SRINAGAR — Stoking a fresh controversy, BJP unit of J&K Wednesday said that the delimitation commission worked with “dedication and transparency” and that it was for the first time that Scheduled Tribe and Scheduled Caste categories have got their due rights. Addressing a press conference in Jammu party headquarters, BJP J&K President Ravinder Raina said […]
URI — A 20-year-old girl has lost her foot in a landmine blast along Line of Control in Hathlanga village in Uri on Wednesday afternoon, officials and reports said. Reports reaching GNS said that a girl identified as Masooma Bano, 20, daughter of Juma Chachi lost her left foot injury in a landmine blast. The […]
SRINAGAR — J&K Peoples Conference President Sajad Gani Lone has said that NC’s U-Turn to participate in the delimitaion commission meeting has legitimized the ‘grossly unfair delimitaion commission proposa’l. “Will somebody please enlighten them (PAGD). This report cannot be challenged in court. It is legally unchallengeable. Heavens sake. Stop lying through your teeth”, Sajad Lone […]
SRINAGAR — Anand Dutta one of the six convicted in the Kathua rape case of 2018 has been granted bail by Punjab & Haryana High Court, Bar and Bench reported. A Bench of Justices Tejinder Singh Dhindsa and Vinod S Bhardwaj suspended the remaining sentence of Dutta, and ordered that he be released on bail […]
SRINAGAR — A woman died under mysterious conditions at her in-laws house in Koot Kapren area of Dooru in South Kashmiris Anantnag district. Official sources said that a woman identified as Mahjabeena, wife of Rouf Ahmad Shah died under mysterious circumstances at her in laws house. Meanwhile, Station House Officer (SHO) concerned said that investigation […]
SRINAGAR — Barring Pahalgam and Qazigund, the minimum temperature recorded further rise across J&K and Ladakh amid cloud cover on Wednesday. A meteorological department official here told GNS that Srinagar, the summer capital of J&K recorded a low of minus 1.8°C against last night’s minus 2.8°C. It was after several days that the mercury rose […]
HYDERABAD — A 21-year-old college student was arrested for sexual assault three days after a schoolgirl died by suicide in Chennai, leaving a letter that claimed, “a girl is safe only in the mother’s womb or the grave.” The mother of the Class 11 student saw her hanging in their home on the outskirts of […]
SRINAGAR — All the eligible applicants who have applied for selection as Haj Trainers for Haj–2022 are hereby informed through this news item that their interview for the selection shall be held as per the schedule given underneath from 11.00AM. For Haj Trainers from Srinagar, Baramulla, Bandipora, Ganderbal and Budgam, the interview is scheduled for […]
SRINAGAR — The delimitation commission constituted by the Government of India to redraw J&K’s electoral map has proposed to increase one seat each in Kathua, Samba, Udhampur, Doda, Kishtwar and Rajouri districts in the Jammu region and Kupwara in the Kashmir Valley. Sources said that the draft proposal shared by the panel with J&K’s Lok […]
SRINAGAR — Police on Tuesday claimed to have arrested a militant associate of Lashkar-i-Toiba (LeT) militant outfit in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Police in a statement said, “Baramulla Police along with units of Army arrested a militant associate of Lashkar e Toiba (LeT) upon the receipt of a specific input during a special naka laid […]