SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday handed over Rs five lakh as a gesture of support to the family of a woman, who succumbed to the injuries received in a grenade attack here earlier this month. Minister for Health and Medical Education, Social Welfare and Education Sakeena Masood visited Sumbal, Bandipora, to […]
SRINAGAR — Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district on Wednesday found more than 90 per cent of the employees, including doctors, at a hospital absent from their duties and sought an explanation from them, officials said. The employees were found absent during a surprise inspection of the Shopian District Hospital at 10:10 am, conducted […]
NEW DELHI — Jammu and Kashmir has witnessed an over 70 per cent decline in terror-related incidents under the Narendra Modi government since 2019, according to a Union Home Ministry presentation to a parliamentary panel. Official sources said that while making the presentation, Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan told the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home […]
SRINAGAR — The National Investigation Agency (NIA) attached the houses of an accused on Wednesday, in a double murder case in J&K’s Srinagar. Officials said that the NIA team attached the two-storeyed residential house of an accused in Zaldagar area of Srinagar city. The NIA action comes on back of investigation into the murder of […]
SRINAGAR — Srinagar police Wednesday said, they could not establish the armed attack on the Kashmir University Vice Chancellor near Zakura even when they factored in all possible circumstances, they said. As per police, some reports claimed that the VC was attacked with firearms. However, they said, police teams who visited the spot did not […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Jammu and Kashmir Anti Corruption Bureau has registered a case under Prevention of Corruption Act on outcome of a Verification conducted by ACB into the allegations relating to award of payments in the construction of Mughal Road from Bufliaz to Shopian-Pulwama, wherein Chief Engineer purportedly admitted the claims of the company, which […]
SRINAGAR — Light intermittent snowfall continued in some of the higher reaches of Kashmir, resulting in the closure of vital routes in the upper areas of the valley, officials said on Tuesday. The season’s first snowfall in Kashmir, which began on Monday, continued at many places during the night, the officials said. They said reports […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — A woman from Bandipora district of North Kashmir who was critically injured in a grenade attack at the Sunday Market in Srinagar on November 3, has succumbed to her injuries. According to reports, Sumaiya Jan, wife of Zubair Ahmad Lone from Naidkhai Sonawari, passed away on Tuesday at SHMS Hospital in Srinagar. […]
SRINAGAR — Twenty civilian vehicles stuck due to heavy snowfall in Razdan Pass of Jammu & Kashmir’s Bandipora district were rescued on Tuesday in a night-long operation by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO). Officials said 20 civilian vehicles on way to Gurez were stuck due to heavy snowfall and poor visibility at Razdan Pass. Razdan […]
SRINAGAR — Thousands of youth lined up at an Army recruitment rally in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, officials said. The aspirants queued up before day break at Ganthmulla in the hope of joining the Army, the officials said. The recruitment drive began on Monday and will continue till Sunday. While some […]