SRINAGAR — Police on Saturday said that it has arrested a lotus stem fritters/tea stall vendor after a video went viral showing him making unhealthy food items (Nadur Munji) by kneading the flour dough with feet in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. In a handout, the police said that, Budgam Police swung into action by arresting […]
SRINAGAR — State Investigation Agency of Jammu and Kashmir Police on Saturday filed Chargesheet against ex-minister Jatinder Singh (Babu Singh) and other two persons in connection with militancy funding case at a Jammu court. In a handout, the SIA said that today the State Investigation Agency Jammu has filed Chargesheet against Jatinder Singh @ Babu […]
PULWAMA — Suspected militants on Saturday evening shot at and injured two non-local labourers at Kharbhatpora, Ratnipora village in Pulwama district. The duo were shifted to nearby hospital for treatment where there condition is said to be stable. The duo has been identified as Shamshad Ahmad son of Islam Sheikh and Faizan Qadri son of […]
JAISALMER — Two youths from Jammu and Kashmir were apprehended from near the India-Pakistan international border in Rajasthan’s Jaisalmer district, police said on Saturday. The two were collecting donations in the prohibited area without permission, they said. After questioning, the youths were handed over to the Joint Investigation Committee. They be interrogated by security and […]
JAMMU — In a major political development mayor and deputy mayor of Jammu Municipal Corporation on Saturday resigned from their posts. Sources told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that JMC mayor Chander Mohan Gupta and deputy mayor Advocate Purnima Sharma resigned today after facing opposition from own councillors. They said that there was infighting […]
SRINAGAR — Amid claims by students of BA LLB 10th semester that examination paper of ‘Child Law and Juvenile Justice” was out of syllabus, Kashmir University on Saturday said genuineness of the claims would be ascertained by an expert committee in a time-bound manner. “Some examinees of BA LLB 10th semester have claimed that their […]
SRINAGAR — A-32-year-old man died on Saturday when a tree he was cutting fell on him in forest area in central Kashmir’s Budgam district. An official told news agency Kashmir Dot Com that one person identified as Muhammad Rafiq Khokhar, son of Habibullah Khokhar, a resident of Kokerbagh Khag, was cutting a tree in the […]
JAMMU — Two mortar shells were found in the forward villages along the International Border (IB) in Jammu and Samba districts of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Saturday. A live mortar shell was noticed by villagers at Pragwal in Akhnoor sector on the outskirts of Jammu this morning, they said, adding the bomb disposal […]
RAMALLAH — Dozens of Palestinian protesters were injured during clashes with Israeli soldiers in several West Bank cities and villages. Among the injured were three shot by live ammunition and nine by rubber bullets, while the others inhaled teargas fired by Israeli soldiers, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a statement on Friday. In […]
NEW DELHI — The CBI on Saturday carried out searches at 59 locations across 21 states and a Union Territory in an internationally coordinated law-enforcement crackdown on online circulation of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), with officials here saying more than 50 suspects in the country are under the scanner. The raids, part of Operation […]