PULWAMA (KIMS) — Pulwama Police has sought public assistance to trace Mehvish Shamim, aged around 20, daughter of Shamim Ahmad Allie, a resident of Okhoo Kakpora, who has been missing since Monday morning. Police said the missing report was filed by her uncle, Muzamil Ali, son of Ali Mohammad Lone of Okhoo, upon which Police […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir government has approved relaxation in the upper age limit for recruitment to government jobs in the Union Territory, a ruling National Conference MLA said on Tuesday. “The (J-K CM’s) Secretariat has confirmed to me that Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has approved and forwarded the age relaxation,” MLA Zadibal Tanvir […]
NEW DELHI — Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Surinder Kumar Choudhary, who has filed a defamation suit, on Tuesday urged the Delhi High Court for a direction to remove certain objectionable content against him on social media. Choudhary, a member of the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference, sought permanent and mandatory injunction alleging that […]
JAMMU — The CBI was left red-faced on Tuesday when a special court set free Shafat Ahmed Shangloo, a day after the agency arrested him in connection with the 1989 kidnapping of Rubaiyya Sayeed — the daughter of the then home minister Mufi Mohammed Sayeed. Shangloo was produced before the special TADA court, where the […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday defended merit-based admissions to the Shri Mata Vaishnodevi Institute of Medical Excellence (SMVDIME), saying seats cannot be distributed on the basis of religion under the Constitution. “When the decision was taken to set up a medical college at the university, it was already known […]
JAMMU — Two persons have been booked for using banned virtual private network (VPN) applications on their mobile phones in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district, and one of them was arrested, officials said on Tuesday. The action was taken following strict enforcement of prohibitory orders issued by the Rajouri district magistrate (DM), banning the use […]
SRINAGAR — After four years, People’s Democratic Party leader Waheed-ur-Rehman Para, accused in a terror conspiracy case, was granted permission to travel within the country by the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court on Tuesday. Para was granted bail by a division bench of the High Court in May 2022 on a surety of […]
JAMMU — Lieutenant Governor Kavinder Gupta on Tuesday paid obeisance at the holy cave shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi and expressed optimism about the future, saying that tourism in Ladakh will expand significantly in the coming days. Talking to reporters after offering prayers at the cave shrine on his birthday, Gupta said tourism in Ladakh […]
JAMMU — The Jammu and Kashmir government on Monday designated the Board of School Education as the State School Standards Authority for the Union territory, in accordance with the provisions of the National Education Policy 2020. An order issued by the Under Secretary in the School Education Department, Thanaji Bhat, said the decision is aimed […]
JAMMU — Several Hindu rights groups on Monday adopted a resolution to intensify their protest for minority status for Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Medical College. The groups have also been demanding that the recently released admission list, which carries mostly Muslim names, be changed. The agitation follows the selection of 42 Muslim, one Sikh, and […]