Srinagar: The five security personnel, who went missing after an avalanche struck near the LoC in Kashmir's Kupwara district, remained untraced on Wednesday even as search operations continued for the second day. The joint operation in search of four Army personnel and a BSF jawan at Furkian top resumed on Wednesday morning but success eluded the rescue teams so far, defence sources said. An avalanche struck the troops near a...
01:24 PM, Jan 25, 2012
Srinagar: A BSF officer was killed while six other security personnel went missing after being hit by an avalanche near the Line of Control (LoC) in Kupwara district on Tuesday. Sub-Inspector Narendra Kumar died while five Army personnel and a BSF constable were missing after the avalanche struck this morning, a BSF spokesman said, adding Kumar's body has been recovered. "A snow avalanche struck Furkian top in Kupwara at 7:20...
01:03 PM, Jan 24, 2012
New Delhi: Seven security personnel were on Tuesday swept away by an avalanche near the Line of Control (LoC) in Kupwara, Kashmir, which include five Army and two BSF men. Men from HAWS (High Altitude Warfare School), Gulmarg have been rushed to the location. However, low visibility has made it difficult for the Army to conduct the rescue operation. Snow avalanche hit a village near Kupwara at 7:30 am on...
09:55 AM, Jan 24, 2012
Srinagar: Heavy snowfall lashed the Kashmir Valley Sunday and the Srinagar-Jammu highway was closed for traffic to prevent accidents. Jammu and Kashmir summer capital Srinagar received six inches of snow till 8 AM and the snowfall continued unabated. Gulmarg had received a foot of fresh snowfall, Pahalgam three inches, Ganderbal town six inches, Badgam five inches, Bandipora five inches, Baramulla four inches, Shopian three inches and Anantnag town one inch...
10:13 AM, Jan 15, 2012
The minimum temperature in Srinagar was 0.7 degrees. The Met department says the conditions to prevail on Saturday. ...
09:43 AM, Jan 07, 2012
New Delhi: Friday proved to be the coldest day of the year in many parts of North India. In Delhi, the maximum temperature plummeted to the season's lowest of 16.9 degrees Celsius. The minimum temperature, however, was 12.4 degrees. The city also experienced rain and a hailstorm. The Met department has predicted more showers on Saturday. Jaipur, Lucknow and Patna were a couple of degrees warmer at 14 degrees. The...
07:57 AM, Jan 07, 2012
Christmas on the slopes of Gulmarg which is covered with snow means a lot to tourists who have come to celebrate the festival in a unique way. ...
09:46 AM, Dec 25, 2011
Srinagar: A 'floating' post office on the Dal Lake in Srinagar will soon be a new tourist attraction as the Postal Department of Jammu and Kashmir plans to open it along with several other post offices across the state. Apart from a 'floating' post office on the Dal Lake, a 'tourist post office' will come up in the famous ski resort of Gulmarg in north Kashmir. The Department is also...
08:58 PM, May 23, 2011
Srinagar: Chilly winds and freezing temperatures continued in the Kashmir Valley and the Ladakh region on Sunday. Leh was a chilling minus 12.6 degrees Celsius while Srinagar saw thick fog. "The minimum temperature in Srinagar was minus 3.1 degrees Celsius today (Sunday)," an official of the weather office told IANS. "It was minus 12.6 in Leh and minus 10.2 in Kargil town of Ladakh region," he said. "The temperature dipped...
10:47 AM, Dec 26, 2010
CNN-IBN team travels to Gulmarg to give us the first hand difficulties. ...
09:21 PM, Feb 09, 2010
J-K is experiencing warmer nights even after the snow lashing. ...
01:59 PM, Feb 06, 2009
Tourists visiting from Oct to Dec in 2008 was down 32 per cent. ...
07:12 PM, Jan 17, 2009
Melbourne: Former Australian captain Ian Chappell feels administrators have not done enough to frighten off the crooks in cricket and the corruption in the sport can end only if life bans are imposed on guilty players. Fixing is fixing in any form, get involved in the dirty business and your career in the game of cricket is over for life, said Chappell. There's no doubt the jail sentences for the ...
08:51 PM, Mar 16, 2008
Nottingham: Former England captain Nasser Hussain said Ian Bell was fortunate to have been reprieved by India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni after a bizarre run out in the ongoing second Test. Bell, who's batted superbly, then was run out on 137 off the last ball before tea on Sunday's third day here at Trent Bridge. Having completed three runs with Eoin Morgan after Praveen Kumar's misfield, he sprinted off the...
08:10 AM, Feb 17, 2008
Dubai: Top rankings continued to elude Indian bowlers with the only change in the one-day international positions coming in the form of Pakistan's off-spinner Saeed Ajmal, who made a 16-point leap to rise to third spot. In the absence of any international exposure after the culmination of the World Cup on April 2, Indian players remained static in the latest ICC player rankings for ODI's. While Virat Kohli continues to ...
05:53 PM, Jan 22, 2008
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