The NIA on Monday arrested four ‘drug traffickers’ in Kashmir for their alleged involvement in smuggling heroin in huge quantities from Pakistan and supplying it in Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of the country, an official said.
The recovery of ”sticky bombs” from Samba sector in this region last month has set alarm bells ringing within the security establishment in Jammu and Kashmir as this indicates initiation of a new phase of militancy in the union territory, officials said on Monday.
The past year has been one of the most peaceful in Kashmir with all parameters of violence on a decline as people want it to be so, a top army officer said on Monday, rejecting suggestions that the COVID-19 pandemic has led to the “quiet” situation.
Cooking gas LPG price was on Monday hiked by Rs 25 per cylinder across all categories, including subsidised fuel and those availed by Ujjwala scheme beneficiaries – the fourth increase in rates in a month’s time.
Dozens of PDP leaders and workers staged a protest here on Monday against the BJP-led central government over the rising fuel prices and the proposed property tax on the people in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.
Amidst the tense border tension between India and China, a Chinese government-linked group of hackers targeted India’s critical power grid system through malware, a US company has said in its latest study.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday took his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at AIIMS and appealed to all those who are eligible to get inoculated.
Day temperatures are likely to be above normal in north, northeast, parts of east and west India, the India Meteorological Department said on Monday in its summer forecast for March to May. However, it has forecast a likelihood of below normal temperatures in south and adjoining central India.
Pakistan may allow cotton import from India through land route as prospects of gradual restoration of bilateral trade ties have brightened after the new ceasefire agreement along the Line of Control, according to a media report
The strategic Srinagar-Leh highway was reopened for traffic on Sunday after remaining closed for nearly two months due to heavy snowfall, officials said.
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