Developing stories

 Crescent Kashmir

Trump is desperate, so now’s the time for India to cut a trade deal with US

Trump is desperate, so now’s the time for India to cut a trade deal with US

America’s elections provide a narrow window of opportunity for its trading partners. Across the world, negotiators will have seen a man from Maine given a prime spot at the Republican National Convention: Lobsterman Jason Joyce spoke about how President Donald Trump had “brokered a deal to end European Union tariffs of 8% on Maine live lobsters and […]

 Crescent Kashmir

JK reports 786 new positive cases, 28510 recovered so far

JK reports 786 new positive cases, 28510 recovered so far

JAMMU, AUGUST 30: The Government on Sunday informed that 786 new positive cases of novel Corona virus (COVID-19), 354 from Jammu division and 432 from Kashmir division, have been reported today thus taking the total number of positive cases in Jammu and Kashmir to 37163. Also 09 COVID-19 deaths have been reported; 03 from Jammu […]

 Crescent Kashmir

COVID-19: Govt evacuates 3,72,039 stranded JK residents; 2,59,028 via Lakhanpur, 1,13,011 through special trains

COVID-19: Govt evacuates 3,72,039 stranded JK residents; 2,59,028 via Lakhanpur, 1,13,011 through special trains

JAMMU, AUGUST 30: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has evacuated about 3,72,039 JK residents, stranded in other parts of the country due to COVID lockdown, via Lakhanpur  and through special trains and buses till date amid strict observance of all necessary guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures. As per the official data received in this regard, […]

 Crescent Kashmir

JKSSB’s Portal records 7,29,500 registrations; 1,66,100 candidates submit online application for post of Accounts Assistant

JKSSB’s Portal records 7,29,500 registrations;  1,66,100 candidates submit online application for post of Accounts Assistant

JAMMU, AUGUST 30: Till today morning 7,29,500 Registrations have been done by the candidates on JKSSB’s Online Portal, since the commencement of online application submission from 10th July, 2020 and 1,66,100 applications have been submitted online for the post of Accounts Assistant. It has been noted that about 1,01,000 unique visitors visited the online application […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Lt Governor releases Coffee Table Books of JKEDI and Labour & Employment Department

Lt Governor releases Coffee Table Books of JKEDI and Labour & Employment Department

Directs for making all Welfare Schemes run by J&K Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board, available online before 30th September, 2020 Guidelines of various welfare schemes to be advertised in each of the 3000 Community Service Centers across J&K for maximum awareness of beneficiaries Directs for expediting modalities for effecting pending Amendments to the […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Elderly woman crushed to death by police vehicle in Kulgam

Elderly woman crushed to death by police vehicle in Kulgam

Kulgam, Aug 30 : A 55-year-old woman was crushed to death by a police vehicle in Qaimoh area of Khudwani in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Sunday afternoon. An official told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the woman namely was hit by the speeding police Casper vehicle near Qaimoh market Kulgam. “She was shifted […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Police lost well-trained anti-militancy cop in Srinagar gunfight: DGP

Police lost well-trained anti-militancy cop in Srinagar gunfight: DGP

Director-General of Police, Jammu and Kashmir, Dilbagh Singh Sunday said that in an overnight gunfight at Panthachowk, Srinagar, the police “lost its brave, well-trained and experience counter-insurgency cop who had taken part in so many successful anti-militancy operations”. The DGP also said that the three-bike borne militants had first fired at a joint naka party […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Army JCO killed as India-Pakistan exchange gunfire along LoC in Rajouri

Army JCO killed as India-Pakistan exchange gunfire along LoC in Rajouri

A Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) of army was killed in the fresh exchange of firing between Indian and Pakistani armies along the Line of Control in Nowshehra area of Rajouri district, reported a local news agency, Kashmir News Observer (KNO). Unnamed defence officials claimed that Pakistan resorted to ceasefire violation early morning today and used […]

 Crescent Kashmir

3 militants, ASI killed in ongoing encounter at Pantha Chowk Srinagar

3 militants, ASI killed in ongoing encounter at Pantha Chowk Srinagar

Three militants and an ASI of Jammu and Kashmir Police were killed in an ongoing clashes between the militants and the government forces in Panthers Chowk area in the outskirts of Srinagar. Confirming the killing of three militants in clashes with the government forces the Kashmir Zone Police on it’s twitter handle wrote “#Srinagar encounter […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Part of joint ‘political struggle’, Farooq treads cautiously

Part of joint ‘political struggle’, Farooq treads cautiously

Srinagar: National Conference (NC) president and sitting MP from Srinagar Dr Farooq Abdullah has surprised many of his friends in Delhi by deciding to launch a joint struggle with five other political parties, including PDP, for the restoration of Article 370 and has delinked politics from the elections. Though his son Omar Abdullah is not in […]