JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Sunday announced a fresh phase of protests beginning July 20 against the Centre in Delhi over “unexplained delay” in restoring of statehood to the Union Territory. Addressing a public rally here, Abdullah said his party waited for two years after the Assembly election in the […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Sunday defended the National Conference’s decision to invite moderate Hurriyat Conference leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq to a proposed protest in Delhi next week, and accused the BJP and sections of the media of deliberately creating a controversy to divert attention from the party’s campaign for […]
JAMMU — The counter intelligence unit in Jammu has arrested three publishers in connection with the ongoing investigation into a controversy surrounding certain books in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Sunday. This decision follows coordinated operations in both Jammu and Delhi. The arrests are part of a broader investigation into the publication and distribution […]
JAMMU — A fresh batch of 9,153 pilgrims, including 2,345 women, departed from the Bhagwati Nagar Yatri Niwas base camp in Jammu early Sunday to join the annual Amarnath Yatra in the south Kashmir Himalayas, officials said. The pilgrims, travelling in 359 vehicles, left for the twin base camps of Baltal in Ganderbal district and […]
SRINAGAR — A 27-year-old man was killed after being hit by a dislodged boulder from a mountain in the Pahalgam area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district, officials said on Sunday. Shabir Ahmad Shah was hit by the boulder when he was asleep in his tent at the Eidgah in Chandanwari during the intervening night […]
SRINAGAR — Several hotels and houses were inundated in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam on Saturday after a cloudburst triggered flash floods in a stream, officials said. A sudden spell of intense rainfall, possibly caused by a localised cloudburst, struck the forest areas of Awoora and Dehwathu in Pahalgam, in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, they said. […]
JAMMU — A case was registered against a person on Saturday for allegedly defrauding a local resident of Rs 3.58 lakh through multiple online transactions on the pretext of arranging a study visa to Australia, an official said. The Special Crime Wing of the Crime Branch Jammu booked Puneet Singh, a resident of Upper Gadi […]
JAMMU — Three minor children including a girl, a native of Rajasthan, drowned in a tragic incident in the outskirts of Jammu district on Saturday, officials said. The children reportedly entered a pond to bathe at village Dhanwal in Jouria area of Akhnoor when they drowned, the officials said. The officials identified the deceased as […]
SRINAGAR — Police on Saturday attached a double-storey residential house worth over Rs 1.2 crore belonging to an accused in case under the NDPS Act in Srinagar, officials said. The house, built on eight marlas of land and having an estimated market value of over Rs 1.20 crore, belongs to Zamin Makhdoomi, a resident of […]
JAMMU — An alleged drug peddler was detained under the PIT-NDPS Act in Udhampur district, while four more were arrested after they were caught with narcotic substances at different places in Samba, Kathua and Rajouri districts of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Saturday. Sanjay Kumar alias “Sanju”, a resident of Phalata village, was detained […]