Police arrested two drug peddlers in Awantipora
Continuing its drive against drug peddlers, Awantipora Police arrested two drug peddlers near Imamabara Wakherwan Awantipora. As per police statement issued to Rising Kashmir the two arrested drug peddlers have been identified as Ishfaq Ahmad Bhat resident of Renzipora and Waseem Ahmad Wani resident of Baderwan Pulwama and were arrested while they were travelling in […]
Income Tax Deptt Raids In Srinagar
Srinagar, Oct 22,: Income Tax Department on Thursday raided two malls in central Kashmir’s Srinagar district. Sources told news agency KDC, that Income Tax department sleuths accompanied by police and CRPF raided MS Mall on Residency road and City Walk Mall on MA road Srinagar and were conducting searches. “The purpose of the raids was […]
14-year-old boy dies by suicide in north Kashmir
Srinagar: A 14-year-old boy allegedly died by suicide by hanging himself at his maternal uncle’s home in Plan area of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Thursday. An official told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the boy (name withheld), a resident of Nowpora locality of Bandipora hanged himself at his maternal uncle’s home today. […]
Cybersecurity tops corporate priorities in India now: Study
Organisations in India are seeing a significant increase in the cybersecurity challenges they face amid the shift to mass remote working, a new study by Cisco shows. According to the study, 73 per cent of organisations in the country have experienced a 25 per cent or more jump in either cyber threats or alerts since […]
RCB moves to 2nd spot; KL, Rabada hold on to their Caps
Royal Challengers Bangalore have moved to the second spot in the points table following their one-sided victory against Kolkata Knight Riders in the 39th match of the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL). On Wednesday evening, RCB first restricted KKR to mere 84/8 in their allotted 20 overs and then chased down the target with ease, […]
US places curbs on six more Chinese media outlets
WASHINGTON: The United States on Wednesday tightened rules on six more Chinese media organisations, saying that they are propaganda outlets that answer to the state. It was the third round of US designations of Chinese outlets as “foreign missions,” which requires them to report details on their US-based staff and real estate transactions to the […]
Two militants surrender after their families brought to gunfight site in Sopore: IGP
Srinagar: In a rare incident two militants who were encircled by forces in Tujjar area of North Kashmir’s Sopore surrendered before police on Thrusday. Inspector-General of Police Kashmir Vijay Kumar told a local news gathering agency Global News Service (GNS) that after militants were encircled by forces on a tip off surrendered before Police. IGP […]
COVID-19: India records 55,839 new infections, 702 deaths
New Delhi: The number of coronavirus infections reported in a span of 24 hours remained below 60,000 for the fourth consecutive day on Thursday as India’s caseload went past 77 lakh, while recoveries have crossed 68 lakh, according to data updated by the Union Health Ministry. The COVID-19 caseload mounted to 77,06,946 with 55,839 new infections […]
Political alliance
Political alliance recently formed by mainstream political parties including National Conference and PDP is going to set its agenda and pace in the coming days. Although the central government has said that the statehood would be given back to Jammu and Kashmir but the recently formed alliance is not inclined to be its taker in […]
LAHDC polls underway amid tight security arrangements in Leh
Leh: The voting for Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC), Leh is underway across the district in Ladakh. An official said that voting began at 08:00 am in the morning. He said strengthened security arrangements have been made and sufficient number of officials have been deployed at all the polling stations to ensure hassle—free voting. […]