NEW DELHI — As many as 156 Armymen and three IAF personnel were killed in militant attacks as well as counter-militant operations in the last five years, according to details provided by the Defence ministry in Rajya Sabha on Monday. Responding to a question, Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt said the Army’s fatal […]
NEW DELHI — The education department has been allocated the highest Rs 11,832.77 crore followed by Rs 10,831.18 crore for the home department, which controls police, in the Rs 1.42 lakh crore budget for the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir for 2022-23 presented by Union finance minister in Lok Sabha on Monday. Sitharaman also […]
SRINAGAR — A three-member fact finding committee (FFC) of the Press Council of India on Jammu and Kashmir has said that the news media in the Union Territory, especially in the valley, is “slowly being choked” due to extensive curbs imposed by the local administration. Six months after the PCI, a statutory quasi-judicial body which […]
SRINAGAR — Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday unveiled Rs 112950 crore budget for Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory for 2022-23 in the Lok Sabha. Rs 112950 crore budget estimates, Rs 71615 crore is revenue expenditure and Rs 41335 crore is capital expenditure. As per budget documents, the estimates of budget for ongoing fiscal […]
GANDERBAL — A residential house was damaged in a blaze that broke out in Check Duderhama Ganderbal area of Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district. An official said that a fire broke out in a residential house belonging to Nazir Ahmad Ganie, son of Abdul Gani Ganie of Check Duderham today afternoon. Although no casualty was reported […]
SRINAGAR — Police on Monday claimed to have busted a module of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen outfit by arresting three ‘militant associates’ involved in the recent killing of a Sarpanch in southern district of Kulgam. “Kulgam Police busted #terror module of proscribed outfit HM involved in recent #killing of #Sarpanch Shabir Ahmad Mir & arrested 03 #militant associates […]
SRINAGAR — Police on Monday claimed to have arrested an alleged Lashkar associate involved in the killing of a Light Infantry soldier from Budgam whose body was found in Khag area of the district last week three days after he went missing. Police said that three more militants involved in the killing have been identified […]
SRINAGAR — Three poachers were arrested while three single bore guns were recovered in Narkarah wetland area of central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Monday. Official sources said that on acting on the complaint lodged by Range officer Wildlife control room Srinagar about the specific information that three persons were poaching migratory birds at nambal Narkarah […]
SRINAGAR — Government has slapped contentious Public Safety Act on Journalist Fahad Shah, the lawyer of Fahad informed on Monday. Fahad Shah was arrested last month February 4 by Pulwama Police for posting allegedly anti-national content on social media and booked under the UAPA charges. He was granted bail after 22 days by a National […]
SRINAGAR — Weather remained fair with pleasant sunshine in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh on Monday as the Met Department has predicted dry weather to continue for the next 24 hours. “Weather is likely to remain dry and fair in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh during the next 24 hours,” a Department official said. On […]