Jhelum

Twins Tanvir and Muzamil Ahmad were being taken by their mother to school as usual this morning. But they never made it to the school. The boat carrying them overturned in the Jhelum river in Srinagar on Tuesday.

Six children, including four children, have died and 10 people are missing after a boat capsized in the Jhelum river in Srinagar on Tuesday, officials said.

The water level in the Jhelum River has hit the lowest due to a prolonged dry spell in Kashmir, officials said here on Sunday.

The Jhelum Stadium in Janbazpora locality of the north Kashmir district was renamed 'General Bipin Rawat Stadium' on the second death anniversary of the country's first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS).

The persisting dry weather across the valley has brought down the water level in Jhelum to a 70-year low in the month of September, said officials.

A Hindu girl who was kidnapped in the Jhelum district of Pakistan's Punjab province was rescued on Monday, a week after she was abducted while returning from work.

Jammu and Kashmir's water transport authority has brought the first imported luxury boat for cruise on the Jhelum river with an aim to revive water transport in Kashmir.

A BSF constable and a policeman jumped in river at Baramulla and saved a child who had got trapped due to a sudden increase in the water level on Monday, BSF said on Tuesday.

The chairman of the Jhelum Co-operative House Building Society (JCHBS) has been arrested in an alleged Rs 223-crore land scam involving the Jammu and Kashmir State Co-operative Bank in Srinagar, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) saidon Monday.

Residents of a colony in Srinagar have agreed to the demolition of a 40-year-old mosque to allow a long-awaited bridge over the Jhelum river to be completed, officials said on Sunday. They said the project has been pending since 2002 due to some bottlenecks, including the presence of the mosque and some residential and commercial structures.

Due to incessant rains in the Kashmir Valley, the waters of the Jhelum river has breached the flood alarm level of 18 feet on Thursday, authorities said.

Inspired by the rich culture of Kashmir Valley, a couple from Poland, hosted their wedding reception at banks of river Jhelum in Srinagar. The ceremony, that took place on Saturday, was held according to Kashmiri customs.

With intermittent rain continuing across Kashmir Valley, authorities today issued a flood alert in central Kashmir for low lying areas, including capital Srinagar, and asked people to stay alert and prepared for evacuation. Schools across the valley stayed closed today due to the weather conditions.

In view of the critical flood situation in Jammu and Kashmir, as a precautionary measure, all schools in the Kashmir division will remain closed today, Srinagar Deputy Commissioner told news agency ANI. Amarnath Yatra has also been suspended from the Pahalgam route due to multiple landslides triggered by heavy rains and bad weather. This comes a d...

Amarnath Yatra has been suspended due to inclement weather and bad condition of the roads in Baltal and Pahalgam routes. Flood alert has also been sounded in Jammu and Kashmir.

Twins Tanvir and Muzamil Ahmad were being taken by their mother to school as usual this morning. But they never made it to the school. The boat carrying them overturned in the Jhelum river in Srinagar on Tuesday.

Six children, including four children, have died and 10 people are missing after a boat capsized in the Jhelum river in Srinagar on Tuesday, officials said.

The water level in the Jhelum River has hit the lowest due to a prolonged dry spell in Kashmir, officials said here on Sunday.

The Jhelum Stadium in Janbazpora locality of the north Kashmir district was renamed 'General Bipin Rawat Stadium' on the second death anniversary of the country's first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS).

The persisting dry weather across the valley has brought down the water level in Jhelum to a 70-year low in the month of September, said officials.

A Hindu girl who was kidnapped in the Jhelum district of Pakistan's Punjab province was rescued on Monday, a week after she was abducted while returning from work.

Jammu and Kashmir's water transport authority has brought the first imported luxury boat for cruise on the Jhelum river with an aim to revive water transport in Kashmir.

A BSF constable and a policeman jumped in river at Baramulla and saved a child who had got trapped due to a sudden increase in the water level on Monday, BSF said on Tuesday.

The chairman of the Jhelum Co-operative House Building Society (JCHBS) has been arrested in an alleged Rs 223-crore land scam involving the Jammu and Kashmir State Co-operative Bank in Srinagar, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) saidon Monday.

Residents of a colony in Srinagar have agreed to the demolition of a 40-year-old mosque to allow a long-awaited bridge over the Jhelum river to be completed, officials said on Sunday. They said the project has been pending since 2002 due to some bottlenecks, including the presence of the mosque and some residential and commercial structures.

Due to incessant rains in the Kashmir Valley, the waters of the Jhelum river has breached the flood alarm level of 18 feet on Thursday, authorities said.

Inspired by the rich culture of Kashmir Valley, a couple from Poland, hosted their wedding reception at banks of river Jhelum in Srinagar. The ceremony, that took place on Saturday, was held according to Kashmiri customs.

With intermittent rain continuing across Kashmir Valley, authorities today issued a flood alert in central Kashmir for low lying areas, including capital Srinagar, and asked people to stay alert and prepared for evacuation. Schools across the valley stayed closed today due to the weather conditions.

In view of the critical flood situation in Jammu and Kashmir, as a precautionary measure, all schools in the Kashmir division will remain closed today, Srinagar Deputy Commissioner told news agency ANI. Amarnath Yatra has also been suspended from the Pahalgam route due to multiple landslides triggered by heavy rains and bad weather. This comes a d...

Amarnath Yatra has been suspended due to inclement weather and bad condition of the roads in Baltal and Pahalgam routes. Flood alert has also been sounded in Jammu and Kashmir.