, NIA arrested two […]

Coronavirus scare reaches Kashmir

Five persons with travel history to affected countries isolated in Srinagar hospital

Srinagar: Health authorities in Kashmir have kept five persons with a recent history of travelling to coronavirus-affected countries in the isolation ward of the SKIMS hospital here after they showed symptoms of the disease, officials said on Thursday. “We have kept the five persons in the isolation ward at the SKIMS hospital in Soura,” they […]