Advisor Baseer Khan meets several deputations, individuals at Srinagar SRINAGAR, SEPTEMBER 22: Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, Baseer Ahmad Khan today met scores of public delegations and individuals who apprised him about their problems and demands, here at Grievance Cell Srinagar. Over 200 people comprising several delegations and individuals apprised the Advisor about their grievances and […]
Battle of Batsmen: It’s Shubman, Russell vs Rohit, Hardik as KKR take on MI
Grace and strength will be on one side while poise and killer instinct on the other when a revamped Kolkata Knight Riders take on Mumbai Indians, who have once again faltered in the beginning of the IPL, on Wednesday. Since 2013, Mumbai Indians have never won an opening game and the script didn’t change against […]
Kashmir Press Club slams summoning, slapping of scribe by cop over report
The Kashmir Press Club and the Kashmir Editors guild have denounced the summoning of a journalist to a police station and slapping him for alleged misreporting. While condemning the incident, the Kashmir Press Club, in a statement, said the behaviour of the police towards a young journalist Aquib Javeed is unacceptable. Javeed is also an […]
Apni Party urges Lt. Governor to intervene for a hassle-free movement of fruits, vegetable trucks in J&K
Apni Party spokesman and former legislator Javid Hassan Baig on Tuesday solicited the intervention of Lt. Governor Manoj Sinha to facilitate a hassle free movement of fruit and vegetable laden trucks on Srinagar-Jammu National Highway so as to prevent further losses to the horticulture sector in Kashmir. In a statement issuedto KNS reads, Baig said […]
Protests in Sopore area over non-availability of drinking water
Srinagar: Residents of Sadipora area of Sopore in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Tuesday staged massive protests against water scarcity in the area. Reports reaching to Kashmir News Service said the scores of men women and children hit the road and staged a massive protest and blocked the Dangerpora- Sopore road for hours. The protesting […]
Financial package is to hoodwink biz community: CCIK
The Associated Chamber of Commerce and Industries-Kashmir (CCIK) said that the government is just “hoodwinking” people by announcing the package. CCIK, in a statement, said the “package for business revival and growth” announced by the Lt.Governor should be an “eye opener” to the business community who are being conveniently “befooled” by the government. It said […]
Delhi Riots: Khalid Saifi, Tahir Hussain Received Rs 1.61 Cr For Conspiracy, Alleges Chargesheet
Former Congress Councillor Ishrat Jahan, activist Khalid Saifi, suspended AAP Councillor Tahir Hussain, Jamia Millia Islamia Alumni Association President Shifa Ur Rehman and Jamia student Meeran Haider allegedly received Rs 1.61 crore for managing protest sites against the Citizenship Amendment Act in Delhi and executing the conspiracy hatched for the riots in north east Delhi […]
Taj Mahal Opens After 6 Months, Footfall Capped At 5000 Visitors A Day
Agra’s Taj Mahal was opened to tourists on Monday after 188 days of its COVID-19-led closure. The Taj Mahal and Agra Fort were closed to tourists from March 17 amid the COVID-19 outbreak in the country. With a Delhi resident entering the 17th-century ivory-white marble monument on the southern bank of the Yamuna from its […]
Hundreds of whales stranded in southern Australia
SYDNEY: At least twenty-five whales have died and scientists are trying to rescue 250 more that are stranded in a remote bay on the Australian island of Tasmania, officials said on Monday. Tasmania’s environment department said the whales had become stuck on a sandbar in Macquarie Harbour, on the island’s rugged and sparsely populated west […]
COVID-19: India’s tally crosses 5.5 million cases
India’s COVID-19 infection tally crossed 55 lakh on Tuesday, while a record 1,01,468 patients recovered in a day, taking their number to 44,97,867 and pushing the recovery rate to 80.86 per cent, the Union health ministry data showed, reported a local news agency, Kashmir News Observer (KNO). The coronavirus caseload in the country surged to […]