SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir government on Thursday ordered transfer and posting of six JKAS officers, while ACR Anantnag has been assigned additional charge of Chief Executive Officer Municipal Council Anantnag. According to an order, Rakesh Kumar, JKAS, Deputy Secretary to the Government, Culture Department, is transferred and posted as Deputy District Election Officer, […]
BARAMULLA — The body of a man was recovered from river Jhelum near Khadiniyar area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Wednesday, a few days after he went missing from his home. An official told that the body was found by locals in river Jehlum near Khadiniyar area, who later informed the police. He identified […]
SRINAGAR — The MeT department on Thursday forecast partly cloudy sky with light rain at scattered places in Jammu and Kashmir during the next 24 hours. “Weather is likely to remain partly cloudy in J&K during the next 24 hours with possibility of light rain at scattered places”, said an official of the MeT department. […]
SRINAGAR — Over 80,000 devotees performed the ongoing Amarnath Yatra so far as another batch of 5,726 pilgrims left Jammu for the Valley on Thursday. Official sources said that 5,726 pilgrims left Bhagwati Nagar base camp in Jammu for the Valley on Thursday in two escorted convoys. “Of these, 2,109 are going to Baltal base […]
BENGALURU — The Income Tax department Wednesday conducted searches at the premises of Bengaluru-based pharmaceutical company Micro Labs Ltd, the manufacturers of Dolo-650 tablet that was widely used by COVID-19 patients during the last over two years, on charges of alleged tax evasion. Officials said the department is looking at financial documents, balance sheets and […]
SRINAGAR — If an opposition leader would have been photographed with arrested Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant Talib Hussain, he would have been slapped with FIRs and the BJP “trolls” would have been crying for his blood, the PDP said on Wednesday. In the party’s newsletter released here, the PDP — headed by Mehbooba Mufti — took […]
JAMMU — Amid infighting in the Jammu and Kashmir Congress, JKPCC president Gulam Ahmed Mir on Wednesday resigned from the post of state unit chief. In a letter to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, Mir has said that as a disciplined soldier, any decision taken by her regarding his successor shall be acceptable to him. “As […]
NEW DELHI — Union ministers Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and R C P Singh submitted their resignations to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, a day before the completion of their Rajya Sabha term, sources said. Earlier in the day, Modi had lauded both Naqvi and Singh during the cabinet meeting for their contribution to the […]
NEW DELHI — A Delhi Court has allowed Jamia Millia Islamia scholar and activist Safoora Zargar, an accused in the alleged larger conspiracy case behind the northeast Delhi riots, to visit her hometown in Kashmir’s Kishtwar for Eid-ul-Adha. Granting permission to leave the capital city where she is currently staying, Additional Sessions Judge Naveen Gupta […]
ANANTNAG — Semi-decomposed body of a newborn baby was found abandoned in a river at Bidhard Kokernag of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district this afternoon. Local sources told GNS that a baby was found by passersby inside Daksum river, upon which they informed police. A police team later on arrived at the site and took the […]