Media watchdog warns India over spike in journos’ killings in first Incident Report
Agencies India may slip further from its current 138th place in the World Press Freedom Index as four journalists were murdered in less than six months amidst a sharp rise in hate speech, a global media watchdog warned today in its first report on the country. The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said it had come out with a report exclusively […]
Governor reviews SVC functioning; presented with the 5th Annual Report of Vigilance Commission
Srinagar, July 4: Governor N. N. Vohra reviewed the functioning of State Vigilance Commission (SVC) on receiving the 5th Annual Report of the Commission with Sh. P.L. Gupta, Chief Vigilance Commissioner (CVC), Srinagar. The report contained to-date status of the complaints received by the Commission, action taken for their disposal and the conclusions arrived at by […]
Doctors Strike: Govt to invoke ESMA
SRINAGAR, : Jammu and Kashmir Government has decided to invoke Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) to deal with the strike called by the doctors in various health institutions of the State. “The Government can’t allow the hapless patients to suffer and in order to ensure that there is no disruption of healthcare services, it has been […]
Uruguay Army official appointed head of UNMOGIP
United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed a veteran Uruguay Army general as the chief military observer of the UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan. Major General Jose Eladio Alcain will succeed the incumbent UNMOGIP chief Major General Per Gustaf Lodin of Sweden, who will complete his two-year assignment this month, an […]
Residential house, crops damaged due to cloud burst in Tral
Srinagar, : One residential house got partially damaged while the embankment of Chandriyad Nallah got damaged in Naristan area of Tral in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district due to the cloud burst on late Tuesday evening. According to the KNS correspondent, Syed Aijaz, locals said that embankment of streams and the crops got damaged in the […]
Won’t return to India till I feel ‘safe’: Zakir Naik
Mumbai: Dr Zakir Naik, the Islamic scholar and preacher who has been staying abroad to evade arrest in various cases in India, today said he would not return home till he felt “safe from unfair prosecution”. Naik’s statement, issued through his PRO, came amid reports that he was being deported to India from Malaysia. “The […]
7 Amarnath pilgrims injured in accident on Srinagar-Jammu highway
Jammu: Seven Amarnath Yatra pilgrims were injured on Wednesday in an accident on the Jammu-Srinagar highway in the Ramban district. A vehicle carrying the pilgrims to the Kashmir Valley met with the accident in Chanderkote area, a police officer said. The injured have been shifted to hospitals. Three pilgrims died on Tuesday after a landslide […]
Flood threat in Kashmir is over: Sonum Lotus
Srinagar : Even as the intermittent rains continue to lash Valley, the local Meteorological department here on Wednesday said that the flood threat that loomed in Kashmir is over now. Director Meteorological (MeT) department, Sonum Lotus said that there was no flood threat in Kashmir as the weather has improved from past couple of days. “There is […]
Shutdown in Pulwama village against alleged vandalism by army
Srinagar : A shutdown was observed in Rohmoo village of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Wednesday against the alleged harassment by the army during the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday. According to the locals during the hours of stay in the village beside damaging the properties many locals were also thrashed during the night. The […]
Bomb kills 3 oil company employees in southwestern Pakistan
Pakistani police say a bomb detonated by remote control killed three workers doing a survey for a local oil exploration company in the country’s southwest. Local police official Mohammad Hussain says Tuesday’s bombing near the town of Dera Bugti in the Baluchistan province also wounded five surveyors. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but […]
