SRINAGAR — The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has booked the former Deputy Mayor of Srinagar Municipal Corporation and Director Kehwa Group Sheikh Imran for multi-crore cheating of the Jammu and Kashmir Bank. Imran has been accused of misappropriating the funds provided as subsidy given for setting up a controlled atmosphere store or cold storage. […]
JAMMU — The Jammu Development Authority (JDA) has served a notice on senior BJP leader and former deputy chief minister Nirmal Singh asking him to demolish his illegally constructed house on the outskirts of the city within five days. Singh and his family moved into the palatial bungalow near the Army’s ammunition sub-depot at Ban […]
JAMMU — A suspended policeman and his former colleague, who were wanted in connection with last week’s shooting incident on the outskirts of Jammu, were arrested from Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, a police officer said. Three people, including a history-sheeter and his brother, were killed and another critically injured in a […]
SRINAGAR — The J&K and Ladakh High Court has asked government not to demand 9% token tax from the owners of the outside registered vehicles in Jammu and Kashmir. Hearing a contempt petition, a division bench of Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey and Justice Sanjay Dhar also granted three weeks more time to Commissioner/Secretary to Transport […]
SRINAGAR — A policeman on leave and a civilian were injured in a grenade blast at Aalimasjid Eidgah in central Kashmir’s Srinagar on Wednesday. Official sources told GNS that suspected militants hurled grenade near CRPF’s 161 battalion camp, injuring a policeman who was in civvies and one leave besides civilian. The civilian identified as Aijaz […]
SRINAGAR — PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday said that despite repressive measures taken in name of security people are being killed in Kashmir. “Security situation in J&K has deteriorated to an extent where not a week goes by when an innocent doesn’t lose his life. Unfortunate that despite repressive measures taken in name of […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir BJP president Ravinder Raina on Tuesday said the targeted killing of innocent civilians by militants in the valley is a conspiracy of Pakistan to disturb peace in the Union Territory. He said Pakistan is the biggest enemy of Kashmiri Muslims and Islam. Condemning the killing of a salesman, Mohammad Ibrahim […]
JAMMU — Four suspected persons were detained along with four gelatin sticks and some quantity of phosphorus sulphate from a forest area in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Tuesday. The suspects, including two brothers, were picked up by the troops of Rashtriya Rifles from Dhara top, four km from Bhaderwah town, […]
SRINAGAR — Within 24 hours after a policeman was killed in the Batamaloo area of Srinagar, a civilian working as a salesman at a shop owned by a Kashmiri Pandit was killed by suspected militants nearly six kilometers away in Bohri Kadal area of the capital city Srinagar when he boarded a private vehicle. The […]
SRINAGAR — The paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) on Tuesday said it will send five more companies to Jammu and Kashmir following a spate of targeted civilian killings in the union territory. The CRPF said it had earlier sent 25 companies to Jammu and Kashmir. “The CRPF is sending five additional companies to J&K […]