SRINAGAR — Union minister Dr Jitendra Singh on Thursday expressed gratitude to the Union Home Minister Amit Shah for granting ST status to Pahari community in Jammu and Kashmir. Taking to Twitter, the minister said that this could have been possible only in a government headed by PM Narendra Modi. “Thanks HM Sh @AmitShah ji […]
SRINAGAR — The widening of Srinagar-Jammu national highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with the rest of the country, would be completed by 2025, an official said. Project Director and Regional Officer National Highway Authority of India Purshottam Kumar told news agency Kashmir News Observer that there are different packages in the national highway […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday ordered transfers and postings of five JKAS officers in the intrest of administration. According to an order, Ms. Kusum Badyal, JKAS, Secretary in the Industries & Commerce Department is transferred and posted as Secretary in ARI & Trainings Department. Ms. Nitu Gupta, JKAS, Additional Commissioner, State […]
BANIHAL — A newly-engaged couple was found hanging near their houses in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district on Monday, officials said. The man, Amresh Singh (26), was a resident of Jarnal Panchal while the woman Sapna Devi (20) hails from Barthyal Panchal in the district. They were found hanging under suspicious circumstances, they said. To […]
SRINAGAR — Four police officers from Jammu and Kashmir were among those who were awarded with Union Home Minister’s Special Operation Medal for the year 2022z According to a list, DIG Jammu, Vivek Gupta, SSP Jammu, Chandan Kohli, SDPO Gandhi Nagar Sachit Sharma and SGCT Vicky Kumar were among those who were awarded with the […]
JAMMU — Four persons including a policeman were killed and nine persons were injured as rescue operation following two landslides at Ratle power project in Drabshalla area of Kishtwar concluded on Sunday. Official sources told GNS that last evening there was a landslide, trapping a JCB operator and few others at work in the Rattle […]
SRINAGAR — Two persons have been arrested in a case related to dropping of consignment via drone along the Line of Control in RS Pura on the intervening night of October 27 and 28, police said here. In a statement, a spokesperson said that on the intervening 27th and 28th October a suspicious movement of […]
JAMMU — The construction of the longest flyover in Jammu and Kashmir has been completed and is awaiting a formal inauguration. This 4.6 km long flyover is built on the Jammu-Akhnoor road and connects Kanal Head to Ganesh Vihar Mithi near the Directorate of School Education Jammu. Although it is complete, it has not been […]
JAMMU — Passengers of a minibus had a narrow escape after it caught fire in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, officials said. The minibus, which was on its way from Jammu to Rajouri, suddenly caught fire on the Jammu-Poonch highway near the Kappa Galla area, they said. The officials said the driver […]
JAMMU — Administration and police officers here trekked 14 km uphill to reach out to fire victims in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district, an official said on Saturday. Twenty-three families in Chug-Gandhari village lost their houses in a fire in the early hours of Friday. Jammu Divisional Commissioner Ramesh Kumar, Doda-Kishtwar-Ramban Range Deputy Inspector General […]