SRINAGAR — Liquid explosives appear to have returned to the militancy theatre of Jammu Kashmir after 15 years with a consignment of three bottles of a white liquid recently being air-dropped by drones entering from Pakistan along the international border in Jammu, officials said on Sunday. Director General of Jammu Kashmir Police Dilbag Singh, during […]
SRINAGAR — An elderly man was killed while 34 others including a cop and 18 females were injured in a grenade attack at Hari Singh High Street area of commercial Hub Lal Chowk in Srinagar on Sunday. Officials said that unidentified persons lobbed a grenade towards security forces in the busiest HSHS area, leaving 34 […]
KUPWARA — Authorities in Kupwara district of north Kashmir have booked four notorious drug peddlers’, police said on Sunday. “Acting tough against the menace of drugs peddling in the district, police today detained four more notorious drugs peddlers under PSA under the provisions of the Illicit Drugs trafficking law,” a police official told GNS. The […]
SRINAGAR — In order to provide adequate Job opportunities to the youth of J&K and make them self dependent, the Government of Jammu and Kashmir has started ‘Be Rozgar Se Swarozgar Scheme’. The scheme is part of 10-point campaign initiated by government to give a renewed push to the implementation of employment and other beneficiary […]
SRINAGAR — Private Schools Association of Jammu and Kashmir (PSAJK) today said that it is fully aware of the transportation crisis that has affected both schools and the parents at the onset of opening of schools. The Association said that the opening of educational institutes after three years has come up with a new set […]
SRINAGAR — A tourist from Uttar Pradesh died of a ‘suspected’ heart attack at a luxury hotel falling in the jurisdiction of central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Sunday, officials said An official said that 56-year-old Gayas Ud Din Ansari son of Jalal Ud Din from Uttar Pradesh fell unconscious at Golden Tulip in the jurisdiction […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir Police was lucky to get evidence from the scene of crime of the February 1 acid attack on a woman as someone had “inadvertently” cleaned the area with water, according to the charge sheet filed in the case. The victim, whose identity is not to be disclosed as per […]
BUDGAM — A mother-daughter duo was injured in a pressure cooker blast on Sunday morning in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. Officials sources said that mother-daughter duo was injured in a pressure blast at Futli Pora Pakharpora area of Budgam. The duo identified as Hajara Bano (55), wife of Wali Muhammad Laway and her daughter Sabnam […]
SRINAGAR — Cloudy weather with short spells of sunshine continued in J&K and Ladakh on Sunday as the Meteorological (MeT) department forecast moderate to heavy rain and snow in both the union territories during the next 24 hours. “A fresh Western Disturbance is activity over J&K and Ladakh. Widespread rain/snow is likely to occur during […]
SRINAGAR — The shopkeepers in Maisuma area of Srinagar on Saturday closed down their shops after a shopkeeper was allegedly beaten by the traffic police officials when they were removing the illegal car parking from the roadsides. A shopkeeper was allegedly thrashed when he tried to intervene after a customer’s vehicle was being fined for […]