PULWAMA (KIMS) — Pulwama Police on Friday issued a public advisory urging social media users, content handlers and members of the media fraternity to strictly refrain from sharing, uploading or circulating any videos or photographs related to the tragic incident involving the minor who slipped into Rambiara Stream and whose body was retrieved today after […]
JAMMU — Security forces busted a terrorist hideout in Kishtwar district on Friday and recovered a large cache of arms, ammunition and explosive material, officials said. During a search operation in the Chatroo area of the district, security forces busted the hideout in the Bajmandoo forest of the Sigdi Bhata area. Officials said it belonged […]
ISLAMABAD — Iran has handed over its latest proposal for negotiations with the United States to mediators in Pakistan, Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reported Friday. The U.S. and Pakistan did not immediately confirm receiving the new proposal. There was no word on what details are included in the plan submitted late Thursday, according to […]
DC Shopian commends rescue teams, volunteers for unified efforts in operation PULWAMA/SHOPIAN (KIMS) — Thousands of people on Friday participated in the funeral prayers of 4-year-old Mohammad Hanzala of Tiken Batpora in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district after his body was retrieved from Heerpora area of Shopian following a five-day-long search operation. Mohammad Hanzala had gone […]
SHOPIAN — The body of a four-year-old boy from Pulwama, who had gone missing after slipping into a stream in south Kashmir’s Shopian district, was on Friday recovered from the Ranbiara nallah in the Hirpora area. An official told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that the deceased, identified as Mohammad Hanzala of Tiken village […]
NEW DELHI — The Haj Committee of India has raised the Haj airfare by Rs 10,000 per pilgrim this year due to a sharp global rise in Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) prices, with the Centre asserting that the increase has been restricted through hard negotiations. The Haj airfare hike has drawn criticism from opposition leaders, […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — The CISF at Srinagar Airport conducted the annual counter-terrorist mock exercise in coordination with CRPF, local police, Airports Authority of India (AAI), BCAS, and other key stakeholders. The exercise evaluated response protocols through the coordinated deployment of specialized units, real-time scenario simulation, and comprehensive testing of actions as per the Counter-Terrorist Contingency […]
SRINAGAR — Jailed Lok Sabha member Sheikh Abdul Rashid on Thursday arrived here to meet his ailing father after the Delhi High Court granted him a week’s interim bail, officials said. Rashid, alias Engineer Rashid, the Lok Sabha MP from Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla, arrived at the Srinagar airport here on Thursday afternoon and drove […]
SRINAGAR — The cyber wing of Jammu and Kashmir Police on Thursday registered an FIR against unidentified persons for posting a video of late separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani on social media, alleging that it glorifies separatist content, officials said. The move comes a day after Peoples Democratic Party leader Iltija Mufti posted a […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday chaired a cabinet meeting to review key development initiatives and discuss governance priorities in the Union territory. This was the last cabinet meeting chaired by Abdullah in Jammu before moving offices to the summer capital, Srinagar. “Chief Minister chaired a cabinet meeting this morning […]