NEW DELHI — In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah Saturday, a group of 93 former civil servants raised concerns over a slew of draft legislations brought in by the Lakshadweep administrator P.K. Patel since February this year. Calling Patel’s decisions as “disturbing”, the body called the Constitutional Conduct Group (CCG) […]
SAIMA KHAN SHOPIAN — Gazi Muzamil, President of Jammu and Kashmir Students Movement (JKSM) said that the government of Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory should allow the community classes for students to ease their sufferings during the Covid-19 pandemic. The students have confined themselves to four walls and have become dull due to online mode […]
‘2 AK 56 riffles, 10 pistols, 9 grenades among recoveries’ KULGAM — Security Forces Saturday recovered huge cache of arms and ammunition from a vehicle on national highway near Qazigund area of in Kulgam district and arrested two persons. A senior Police officer told that a joint team of security forces arrested two person during […]
SRINAGAR — A 23-year-old journalist was booked by the Jammu and Kashmir police for a WhatsApp status on a boat tragedy in which 21 children were killed in 2006. Sajid Raina, from north Kashmir’s Bandipora district, has worked with various media outlets. On May 30, he had uploaded a WhatsApp status on the 15th anniversary […]
SRINAGAR — Taking full advantage of Covid-19 related lockdown, some Srinagar Municipal Corporation employees are allowing people to go for illegal construction in Safakadal area of Srinagar city. Insiders told news agency Kashmir News Trust that SMC Ward Officer and Building Inspector are facilitating illegal constructions in Ward number 18 in Safakadal. They said no […]
ANANTNAG — Armys 19 Rashtriya Rifles Dailgam COB under Major Rahul organised counselling career cum motivational event for the local youth belonging to below poverty line and orphan to guide them and prepare to get jobs for their bright future. The aim of the event was to guide poorer youths regarding opportunities to get jobs […]
SHOPIAN — Sarjan Barkati, a famous religious preacher, who was arrested two days after delivering a speech on Eid-ul-Fitr was on Saturday released. Family sources told that Barkati, who was arrested by Zainapora police around three weeks ago, was released today. Meanwhile, an official said that Sarjan had delivered a speech on Eid day in […]
BANIHAL — Five people, including a CRPF jawan, were killed and one other was critically injured on Saturday when a cab skidded off the road and fell into a 300-meter gorge along the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Jammu and Kashmir”s Ramban district, police said. The SUV was on its way to Jammu from Srinagar and the […]
PULWAMA — Three youngsters were booked on Saturday in Pulwama district of Southern Kashmir under the Public Safety Act (PSA) on the charges of ‘stone-pelting.’ The detained youth were identified as Sameer Mushtaq Lone, son of Mushtaq Ahmed lone, a resident of Kakapora Pulwama, booked under PSA Order No. 22/DMP/PSA/21; Dated 02/06/2021, Mudsir Ahamad Lone, […]
BUDGAM — Wildlife Department officials along with Jammu and Kashmir Police caught a leopard in Khudpora village of Khansahib in central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Saturday morning. An official told Kashmir Dot Com that the wild animal was roaming in the residential areas of Khansahib locality and other adjoining areas posing a threat for the […]