SRINAGAR — Budgam District Development Council (DDC) Chairman Nazir Ahmad Khan was removed on Monday after a no-confidence motion was passed against him by the rest of the body’s members, officials said. Khan, an Independent, was elected chairperson of the 14-member council after the maiden Jammu and Kashmir DDC elections were held in December 2020. […]
SRINAGAR — Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday met wife and 20-month-old son of Kirti Chakra awardee Humayun Muzammil Bhat, the deputy superintendent of police who died while battling terrorists in 2023. The meeting with Fathima and her son Ashar at Raj Bhawan here was a courtesy call by the home minister to the […]
KUPWARA (KIMS) — Police on Monday solved theft case in Kupwara and arrested accused person involved in the crime and recovered stolen batteries from his possession. Police Post Bazaar received a written complaint stating that unknown miscreants had stolen batteries from tippers and trucks parked at Regipora. Acting promptly, an FIR No. 88/2025 under Section […]
SRINAGAR — A “chance meeting” between Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and Union minister Kiren Rijiju at Asia’s largest Tulip Garden here on Monday triggered a political storm with opposition parties dubbing it as “Waqf law bonhomie”. Sources in the ruling National Conference said that Omar Abdullah was accompanying his father and former […]
SRINAGAR — National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah Monday termed the Waqf (Amendment) Act as “unconstitutional”, saying his party was against it and was hoping for justice from the Supreme Court. “NC is against this (Waqf) Bill. We think it is unconstitutional and parties have gone to the Supreme Court… that is why (Jammu and […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — J&K Police on Monday attached property of a notorious drug peddler under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act in Anantnag district. A double-storeyed residential house built over 5 marlas of land and owned by Peer Iftikar Hussain, resident of Hutmurah, Mattan, has been attached under Section 68-F(1) of the NDPS Act. […]
JAMMU — Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday met the families of 10 police personnel and an engineer who lost their lives in various terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir over the past year and handed over job appointment letters to the next of kin, officials said. The minister, who is on a three-day […]
KARACHI — The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Monday denied reports that chairman Mohsin Naqvi is stepping down from his role following his appointment as president of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC). The PCB termed the reports “baseless.” Speculations have been rife since last week in Pakistan cricket circles that Naqvi had sent his resignation […]
SRINAGAR — Peoples’ Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti on Monday accused the National Conference government of yielding to the BJP’s “anti-Muslim” agenda, after an adjournment motion on the Waqf Amendment Act was rejected in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly. Lashing out at Omar Abdullah, she said Muslims in the country expected that a Muslim chief […]
SRINAGAR — In a proud moment for Kashmir, Raja Manzoor Tariq, a student of B.Sc. Nutrition and Dietetics from GNA University, Phagwara, has brought laurels to the valley by securing a position in the Top 100 startups at a prestigious national-level entrepreneurship competition. The event, SBI Youth Ideathon, was organized by the State Bank of […]