SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Police has arrested a 26-year-old man for allegedly raping his younger sister in Watrina area of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district. Reliable sources told that a 23-year-old girl registered a written complaint at Police Station Bandipora alleging that her brother was constantly raping her from last many years. According to sources, […]
NEW DELHI — The Delhi Police has suspended the station house officer (SHO) of Adarsh Nagar police station, C. P. Bhardwaj, a week after he prevented a group of Hindutva activists from harassing a maulvi of a mazar on a flyover in Delhi. A video of the incident was widely viewed and commented about on […]
SRINAGAR — Ahead of I-Day celebrations, Police in Kashmir capital Srinagar carried out an air surveillance to prevent any untoward incident. Top police officials from police station Kothi Bagh including SDPO Ghulam Mohiuddin and SHO Muhammad Ishaq took stock of the situation in city-city Lal Chowk, Budshah Chowk, Residency Road and in adjacent areas. Police […]
Accussed cop arrested; Investigations on: SSP Kathua JAMMU — A police constable was killed by his colleague after the duo fought over some issue late on Wednesday night in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir. Reliable sources told that, “A police constable identified as Mohammad Younis of Reasi died when his colleague Constable Iqbal Singh […]
UNITED NATIONS — Conflict in different parts of Afghanistan in the last week has driven tens of thousands of people away from their homes, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Wednesday. The office said that they are part of the nearly 390,000 people displaced by hostilities this year, with […]
YAVATMAL — A 24-year-old school dropout, who aspired to build a helicopter himself, died after one of the rotor blades of the chopper he was testing, broke and slashed his throat at Fulsawangi village in Mahagaon tehsil of the district on Tuesday night. The deceased Sheikh Ismail Sheikh Ibrahim had stopped going to school while […]
NEW DELHI — The home ministry on Wednesday told the Rajya Sabha that non-agricultural land in Jammu & Kashmir can be transferred to “outsiders” – or people who are not permanent residents or having J&K domicile – by the UT government only for educational, charitable and medical ventures. “As per the adapted land laws of […]
JAMMU — The Jammu and Kashmir Services Selection Board (JKSSB) has advertised more than 19000 posts of various cadres and categories relating to different departments under Accelerated Recruitment Programme in recent months. The Board has also successfully conducted the examination for about 12500 posts. To continue the selection process, the JKSSB has scheduled Computer Based […]
NEW DELHI — A Delhi court on Wednesday granted bail to former BJP spokesperson Ashwini Upadhyay, who was arrested in connection with anti-Muslim slogans allegedly raised during a protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar. Metropolitan Magistrate Udbhav Kumar Jain granted relief to Upadhyay, who is an advocate, on a bond of Rs 50,000. The accused was […]
NEW DELHI — No political party outside Jammu and Kashmir has protested against the revocation of Article 370, even two years after the decision, because of a broader national consensus on the issue, said Ram Madhav, member of the RSS national executive. In an interview to ThePrint’s Contributing Editor Jyoti Malhotra, Madhav, a former BJP […]