Seven schoolchildren injured in Udhampur bus accident
Udhampur/Jammu: Seven schoolchildren were injured on Wednesday when the bus they were travelling in skidded off the road and fell into a ditch in Udhampur district, police said. The accident took place in the Omara area, they said. The injured were hospitalised, police said, adding that a case has been registered.
Soldier dies of bullet injury near LoC in Poonch
Mendhar/Jammu: An Army personnel died of a bullet injury from his own service rifle near the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district, a police official said on Wednesday. Sepoy Amritpal Singh was deployed to a forward post in the Mankote Sector. His colleagues found him in a pool of blood after hearing a gunshot […]
President Murmu to attend convocation ceremony at KU
Security bolstered in Srinagar, other areas
Srinagar: Security has been beefed up in Srinagar and adjoining areas ahead of President Droupadi Murmu’s visit to Kashmir on Wednesday during which she will attend the convocation ceremony of Kashmir University, officials said here. Security forces, including police and paramilitary CRPF, have been deployed in adequate numbers around Kashmir University a day ahead of […]
Two LeT terrorists killed in Shopian encounter
Srinagar: Two terrorists of the proscribed Lashkar-e-Taiba were killed in an encounter with security forces in south Kashmir’s Shopian district on Tuesday, police said. The encounter broke out in the early hours of Tuesday after security forces launched an anti-militancy operation following information about the presence of ultras in the district’s Alshipora area, they said. […]
Justice has been done, says slain bank guards wife
Jammu: Sunita Sharma, wife of ATM guard Sanjay Sharma who was gunned down by terrorists in February, on Tuesday thanked security forces for eliminating the killer of her husband and said justice has been done with her. Sanjay Sharma (40), a Kashmiri Pandit, was shot dead by terrorists in the Achan area of south Kashmir’s […]
CS interacts with newly appointed ALRs, DLOs
Asks them to defend the weak and underprivileged
SRINAGAR: Chief Secretary, Dr Arun Kumar Mehta Tuesday met the newly appointed Assistant Legal Remembrancers (ALRs)/District Litigation Officers (DLOs) in presence of the Secretary Law, AchalSethi here. On the occasion the Chief Secretary impressed upon these candidates to work with full dedication and honesty and defend all the cases on behalf of the government with […]
Transparency, speed of implementation transformed JK: Lt Guv
Reviews performance and expenditures of Centrally Sponsored Schemes
SRINAGAR: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Tuesday said that transparency and speed of implementation have played a pivotal role in enabling transformation of J&K in the last three years. Chairing a high-level meeting at Civil Secretariat to review the implementation and sector-wise progress of the Centrally Sponsored Schemes he said that 100% utilization of allocation […]
IMF outlook worsens for a ‘limping’ world economy
Mideast war poses new uncertainty
Bangkok: The world economy has lost momentum from the impact of higher interest rates, the invasion of Ukraine and widening geopolitical rifts, and it now faces new uncertainty from the war between Israel and Hamas militants, International Monetary Fund warned Tuesday. The IMF said it expects global economic growth to slow to 2.9 per cent […]
Death toll reaches over 2,000 in western Herat earthquake
Zinda Jan (Afghanistan): Clinging to hope that finding survivors was still possible, Afghan rescuers and villagers kept digging through rubble in western Herat province on Tuesday, three days after one of the deadliest earthquakes in the region left more than 2,000 dead. Elsewhere in Herat, people were digging graves for loved ones killed in Saturday’s […]
RSS chief Bhagwat to undertake 3-day tour of JK from Friday
Jammu: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat will be in Jammu and Kashmir for a three-day tour beginning October 13, the organisation said in a statement on Tuesday. Bhagwat’s visit to the Union territory comes amid RSS leaders travelling across the country to review the functioning of the organisation, according to the statement. During the […]
