PESHAWAR — Pakistani security forces killed at least three terrorists during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Tank district, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Saturday. A statement from the military’s media wing said security forces conducted an operation based on the reported presence of terrorists. “During the conduct of the operation, own […]
SRINAGAR — Kashmir has received almost 13 percent of the total tourists who visited the Union Territory in the last four years, with the bulk of the share going to the Jammu region, official data suggests. According to the Economic Survey 2024-25, tabled by the Jammu and Kashmir government in the Legislative Assembly, the union […]
SRINAGAR — Apni Party supremo Altaf Bukhari on Saturday demanded raising the minimum residency period to 50 years to be eligible for domicile in Jammu and Kashmir. He also appealed to Jammu and Kashmir MLAs to pass a bill for a change in the domicile law. “My appeal to the assembly, in which we have […]
JAMMU — Director General of Border Security Force (BSF) Daljit Singh Chawdhary on Saturday visited forward areas along the International Border and Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir to review the security situation, an official said. Chawdhary, who reached here on a two-day visit to the Jammu frontier, visited the areas along the […]
BUDGAM (KIMS) — Jammu and Kashmir Police on Saturday have attached the immovable property of a notorious drug peddler in central Kashmir’s Budgam district. The attached property, a single-story residential house valued at ₹18,00,000 belongs to Mohammad Rafeeq Sheikh S/o Abdul Razaq Sheikh R/o Mazhama. This action has been carried out under Section 68-F of […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Police on Saturday attached properties worth lakhs of rupees of two proclaimed offenders in Sopore in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Police have attached 6 kanals and 19 marlas of orchard land belonging to two proclaimed offenders on the Harwan Tujjar estate. They have been identified as Irshad Ahmad Reshi resident of Yamberzalwari […]
JAMMU — Bodies of three missing persons were sighted through drones by security forces at a waterfall in the higher reaches of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district on Saturday, officials said. Darshan Singh (40) and Yogesh Singh (32), both residents of Marhoon, and Varun Singh (15), a resident of Dehota, were reported missing on March […]
JAMMU — As many as 765 school buildings and 11 bridges have been declared unsafe, while another 371 bridges require major or minor repairs, Deputy Chief Minister Surinder Choudhary said on Saturday. Choudhary, who is Minister incharge of Public Works (Roads and buildings Department), provided the information in a written reply to an unstarred question […]
JAMMU — The Jammu and Kashmir government is planning to set up nearly a dozen townships at various places, including the twin capital cities, to check unplanned urban expansion and meet the housing needs of people, Health Minister Sakeena Itoo said on Saturday. The minister was replying on behalf of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Surinder Choudhary on Saturday informed the house that a private company was fined Rs 80 lakh for unauthorised mining in Budgam district. The issue was highlighted in the Legislative Assembly by MLA Khan Sahab, Safiud-Din-Bhat, bringing it to the immediate attention of the House. The deputy chief […]