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 (KIMS) — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday extended warm greetings to the people of Jammu and Kashmir and the nation on the 80th Independence Day. According to a post on X by the Office of the Chief Minister, Abdullah reaffirmed his commitment to democracy, unity, peace and progress and to […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Police on Friday attached an immovable property worth approximately ₹10 lakh in the Khansahib area of Budgam district in connection with a drug trafficking case, officials said. The action was taken in connection with FIR No. 92/2026 registered under Sections 8 and 20 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Friday expressed concern over the functioning of Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University (BGSBU), alleging that the institution was being “systematically destroyed.” In a post on X, Mufti said the university, which she described as the only major university serving the Pir Panjal region, had faced a decade […]
SRINAGAR — The Special Judge Anti-Corruption, Srinagar, has convicted a former Executive Engineer and an orderly in a corruption trap case involving the demand and acceptance of illegal gratification during the processing of a contractor’s bill. The convicts have been identified as Ghulam Nabi Dar, the then Executive Engineer, Rural Engineering Works (REW), Ganderbal, and […]
JAMMU — One Village Defence Guard (VDG) member was killed and another critically injured after a fellow VDG member allegedly opened fire on them following a scuffle in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur on Friday, officials said. The incident took place in remote Pancheri area when the VDG members were heading for Damnot police post, the […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday claimed that he was placed under house arrest again on the eve of the Islamic month of Rabi-ul-Awwal and condemned the repeated and arbitrary restrictions imposed on Fridays. In a post on X, Mirwaiz questioned the government’s narrative of “normalcy”, saying that repeated restrictions preventing him from […]
JAMMU — The Railway Police has arrested an absconding terrorist accused in a 1991 bomb blast case at Jammu railway station after a manhunt spanning nearly 35 years, officials said. The accused was identified as Altaf Hussain Sheikh, son of Nazir Ahmed Sheikh and a resident of Marhama-Bijbehara in Anantnag district, they said. He had […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Director General of Police (DGP) J&K Shri Nalin Prabhat, accompanied by IGP Kashmir Shri V.K. Birdi, SSP Srinagar Dr G.V. Sundeep Chakravarthy and other jurisdictional officers, conducted a late-night ground review of security arrangements across Srinagar ahead of Independence Day. The DGP personally inspected naka points, security deployments and arrangements at Bakshi […]
SRINAGAR — Two teenage boys were killed and two others injured on Thursday after they were struck by lightning in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. The lightning struck Gawran Nard in Anantnag district. Officials said the deceased have been identified as Faizan Ahmad (18) and Bilal Ahmad Battana (16). Sajad Ahmad Battana […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — The Jammu and Kashmir government has approved the Chief Minister’s Digital Internship Programme 2026 (Batch-I), a six-month paid initiative aimed at providing students with hands-on experience in government technology projects. The programme will be executed by the J&K e-Governance Agency and will be open to eligible students from BE/B.Tech, M.Tech, MCA and […]
