NEW DELHI — A controversial poster featuring jailed Kashmiri leader Yasin Malik and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and ‘urging people to vote for Congress’ was taken down by Delhi Police on Tuesday. The poster was put up in the Mandi House roundabout area. “Vote for Congress to support freedom of speech and release of […]
SRINAGAR — The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday filed a complaint against the BJP for allegedly threatening the Pahari Muslims to vote for a particular candidate in Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat in Jammu and Kashmir. “I am writing on behalf of the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party (JKPDP) to bring to your immediate […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday rescheduled polling in Anantnag-Rajouri constituency in Jammu and Kashmir from third phase on May 7 to sixth phase on May 25. The Election Commission of India (ECI) stated that the decision was taken after representations received from different political parties from J&K for shifting […]
JAMMU — A proper rehabilitation plan is being worked out for the families affected by land subsidence in a village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district, officials said on Tuesday. The administration is also carrying out a study of the Pernote village through the Indian Institute of Technology and the Geological Survey of India to […]
KUPWARA — District Administration Kupwara today refuted the fake news reports uploaded by some news channels and a newspaper portal today. The online portals of ‘The WEEK’ news magazine and NDTV.Com, today mentioned in their headlines “5 killed, several injured in landslides and flash floods in Kupwara of J&K”, which is totally baseless. In a […]
SRINAGAR — Police in central Kashmir’s Budgam district have booked a social media user for allegedly posting a video containing doctored/fake footage of the Union Home Minister Amit Shah on social media. A top official told Srinagar-based news gathering agency Kashmir Dot Com that it has been reliably learned that a post containing the ‘fake/doctored’ […]
JAMMU — A 21-year-old woman on Tuesday jumped into river Tawi from a bridge here and was rescued by the timely intervention of locals, officials said. According to police, the woman was walking over the Tawi bridge, connecting Jewel Chowk with Bikram Chowk in the heart of the city, and suddenly jumped into the swollen […]
SRINAGAR — Imran Sheikh, an Independent candidate from Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha constituency, has 20 cases, including one under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, registered against him over the past nine years. This is the maximum number of cases against any of the 20 contestants from the constituency. According […]
JAMMU — Three people died, and two are feared dead in separate incidents after they fell into the swollen streams due to multiple landslides between the Ramban and Banihal stretch here, officials said on Tuesday. Mohd Shafi (65) and Mumira Bano (17) accidentally fell into the fast-flowing waters on Monday while crossing the Deval and […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Following heavy rainfall in the plains and light snowfall in higher reaches over the past 24 hours, the Meteorological Department (MeT) on Tuesday predicted generally dry weather across Jammu and Kashmir from May 1-5. According to an official from the Meteorological Department (MeT), “Today, generally cloudy weather with light rain and thunder […]