Greater Kashmir

Jammu, Sep 21: Army on Monday recovered an old rusted mortar shell at a village in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district and defused it, officials said. The shell was found in Bagyala Dhara village of Haveli tehsil. The Army's Bomb Disposal Squad was called in and it was safely defused at the spot, they said. No loss of life or property was reported, officials added.

An 18-month-old in Karachi died after an alleged sexual assault. A three-year-old girl in the same city was raped and murdered. In Haripur, a five-year-old girl was raped and killed. These are not statistics. They are children. Against this horrifying backdrop, a video of Pakistani preacher Mufti Tariq Masood has resurfaced in which, while discussing marriage, he jokes about a four-year-old girl as a possible bride. Masood has since defended the remark as a joke taken out of context. But there a

Srinagar, Sep 15: A television was once a device that received signals and displayed programmes. Today, a smart TV can connect to the internet, communicate with phones and other devices, recognise what is playing on screen, respond to voice commands and collect data about viewing behaviour. That transformation has created a new privacy question: how much should a television be allowed to know about the household it sits in? The recent controversy involving LG TVs has brought that question into f

Jammu, Sep 15: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), J&K has registered an FIR against former Assistant Commissioner (Revenue), Jammu and four private beneficiaries over allegedly granting illegal permission for the transfer of Gair Mumkin Khad land in Jammu. In a statement, the spokesperson said that ACB J&K has registered FIR No. 12/2026 at Police Station ACB Central, Jammu, against Nisar Ahmad Shad, the then Assistant Commissioner (Revenue), Jammu, and four private beneficiaries. He said the FIR

Srinagar, Sep 15: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday dismissed concerns over the stability of his government, saying he had complete faith in his MLAs and had no fear that any of them would switch sides. Responding to questions about remarks by Leader of the Opposition Sunil Sharma over the functioning of the Assembly and the upcoming session, Abdullah defended the governments decision to convene a seven-day session, saying the BJP was in no position to accuse his governme

Jammu, Sep 15: Leader of Opposition Sunil Sharma on Tuesday criticised the Jammu and Kashmir government over the duration of the upcoming Assembly session, demanding that it be extended to around 30 days to allow legislators adequate time to raise public issues. Addressing a press conference at the Bharatiya Janata Party headquarters, Sharma said the Assembly was the primary platform through which people's grievances and expectations could be placed before the government. Peoples expectations ar

Srinagar, Sep 15: The United States has, for the first time, acknowledged deploying space weapons in Earths orbit, with US Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink saying the weapon was necessary to safeguard US forces against hostile enemy action, according to a report by the BBC. However, speaking at the Air, Space and Cyber Conference on Monday, Meink said the US was ready for evolving threats, but did not disclose the weapon's capabilities or when they were put into orbit. As per the report, Ch

Srinagar, Sep 13: Asserting that her recent comments on distribution of food in the premises of Khankahs have been wrongly portrayed, Chairperson of J&K Waqf Board Dr Syed Darakhshan Andrabi has said that objective of her statement was to create awareness that traditional food such as Tehri be distributed in a more organised manner. People can bring Tehri to Khankahs as it is an integral part of our culture. My comment has been used out of context. All I wanted to say was that we have constructe

Srinagar, Sep 13: Ladakh Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena today flagged off the 42-km Full Marathon and 21-km Half Marathon at the 13th Ladakh Marathon in Leh, which saw the participation of more than 8,000 people. Flagged off the '42 km Full Marathon' and '21 km Half Marathon' at the 13th Ladakh Marathon in Leh today, the LG said. It is inspiring to see runners from across India and the world come together in Ladakh, embracing the spirit of endurance, determination and adventure, he added

Jakarta, Sep 13: Indonesian rescuers launched a search operation Sunday after a passenger ship carrying 240 people lost contact in the Java Sea while travelling from East Java to South Kalimantan on Borneo island, officials said. The Search and Rescue Office in Banjarmasin, the capital city of South Kalimantan province, said they received a report the Virgo Transport 8 had experienced a communication failure while en route to the city from Surabaya, Indonesia's second largest city in East Java p

New Delhi, Sep 12:The Global South must become a ule shaper and the existing pyramid of privilege structure in global governance must give way to a platform of partnership, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday while opening the two-day annual BRICS summit as trade friction and geopolitical instability trigger growing economic headwinds. The prime minister also unveiled a 10-point roadmap for global governance reform under the BRICS framework while advocating for a 'Seafarers' Emergency

Jammu, Sep 12: Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police (DGP) Nalin Prabhat on Saturday chaired a high-level meeting here to review the prevailing security situation and assess the action being taken against narco-terror networks and their support modules, officials said. Inspector General of Police, Jammu Range, Tejinder Singh, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Jammu-Samba-Kathua range, Shridhar Patil and other senior police and intelligence officers attended the meeting, the officials sa

New Delhi, Sep 12: In a major diplomatic outcome for India, BRICS condemned the April 2025 terror attack in Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir in its New Delhi Declaration adopted on Saturday and called for zero tolerance towards state-sponsored cross-border terrorism. The comprehensive declaration, titled 'Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability', marked a unified stance by the bloc against global terror, illegal financial flows, cyber fraud, and emerging cross-border sca

Leh, Sep 12: Senior Ladakh leader and former MP Thupstan Chhewang on Saturday urged the region's political and social leadership to build on the progress made in recent talks with the Centre instead of returning to the streets, saying the latest engagement with the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) produced several positive outcomes. Chhewang, who resigned as chairman of the Leh Apex Body (LAB) in July last year after leading the agitation for demands including statehood and extension of the

New Delhi, Sep 12: In a significant diplomatic breakthrough for India, the BRICS grouping on Saturday adopted a joint declaration with consensus, overcoming sharp divisions between Iran and the UAE over the West Asia conflict following a series of back-channel negotiations. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the adoption of the declaration at the end of the opening day's deliberations at the two-day India-hosted summit. The negotiations on the text of the declaration went down to the wire as

Leh, Sep 12: The Ladakh State Board for Wildlife has rejected a sub-committee report on settling boundaries within protected areas, citing discrepancies, as LG Vinai Kumar Saxena directed authorities to resolve the rights and claims of local communities in these areas within two months, an official said on Saturday. Chairing the 16th meeting of the newly constituted Ladakh State Board for Wildlife, the LG said settling the rights and claims of local communities in the Hemis National Park, High A