Observer News Service - July 1, 2018
NEW DELHI Eleven members of a family, including seven women, were found dead under mysterious circumstances at their residence in north Delhi’s Burari today, police said, sending shock waves through the area. Ten of those dead were found hanging from an iron-mesh ceiling used for ventilation, while the body of a 77-year-old woman was lying on […]
Observer News Service - July 1, 2018
SRINAGAR A teenaged boy drowned in a flood channel while trying to save a dog from drowning in Bemina area of Srinagar on Saturday. Reports said the youth, identified as Asif Ahmad of Nagrota Jammu, was washed away by flowing waters in the flood channel when he jumped into it to save a struggling dog […]
Observer News Service - July 1, 2018
WASHINGTON US President Donald Trump has reportedly tried to persuade his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron to pull his country out of the European Union in return for better bilateral trade terms. According to a report by the Washington Post, Trump made the suggestion during a private meeting at the White House in late April, […]
Observer News Service - July 1, 2018
WASHINGTON A local newspaper targetted in a shooting that left five dead managed to publish on Friday, covering its own tragedy and leaving its editorial page blank in honour of those slain. “We are speechless,” read a brief comment in the otherwise empty editorial page of The Capital, the print version of the digital […]
Observer News Service - July 1, 2018
SRINAGAR Many residents who live along the Jhelum banks here are experiencing flooding from the river and several people have also evacuated to safety. While water seeped into many homes, flood and rainwater were pooling in backyards of many others. Reports said dozens of residential houses got submerged at Kursu Rajbagh, Padshai Bagh, Shalteng, Sharifabad, […]
Observer News Service - July 1, 2018
TRIPOLI Around 100 people are thought to have drowned from a migrant boat off Libyas western coast, a coastguard official said on Friday. The coastguard picked up 14 survivors from the boat just east of the capital, Tripoli, the official said. Separately, the coastguard said it had intercepted 200 migrants from two other migrant boats […]
Observer News Service - July 1, 2018
SRINAGAR Police fired tear smoke shells and resorted to pellet guns to disperse protesters at Barzullah here on Saturday seeking the body of the local youth who according to them was killed in Kupwara yesterday. On Friday, the army claimed to have killed an unidentified militant in an encounter at Tunga Top forest area of Kachama. […]
Observer News Service - July 1, 2018
SRINAGAR Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir Chief Ghulam Mohammad Bhat on Saturday directed cadres to remain vigilant to the prevailing climatic situation and be prepared for any eventuality in order to help people. JeI Spokesman said that keeping in view of the critical climatic situation created due to incessant rains that lashed valley since couple […]
Observer News Service - July 1, 2018
SRINAGAR Governor N. N. Vohra reviewed the position in regard to all aspects of the redressal of grievances received by the J&K Grievance Cell through the web portal jkgrievance.in, e-mails, facebook, twitter handle, Whatsapp groups and by the Governors Secretariat through speed post, e-mail, fax, twitter handle etc. Governor observed that any member of […]
Observer News Service - July 1, 2018
ANANTNAG A complete shutdown was observed in Kokernag area of south Kashmirs Anantnag district to mark the first death anniversary of top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander Bashir Lashkari and his associate Azad Malik alias Dada of Arwani village in south Kashmir’s Anantnag District. Sources told Kashmir Observer that all shops and other business establishments are […]