Govt to provide 2.75 marla plots to dislocated urban poor families
Div Com reviews rehabilitation plan
SRINAGAR, OCTOBER 20: Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Baseer Ahmad Khan, Friday convened a meeting to review the rehabilitation plan for dislocated urban poor families.
During the meeting, it was…
JRL calls for shutdown, civil shutdown on Sat; Kashmir varsity postpones exams
Srinagar, Oct 20 :The JRL have called for a shutdown and a civil curfew on Saturday against no letup in braid chopping incidents in Kashmir, where over 100 such cases were reported in the last about a month.
Meanwhile, Kashmir University…
Friday prayers not allowed for third week in Jamia Masjid in Srinagar
Srinagar, Oct 20 : No Friday prayers were allowed for the third successive week in the historic Jamia Masjid in downtown Srinagar, where curfew-like restrictions have been imposed to prevent any violence following a call for holding…
Committees for monitoring alleged Braid Chopping incidents in District Ganderbal
Ganderbal, 20 Oct: A meeting was convened by the Additional Deputy Commissioner, Syed Shahnawaz Bukhari (KAS) in his office chamber today in order to take note of the braid chopping incidents in District Ganderbal.
Additional Deputy…
Attack on workers at key Pakistan port for Chinese project; 26 hurt
QUETTA, Pakistan, Oct 20 : Unidentified men threw a grenade into a labourers' hostel in the Pakistani port of Gwadar wounding 26 of them, police said on Friday, in an attack likely to raise concern about security for the Pakistani section…
IOC sees possible setback due to GST despite 5-6% growth
CHENNAI: With GST resulting in a 10% decline in MRP prices for lubricants, Indian Oil Corp might see its lubricant division post $1.1 billion in revenues, almost the same that it earned in 2016-17. While demand continues to climb from auto…
Mirwaiz placed under house arrest, no relief for Geelani
Srinagar, Oct 20 : Chairman of the Hurriyat Conference (M) Mirwaiz Moulvi Omar Farooq was put under house arrest to prevent him from addressing Friday congregation at the shrine of Hazrat Sheikh Noorudin Noorani at Charar-e-Shareef in…
Eight killed, three others injured in transport building collapse in Tamil Nadu
Nagapattinam, Oct 20 : In a tragic incident on Friday, atleast eight crew members of the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (TNSTC) were killed and three others sustained grievous injuries after a portion of a decade-old TNSTC building…
FIR after mob tries to set ablaze mentally unsound youth in Sopore: Police
Srinagar: Police on Friday registered an FIR into the attempted lynching of a mentally deranged youth by a mob in Sopore area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district.
Superintendent of Police (SP) Sopore Harmeet Singh told media-persons…
‘Anemic’ iPhone 8 demand drags Apple shares lower
Apple Inc's shares fell nearly 3 percent on Thursday on signs of weak demand for the iPhone 8 that caused analysts and investors to question the company's staggered release strategy for its latest phones.
Wireless carriers in the United…