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Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – The United States unveiled a raft of new rights-abuse sanctions Friday on senior officials and entities in eight countries, including a Chinese firm specializing in facial recognition technology and a giant cartoon studio in North Korea. Timed for International Human Rights Day and supported in part by Britain and […]

Staff ReportSrinagar, Dec 10 A former director of Geology and Mining among 4 charged for purchasing low quality Rig machine worth crores of rupees.The Crime Branch Kashmir Friday filed chargesheet before a court here against former Director Geology and Mining Department J&K for inducting Rig Machine in the department despite field reports about its unsatisfactory

Staff ReportThe Mughal road that connects Kashmir with Jammu along the Shopian-Poonch highway opened for traffic here.This came after the traffic police cleared the light motor vehicles on the road from both sides. A traffic police advisory however said that the heavy vehicles ( upto 12 tyres) will only ply from Srinagar to Jammu.The road

Published by Reuters By Jacob Garcia TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico (Reuters) -Fifty-four mostly Central Americans were killed on Thursday when the truck they were in flipped over in southern Mexico, in one of the worst accidents involving migrants who risk their lives to reach the United States. The trailer broke open, spilling out people, when the

News Desk: Srinagar, Government of Jammu and Kashmir Saturday put under suspension three Public Works (R&B) Department engineers in Udhampur after names of the trio were mentioned in a First Information Report by CBI, Jammu. The Government Order number 361-PW(R&B) of 2021, a copy of which is in possession of GNS, reads that pending into

News Desk: Police on Saturday claimed to have arrested an Active militant of Lashkar-i-Toiba outfit in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. A senior police officer told GNS that a joint team of Police and army’s 02 RR, 62RR apprehended an active militant at Pushkar. He identified the arrested militant as Hamid Nath resident of Peth Zanigam

News Desk:Srinagar,The administration in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Saturday closed Bandipora-Gurez and Dawar-Tulail roads till further orders in wake of the fresh weather advisory. An order issued here by the Sub-Divisional Magistrate Gurez, reads, “In view of the weather advisory issued by the meteorological department regarding snowfall in the intervening night of 4 and

News Desk: Srinagar, An army man was found dead under mysterious circumstances inside Badami Bagh cantonment army camp here, officials said on Friday evening. They told GNS that one Anuj Singh son of Prem Chand resident of Bihar was found dead at a store room inside the army camp. The deceased belonged to Kilo force,

Staff Report A suspicious object has been found lying along Kupwara-Lolab road at Goos, officials said. They told GNS that a ‘shell type’ object was found by some passersby lying along the road near Public Park, following which the forces cordoned off the area. “A BDS team has been called in to the site”, they

Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – The United States praised South Africa Saturday for quickly identifying the new Covid strain called Omicron and sharing this information with the world — a barely veiled slap at China’s handling of the original outbreak of the novel coronavirus. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with South Africa’s international