JAMMU — A Pakistani drone carrying nearly half a kg of high-grade narcotic substance was seized by the Border Security Force near the International Border here, officials said on Sunday. The quadcopter entered India from across the border and was seized from the Chinaz Border Outpost area in the Arnia sector late Saturday, they said. […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Jammu and Kashmir Police have arrested two drug peddlers in Srinagar district of Kashmir valley on Sunday and recovered charas and ganja like substance from their possession. “During Naka Checking at Budgeer Kawdara crossing, a party of Police Post Urdu Bazar arrested two drug peddlers namely Milad Bashir Bhat, son of Bashir […]
ISLAMABAD — An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Islamabad has discharged 32 individuals arrested during Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) protest at D-Chowk. The suspects were presented for identification before ATC Judge Abul Hasnat Zulqarnain late at night, prompting the judge to express displeasure at the timing. Defence lawyer Ansar Kiyani argued that police had arrested innocent workers […]
NEW DELHI — Opposition MPs on Saturday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of attacking the Constitution, with National Conference (NC) MP Mian Altaf Ahmad saying while the Congress apologised for imposing Emergency, the ruling party has been silent on its own actions. Participating in a debate on 75 years of the adoption of the […]
JAMMU — Shiv Sena (UBT) activists led by local party unit president Manish Sahni on Saturday staged a protest here, demanding immediate restoration of statehood to the Union Territory. The protest was staged near Tawi bridge in front of the statue of last Dogra ruler Maharaja Hari Singh with participants holding placards that read “stop […]
JAMMU — A female teacher was killed after a vehicle met with an accident near Mokha Gali Jamaslan area of Mahore in Reasi district on Saturday. Officials told GNS that the incident happened when a Alto car bearing registration number JK20B-3452 lost its control and rolled down 350 feet deep from the road near Mokha […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Jammu and Kashmir Police attached a residential property of a chronic drug peddler under NDPS Act in Srinagar district of Kashmir valley. Jammu and Kashmir Police attached a residential house valuing about Rs 19 lakhs of a chronic drug peddler, Mohammad Younis Wani, son of Mohammad Maqbool Wani of Ranbirgarh Srinagar under […]
NEW DELHI — The NIA on Saturday filed a charge sheet against an accused who provided logistical support for a militant attack on a bus carrying pilgrims near Katra in Jammu and Kashmir in June. Eight pilgrims as well as the bus driver were killed in the incident. Hakam Khan alias Hakim Din was charged […]
SRINAGAR — People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti Saturday said the idea of ‘one nation, one election’ undermines the the country’s federal structure. “Unfortunately, this NDA government is destroying India’s Constitution day by day. India is a federal country, which has a federal structure. By talking of ‘one nation, one election’, you are undermining […]
NEW DELHI — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has bluntly termed the dual governance model in the Union Territory — where he shares power with the lieutenant governor — a “recipe for disaster”, as he urged the Centre to keep its promise and restore statehood to the region at the earliest. In his […]