BUDGAM — A 23-year-old youth was found dead under mysterious circumstances in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Saturday morning. Quoting an official, news agency KNO reported that the body of a youth identified as Shabir Ahmad Jehrah, son of Mohd Yousuf Jehrah was found by family members near his home in Gogjipathri Wangwas area of […]
NEW DELHI — Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was on Friday remanded in six-day Enforcement Directorate custody ending March 28 by a local court, a day after the probe agency arrested him in connection with the excise policy case, PTI reported. The central agency, which had arrested Kejriwal on Thursday evening, produced him before the […]
SRINAGAR — Former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Friday wrote a letter to the Union railways minister Ashwini Vaishnaw regarding land acquisition for a railway project in the Reshi Pora, Zainapora area of Shopian district. In the letter, Mufti emphasized the crucial effect of the proposed land acquisition on the local community’s livelihoods, particularly due […]
NEW DELHI — The veteran journalist and group editor of National Herald, Zafar Agha, passed away at the age of 70 at Fortis Hospital in Vasant Kunj, New Delhi after brief illness on Friday, PTI reported. Agha was born in 1954 at Allahabad and did Masters in English Literature from Allahabad University. Agha began his […]
SRINAGAR — National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah on Friday said the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was a “blot” on democracy, and shows the ruling party’s “remarkable degree of nervousness,” according to PTI. The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said his party stands with Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). […]
SRINAGAR — An Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) of Jammu and Kashmir Police died due to cardiac arrest in Srinagar on Friday. Quoting an official, news agency KDC reported that an Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) namely Mushtaq Ahmad, a resident of Karnah Kupwara fell unconscious while performing his duty at Abi-Guzar area Srinagar this afternoon. He said, the […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Ahead of upcoming Lok Sabha Election, the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday allocates ‘Bucket’ as the election symbol for Ghulam Nabi Azad led Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP). The symbol was allocated to the Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) for the Lok Sabha elections. According to Chief Spokesperson of Democratic […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — As the rain lashed plains and higher reaches received snowfall in last 24 hours, the Meteorological Department (MeT) on Friday forecast generally dry weather in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir till March 26. “Today, the weather is expected to remain generally cloudy with possibility of light rain and snowfall at […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir Police have registered a formal First Information Report (FIR) against a Facebook page admin, Mudasir Bashir Bhat, alias Mudasir Aziz. An FIR copy accessed by Srinagar-based news-gathering agency Kashmir Dot Com states that one Mudasir Bashir Bhat, son of Bashir Ahmad Bhat, a resident of Khayam, Srinagar, has been […]
SRINAGAR — Jailed separatist leader Shabir Ahmad Shah’s daughter Sama Shabir and Hurriyat patriarch Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s granddaughter Ruwa Shah have put out nearly identical notices in local newspapers in Kashmir, disassociating themselves from “separatist ideology” and pledging their loyalty to “the sovereignty of Union of India”, PTI reported. Ruwa Shah, whose father and […]