SRINAGAR — A employee working in the Public Health Engineering department, or the Jal Shakti department, has been arrested in a sextortion case on Saturday, police said. “Third accused arrested in Rape, blackmailing and extortion case namely Showkat Ahmad Ragoo S/o Mohd Khalil Ragoo R/o Anantnag,” Srinagar Police tweeted. The third arrest in the case […]
SRINAGAR — A CRPF personnel from the Gurez area of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district has died of bullet wounds in Jharkhand, officials said on Saturday. Officials told GNS that the initial reports suggest that the personnel, Mehrah Ahmad of Wapora Gurez shoot himself to death with his service rifle in a camp of 218 battalion […]
SRINAGAR — Special Investigation Unit in its continuous investigation in different ULPA cases, after Pampore and Kulgam districts, conducted searches in the suspected houses in Srinagar district on Saturday. In a statement, a spokesperson said that searched were conducted in Sheeraz Colony Ganie Near Ration Ghat Soura & Shalbaf Mohalla New Colony Jinab Sahab Anchar […]
SRINAGAR — Opposition parties in Jammu & Kashmir have set up a committee comprising senior leaders of different parties to chalk out future strategy regarding the inclusion of non-locals in the revised electoral rolls of J&K. In a statement, CPI(M) leader MY Tarigami said that an All Party Meeting was held on September 10, wherein […]
SRINAGAR — In a major political development in Jammu & Kashmir, former MLA and powerful Gujjar leader Choudhary Muhammad Akram has reportedly distanced himself from Ghulam Nabi Azad-led Democratic Azad Party, sources disclosed. Sources told news agency Kashmir News Observer that former MLA Surankote Choudhary Muhammad Akram has not participated in the activities of the […]
SRINAGAR — A 21-year-old female student from north Kashmir’s Bandipora district was found hanging in a university hostel in Rajasthan, officials said here on Saturday. An official told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that the girl student from Naidkhai village of Bandipora, who was pursuing Radiology at Mewar University in Rajasthan was found hanging […]
UNITED NATIONS — The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution on solidarity with and support for Pakistan in the wake of the recent devastating floods that has so far killed at least 1,700 people and led to losses worth $40 billion. The resolution, adopted on Friday by consensus, urges the international community, in particular […]
SRINAGAR — In what could be a major boost to the tourism sector in the Kashmir Valley, the government is likely to install “Srinagar Eye” on the pattern of famous “London Eye” inside the world-famous Dal Lake in Central Kashmir’s Srinagar district. Sources told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that like “London Eye”, the […]
SRINAGAR — The Meteorological (MeT) department on Saturday forecast mainly dry weather in Jammu and Kashmir during the next 24 hours. “Weather is likely to remain mainly in J&K during the next 24 hours”, an official of the MeT department said. Meanwhile, Srinagar registered 8.6 degrees Celsius, Pahalgam 5.3 and Gulmarg 4 degrees as the […]
KUPWARA — A Special Police Officer (SPO) succumbed to his injuries after hit by a vehicle at Drugmulla village in North Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Friday evening, official sources said. They told GNS that two persons were injured after hit by an unknown vehicle along Kupwara-Srinagar highway last evening. The injured duo, they said, was […]