SRINAGAR — The government on Saturday ordered transfer of two JKAS officers and assigned addition charge of a post to another officer in the interest of administration with immediate effect. According to a government order, Mohammad Akbar Wani (JKAS), Managing Director, J&K Cable Car Corporation, has been transferred and posted as Secretary in the Agriculture […]
BUDGAM — Jammu and Kashmir Police Saturday said that they have arrested a teenager for stabbing a man in central Kashmir’s Budgam district. In a statement, police said that yesterday at about 21: 30 hrs a scuffle broke out between Mehrosh Parvaiz son of Parvaiz Ahmad Rather resident of Hanjoora aged about 19/20 years and […]
SRINAGAR — Citing “unprecedented flow of tourists” and threat to ecologically fragile environs of the place, Chief Executive Officer of Gulmarg Development Authority has written a letter to Director School Education Kashmir, urging him to ask educational institutions in the Valley not to plan excursion/picnic to the famous resort on weekend. From last couple of […]
KULGAM — At a time when Kashmir is under the grip of heightened tensions in the wake of killing of a Kashmiri Pandit employee by militants at Tehsil office Chadoora in Central district of Budgam, Muslims and KP’s continued to share and further strengthen the age-old bond of brotherhood and communal harmony at Y K […]
SRINAGAR — National Investigation Agency (NIA) is carrying out raids at multiple locations in Kashmir Valley in connection with a case already registered at NIA office, officials said on Saturday. Official sources told KDC that NIA sleuths with the assistance of police and CRPF is carrying out raids in Baramulla, and south Kashmir’s Shopian. The […]
BUDGAM — A man was killed on Friday late evening after hit by a vehicle in Chadoora area of Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. However, family members of the deceased held protest and alleged that he was murdered. Family members said that, yesterday about 8. 30 pm he was at home when someone called him to […]
SRINAGAR — A female tourist from Gujarat died due to a cardiac arrest in summer capital Srinagar on Saturday. An official said that the tourist identified as Salma Siddiqui, wife of Siddiqui Bhai Mansoor, a resident of Ahmedabad Gujarat, who was staying at a local hotel complained of chest pain and was shifted to SMHS […]
SRINAGAR — Police on Saturday claimed to have arrested a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant in Rohama area of Rafiabad in North Kashmir and recovered arms and ammunition from his possession. According to police statement, “on the intervening night of 13 May, on receipt of specific input from JKP of the movement of one unidentified militant in […]
SRINAGAR — The India Meteorological Department on Saturday forecast hot and dry weather for Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh during the next 24 hours. “Hot and dry weather is expected in J&K and Ladakh during the next 24 hours”, an official of the MeT department said. Meanwhile, Srinagar registered 14.2 dgrees Celcius, Pahalgam 5.8 and […]
KUPWARA — At least four persons, including a father son duo, died in a probable case of asphyxiation while cleaning a well in Keegam area of frontier north Kashmir’s Kupwara district. Local sources told GNS that commotion broke out in Keegam Kandi this afternoon after news spread of four persons falling unconscious while cleaning a […]