JAMMU — Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik appeared via video-conferencing before a special court here on Friday and an eyewitness identified him in the 1989 kidnapping of Rubaiya Sayeed, the daughter of then Union home minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed. The eyewitness corroborated that he had gone to Sopore in Baramulla district of […]
LUCKNOW — Twenty-three children from a government-run school in Srinagar, who are on an eight-day Bharat Darshan tour, visited the Bada Imambara and later went to the Lulu Mall in Lucknow. The tour organised by Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) Frontier Unit reached the Uttar Pradesh state capital from Chandigarh. The children were amazed to see […]
JAMMU — In a meeting chaired by the Chief Secretary to deliberate upon misinformation created regarding property tax in Jammu and Kashmir, it was clarified that all the poor, marginalized having small houses having built-up area up to 1000 square feet have been exempted by the government from paying any property tax to be levied […]
SRINAGAR — A man from Pulwama was killed after being hit by moving train on Budgam-Srinagar section on Thursday. The man identified as Sanaullah Bhat, son of Abdul Ahad Bhat, a resident of Lajoora Pulwama was seriously injured after being hit by a train. He was immediately evacuated from the spot to the hospital, where […]
SOPORE — A man was injured in a mysterious blast in Warpora area of Sopore in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Thursday. Quoting an official, news agency KNO reported that the man identified as Mohammad Jamal Dar, son of Ghulam Mohammad Dar of Warpora Sopore was digging earth at his orchard in Warpora when the […]
KULGAM — A residential house and some shops were damaged on Thursday after a landslide occurred in Noorabad area of Damhal Hanjipora in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district. An official told news agency KNO that landslide took place at Shalmachi Yarikhah in Noorabad in which almost 3-5 shops belonging to Fayaz Ahmad Hajam and Abdul Majeed […]
SRINAGAR — The Meteorological Department on Thursday forecast mainly clear weather in Jammu and Kashmir for next 24 hours. The weather was dry and clear during last 24 hours in the Union Territory. An official of the Meteorological Department said, mainly clear weather is expected in Jammu and Kashmir during the next 24 hours. He […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday said that it has arrested a man for sexually assaulting a minor girl at Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Soura in Srinagar. Police said that a person namely Mohd Ashraf Lone, S/o Ali Mohd Lone R/o Tanghar Pulwama was arrested for sexually assaulting a minor girl […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory Government on Wednesday, in a major reshuffle, ordered transfers and postings of 50 police officers in the interest of administration. According to an order, Shri Swarn Singh Kotwal, SSP, Security, Jammu, is transfe1Ted and posted as Commandant, SDRF 1st Bn. Srinagar, against an available vacancy. Shri Aijaz […]
SRINAGAR — Job aspirants, who had applied for various posts in the Fire and Emergency Services, on Wednesday held a demonstration here demanding that the Jammu and Kashmir administration make public the report of the inquiry committee formed to probe alleged irregularities in the recruitment process. The protestors assembled at Press Colony on Residency Road […]