LEH — Online booking, check-in and issuing of boarding passes have been introduced for a key air courier service that serves the people of Kargil once the strategic 434-km Srinagar-Leh national highway closes in winter months, officials said on Saturday. The subsidised AN-32 Kargil Courier Air Service, provided by the Indian Air Force, is operated […]
SRINAGAR — At least sixteen sheep were mauled to death even as over half a dozen left injured by a leopard in Ashmuqam Nowgam last night. Owner of the sheep Ghulam Mohuiddin Mir told GNS that a leopard barged inside his built shed at around 3 AM. “On hearing the noise I tried to save […]
JAMMU — The Power employees in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir have resolved to go on indefinite pen down and tools down strike from this midnight as the Lt Governor’s Administration has allegedly failed to resolve their pending issues. A spokesman of the Coordination Committee of the Power Employees, including all the unions […]
SRINAGAR — Reminding National Conference of its own statement that participation in the delimitation commission would tantamount to accepting BJP-led central government’s August 5 decisions on Kashmir, Peoples Conference chief Sajad Gani Lone on Saturday asked the party to explain how it was endorsement to abrogation of the Article 370 then and not now. In […]
SRINAGAR — The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has summoned PDP District Development Council member and Vice Chairman DDC Ganderbal, Bilal Ahmad, to New Delhi for questioning in connection with a case. Bilal Ahmad has been summoned to New Delhi on December 23 at NIA office where he will be questioned. Bilal is the vice chairman […]
RAJOURI — Six devotees on way to a shrine were injured after a vehicle they were traveling in met with an accident near Khandli bridge in Rajouri district. According to the news agency Kashmir News Observer, a vehicle (Tempo) plunged into a gorge at around 11 am, leaving six persons wounded. All the injured have […]
SRINAGAR — The J&K government has dismissed judicial officer, Rajesh Kumar Abrol, by invoking Article 311 of the Constitution of India. The order against Abrol comes nearly two months after he was convicting and sentenced to ten years jail and fined Rs 50000 for rape and cheating of a woman who had sought legal help […]
SRINAGAR — Cold conditions intensified in J&K and Ladakh as Srinagar experienced the coldest night of the season so far at minus 6.0°C on Saturday. A meteorological department official here told GNS that the mercury in the summer capital was down from previous night’s minus 3.8°C by minus 2.2°C and overall it was below minus […]
SRINAGAR — Former chief ministers Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah Friday lashed out at the Jammu and Kashmir administration for changes in the land use laws, claiming the new policy would adversely impact the people of the Union Territory. Mehbooba Mufti, the PDP president, alleged the new laws enabling conversion of agricultural land to nonagricultural […]
JAMMU — In a significant decision, the Administrative Council (AC) which met here under the chairmanship of the Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha, approved the regulations framed by the board of revenue for conversion of agricultural land for non-agricultural purposes. These regulations were necessitated after the legislative changes in the land revenue act post-reorganization of the […]