SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday distributed appointment orders on compassionate grounds to 54 beneficiaries here. The chief minister handed over the appointment and regularisation orders to beneficiaries from various districts of Kashmir, marking another step towards clearing the backlog of cases under SRO-43 and RAS-2022, an official spokesperson said. […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday said the Election Commission of India should convene a meeting of political parties to allay their apprehension about the Special Intensive Revision (SIR). “There are apprehensions, and it will be better that the Election Commission call people like us to make us understand what […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday said people were more concerned about the delivery of governance than changing the nomenclature of institutions in the country. “Name change is fine, but there should be a change in the functioning as well. People are not bothered about the names, they look at […]
JAMMU — The Jammu and Kashmir Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested two men on Thursday for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe from a person seeking correction of his name in the revenue records in Udhampur district, officials said. The ACB registered a case under the Prevention of Corruption Act against Patwari Ganderab Singh of Thalora, […]
JAMMU — Police on Thursday claimed to have busted a cross-border narcotics racket by arresting six people and recovering nearly five kilograms of heroin along with three pistols here, officials said. The value of the seized drug is more than Rs 30 crore in international market, they said. “A major narcotics racket has been busted […]
JAMMU — Panun Kashmir, an organisation batting for a Union territory in the Kashmir Valley for displaced Kashmiri Pandits, on Thursday raised the issue of migrant camps in Jammu facing a health catastrophe and deteriorating infrastructure, making life difficult for those living in the camps. Jammu has five Kashmiri migrant camps housing about 40,000 people. […]
JAMMU — The Rashtriya Bajrang Dal on Thursday took out a march here to protest against the admission of 42 Muslim students, mostly from Kashmir, in the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Institute of Medical Excellence and demanded seat reservation at the institute for Hindus. The political row erupted after the medical college completed admissions through […]
ANANTNAG (KIMS) — Anantnag Police on Thursday registered an FIR against a hotel in Pahalgam for allegedly accommodating two Thai nationals without submitting the mandatory Form C. During routine inspections of hotels and guest accommodations in the Rafting Point area, a team from Police Station Pahalgam conducted checks to verify compliance with legal and security […]
PULWAMA (KIMS) — Pulwama Police on Thursday said it continues to intensify its crackdown against illegal mining across the district. Police said during the intervening night of December 3 and 4, a team from Police Station Litter, while on routine patrolling, seized one JCB, one dumper and one tractor involved in unauthorized soil extraction at […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Crime Branch Jammu & Kashmir has filed a chargesheet in FIR No. 79/2022 under Sections 420, 467, 468, 471 and 120-B of the RPC, read with Section 5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, before the Court of the Special Judge, Anti-Corruption, Srinagar. The chargesheet […]