JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir Police booked seven landlords here on Saturday for allegedly keeping tenants in their premises without police verification, police said. The drive to verify tenants has been intensified in view of the upcoming Republic Day celebrations, the police said. Police Station Bahu Fort has registered five FIRs under Section 223 of […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — The Jammu and Kashmir Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Saturday said it trapped and arrested a clerk of the Tehsil Office Central, Shalteng, Srinagar, for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 2,000. The ACB said it received a written complaint alleging that the complainant had been detained under preventive action under Section […]
WASHINGTON — The United States mounted a “large-scale strike” in Venezuela early Saturday and said President Nicolás Maduro had been captured and flown out of the country after months of stepped-up pressure by Washington, an extraordinary nighttime operation announced by President Donald Trump on social media hours after the attack. Venezuela’s Vice President Delcy Rodríguez […]
SRINAGAR — Police have registered two FIRs and initiated “security proceedings” against eleven people in Jammu and Kashmir’s Budgam district for not complying with orders prohibiting the use of Virtual Private Network (VPN) in the Union territory for security reasons, an official said on Saturday. A police spokesman said, to maintain law and order and […]
SRINAGAR — Drug addiction has witnessed a three-fold increase in the valley in the last three years, with the consumption of heroin rising among the younger population, Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Anshul Garg said here on Saturday. “Drug addiction has become a huge problem for all of us. There has been a three-fold increase in the […]
NEW DELHI — Billionaire Elon Musk on Saturday said that his brain-computer interface company Neuralink can possibly restore full body functionality. The breakthrough focuses on the motor cortex, restoring “full body functionality” for people with severed spinal cords. “I am confident at this point that restoring full body functionality is possible with Neuralink,” the Tesla […]
SRINAGAR — Peoples Democratic Party leader Iltija Mufti on Friday came out in support of a cricketer in soup for sporting the Palestine flag on his helmet during a tournament, saying there is nothing wrong in talking about the situation there. The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Friday ordered a preliminary enquiry after videos and […]
SRINAGAR — Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday said the Centre’s “unilateral” decisions in 2019 with regard to Jammu and Kashmir have not resolved the conflict in the region, which, he claimed, can erupt at anytime. He also said the “trust deficit” between the people of Kashmir and New Delhi “has widened, not shrunk”. The mirwaiz, […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday said there will be no general increase in electricity tariffs across the Union territory in the current financial year. The chief minister made this announcement amid apprehensions over an additional 20 per cent charge on electricity consumption during morning and evening hours in the […]
JAMMU — The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Friday ordered a preliminary enquiry after a cricketer from south Kashmir wore a helmet with the Palestinian flag during a private cricket tournament match in Jammu, a police spokesperson said. A video and photos of the cricketer, Furqan Ul Haq, were circulated online after he was seen […]