SRINAGAR — Two journalists have been detained in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district by the Jammu and Kashmir police in the last week for “questioning”. Both continue to be in detention – one among them for the past five days. Salman Shah, 30, editor of an online weekly magazine – Kashmir First and 21-year-old Suhail Dar, a freelance […]
ANANTNAG — In continuation by taking an initiative to eradicate drug menace from the society, Army’s 19 Rashtriya Rifles organised free drug Kashmir campaign and Indian Army 19 Rashtriya Rifles Kokernag COB organised drug de addition seminar in collaboration with Government Degree College Kokernag in Anantnag district of south Kashmir on Wednesday. The aim of […]
SRINAGAR — Cyber Police Kashmir on Wednesday claimed to have busted a KYC (Know Your Customer) gang by arresting two men hailing from south Kashmir’s Anantnag district from a rented accommodation at New Theed Harwan area of Srinagar for defrauding people through fake calls and messages. A Cyber Police official identified the accused duo as […]
SRINAGAR — The Crime Branch Kashmir has arrested a Senior Assistant in Learned Advocate General J&K office in a fake recruitment scam. Crime Branch in a statement said it has arrested one accused Mohammad Yaqoob Bhat son of Ghulam Ahmad Bhat resident of Budgam in connection with case FIR No. 56 of 2021 U/S 420 […]
NEW DELHI — Voicing concern over the recent killing of civilians, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday said “everyone is feeling unsafe”, and asked the administration to give the people a sense of security cutting across religions. Pointing out that attacks in the Union Territory this year had claimed the lives […]
SRINAGAR — Anjuman Auqaf Jamia Masjid Srinagar Wednesday said that the mandatory congregational prayers will be offered at historic Jamia Masjid on coming Friday. According to a statement, Anjuman informed that while all mosques, shrines, imambaras including Dargah Hazratbal have opened for prayers in view of the ongoing holy month of Rabi-ul-Awwal and diminishing graph […]
SRINAGAR — A Srinagar-based photojournalist was detained in a mid-night raid from his residence in Dalgate area of the city last night. Mukhtar Zahoor, 27, works as a stringer with the BBC and has been published in Al Jazeera, The Caravan, Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal. As per his family, last night at around 12:30am, he […]
SRINAGAR — The employees who had left the Valley feeling unsafe after a Sikh school principal and Kashmiri Hindu teacher were killed last week by militants, said the administration was being “insensitive.” Jammu and Kashmir administration is calling workers back on duty and if they do not show up action will be taken as per […]
SRINAGAR — Exposing the underbelly of Jammu and Kashmir on economic indices, the newly created Union Territory has registered the highest unemployment rate of 21.6 percent among all states, UTs in India. According to the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) figures, J&K has a 21.6 percent unemployment rate, which is the worst among states/Union […]
SRINAGAR — As many as 300 students from Jammu and Kashmir, who have been selected to attend various higher education courses at the Mewar University in Chittorgarh, Rajasthan, were given a warm send-off by the Indian Army at a ceremony held at the Sher-i-Kashmir International Conference Centre (SKICC) in Srinagar on Tuesday. Lt Gen D.P. […]