SRINAGAR — Kashmir’s chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has remained under house arrest for nearly a week and was prevented from attending Friday prayers at the historic Jamia Masjid in Srinagar on Friday, his office said. In a post on X, the Mirwaiz office said police personnel were deployed outside his residence in Nigeen and […]
SRINAGAR — Police in Bandipora have arrested two more persons in connection with an alleged prison-linked module of a banned organisation, which is under investigation for allegedly targeting women to propagate separatist ideology and propaganda, officials said on Friday. The module was earlier busted by Bandipora Police, and investigators are probing its alleged links, network […]
JAMMU — The Jammu and Kashmir government has geo-tagged around 30,000 chinar trees and created a digital database to strengthen their conservation and monitoring, officials said. Top officials said this at a high-level meeting, chaired by Minister for Forests, Ecology and Environment, Altaf Ahmad Wani, held to review the functioning of the Jammu and Kashmir […]
SRINAGAR — The counter-intelligence wing of Jammu and Kashmir Police on Friday carried out raids at multiple locations in the Valley in a case registered under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, officials said. The raids were conducted in Anantnag and Pulwama districts in south Kashmir in connection with an FIR registered under IPC and UAPA […]
SRINAGAR — Kashmir police chief Sujit Kumar on Thursday said security forces were prepared for all contingencies amid threats to peace from terror groups operating in the Union Territory. “Based on continuous intelligence inputs, our teams remain on high alert. The public have been supportive. While security measures cause some routine inconvenience, we try to […]
KULGAM — Police arrested three persons, including a husband-wife duo, and recovered around seven grams of heroin-like substance from a vehicle during naka checking on the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway in Kulgam district on Thursday, officials said. The vehicle, bearing registration number PB-01-B-2046, was intercepted near the North Portal of the Navyug Tunnel while travelling from […]
SRINAGAR — Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday visited the residence of Lal Chowk MLA Ahsan Pardesi to offer condolences on the demise of his father, Ghulam Qadir Pardesi, a former Member of the Legislative Council (MLC). During the visit, the Chief Minister paid rich tributes to the deceased for his dedicated public service and […]
SRINAGAR — In a major move to check unauthorised constructions, the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) has directed an immediate suspension of all ongoing construction activities across 35 wards of the city until building permissions and approved plans are verified. The directions have been issued through separate circulars by Enforcement Officers of the North/East, West and […]
ANANTNAG — Police in Anantnag arrested four alleged drug peddlers in four separate operations across the district and recovered around 11.86 kilograms of contraband substances, officials said on Thursday. In the first operation, Police Station Mattan conducted a search at the residential premises of Zakir Hussain Khan, a resident of Satrimaidan, Gopalpora, Mattan, following specific […]
SRINAGAR — Six-time National Conference (NC) MLA Mubarak Gul on Wednesday declined to make any statement on his differences with the party leadership over his exclusion from the council of ministers. Gul, a former Speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, had on October 27 set a November 4 deadline for the party to consider […]