BENGALURU — Oil prices rose 2% on Tuesday to their highest in four weeks, as the U.S. reimposed its naval blockade of Iran while the two countries stepped up attacks in the Strait of Hormuz, heightening uncertainty about energy flows. Brent crude futures climbed $1.68, or 2%, to $84.98 per barrel by 0051 GMT, while […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Police has booked BJP’s Pulwama president Showkat Gayoor for allegedly making an extortion demand from a contractor through intimidation, officials said on Tuesday. The BJP, reacting to the development, suspended Gayoor with immediate effect from all party posts and responsibilities and initiated disciplinary proceedings against him. The FIR was registered […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir government on Friday said that the PGTI golf tournament, J&K Open, that concluded on Friday, will be an annual event from here on and the effort is to make the union territory the golfing capital of the country. Addressing the concluding ceremony of the Professional Golf Tour of India […]
SRINAGAR — The State Investigation Agency (SIA) of Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday conducted raids at multiple locations across the Union Territory in connection with the double murder of a Kashmiri Pandit writer and his son in 1990, officials said. The SIA searched nine locations, including in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district and Bagh-e-Bahu area […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir administration has notified consolidated ex-gratia relief norms for law and order disturbance victims, with civilian death compensation fixed at Rs 1 lakh, while the Union territory domicile defence or CAPF personnel killed would get Rs 25 lakh under the security-related expenditure. In an order by the Lieutenant Governor, the […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Police has booked BJP’s Pulwama president Showkat Gayoor for allegedly making an extortion demand from a contractor through intimidation, officials said on Tuesday. The BJP, reacting to the development, suspended Gayoor with immediate effect from all party posts and responsibilities and initiated disciplinary proceedings against him. The FIR was registered […]
JAMMU — The Jammu and Kashmir Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has registered a case against Mohd Arif Mir, the then Patwari of Patwar Halqa Trigam in Kishtwar, for allegedly demanding and accepting illegal gratification in connection with the issuance of a Fard. According to the ACB, FIR No. 02/2026 has been registered under Section 7 of […]
JAMMU — Seven persons, including four women, were rescued after they were left stranded in the Ujh river due to a sudden rise in the water level following incessant rains in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, police said. The rescue operation was launched after police post Nagri was informed that seven civilians […]
JAMMU — Two illegal pony operators were booked along Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine track in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district on Tuesday, police said. Raj Singh of Kakra and Abhishek Singh of Thakarakote villages were intercepted at a check point at Banganga enroute to the cave shrine atop Trikuta hills and found them operating without […]
JAMMU — A Government-appointed high-level panel examining demographic changes visited the Jagti township — the largest designated satellite settlement for displaced Kashmiri Pandits here — on Tuesday, to gather views and inputs from different sections of the population, officials said. The team also inspected a slum housing Rohingya immigrants in Narwal area of Jammu and […]
JAMMU (KIMS) — The Jammu and Kashmir Government has approved ₹5.78 crore for the comprehensive restoration and preservation of the historic ‘Lah Wali Bowli’ in Rajouri district. According to a post on X by the Office of the Chief Minister, the conservation project will focus on restoring the architectural features of the historic stepwell while […]
JAMMU — Security forces on Tuesday launched a massive joint search operation in the Mendhar sector of Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district after noticing suspicious movement near a tunnel under construction, officials said. A security guard, who was on duty at the construction site, noticed the suspicious movement and fired three to four rounds of […]
SRINAGAR — Police on Monday arrested a man for trying to frame the husband of his former girlfriend in a drug case by sending a narcotics consignment to his home in Ganderbal district here. A police spokesperson said during the investigation, it emerged that the consignment was arranged as part of a conspiracy to implicate […]
