SRINAGAR — In a inspiring gesture Srinagar police Chief SSP Sandeep Chaudhary decided to pay Rs one lakh from his pocket to a 90-year- street food vendor who was robbed on Saturday evening in the old city of Srinagar. Abdul Rahman, a roadside channa seller, was thrashed by some bugglers at Bohri Kadal Srinagar on […]
SRINAGAR — Google has sought more details from the Jammu and Kashmir Police on its demand of records related to email exchanges of Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra, a close aide of PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti, in connection with his alleged links with Pakistan-based secessionist leaders and militants, officials said here on Sunday. According to officials, they had […]
RAMBAN — A man and his minor daughter were killed while his wife was injured after a truck rammed into their private car on Srinagar-Jammu national highway in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday. An official said that a truck heading towards Kashmir hit several vehicles, including a car and two passenger cabs […]
PULWAMA — In a classic act of communal harmony and amity, members of Muslim community Sunday performed last rites of an elderly deceased Pandit in Washbugh in south-Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Kanhaiya Lal, 80, as learnt by GNS, was putting up as a lone family member at Washbugh and died of prolonged illness on Saturday evening. […]
SRINAGAR — The Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir is gripped with drug addiction as a huge chunk of the population has become drug addicts. During the maiden meeting of the state-level committee of the narco coordination centre held on Friday under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary, Dr. Arun Kumar it was informed that as […]
SRINAGAR — A 32-year-old private school teacher allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself to death on Sunday in Khrew hamlet of pampore area in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. An official told that a youth (name with held) who was working as teacher in a local private school village allegedly ended his life by hanging self […]
SRINAGAR — Srinagar, the summer capital of J&K, recorded the first sub-zero night of the season while other parts of Kashmir valley continued to endure below freezing point temperature on Sunday. A meteorological department official said that mercury settled at minus 0.9°C against previous night’s 0.1°C °C. The temperature is below minus 2.1°C than the […]
JAMMU — In a major relief to senior BJP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister of the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state Dr Nirmal Singh, and his wife Mamta Singh, the Jammu and Kashmir Special Tribunal has kept in abeyance the November 8 order of the Jammu Development Authority asking them to demolish their “illegally” […]
JAMMU — Eleven people were apprehended for alleged stone pelting during an anti-encroachment drive in Reasi district on Saturday, officials said. Groups of people indulged in stone pelting soon after revenue officials accompanied by police personnel started the anti-encroachment drive in Gram Morh village, the officials said. They said the encroached prime land belonged to […]
SRINAGAR — Candidates who appeared for entrance exams of Jammu and Kashmir Legal Services Authority (JKLSA) have raised questions over the transparency of exams by the authority. The candidates who appeared in the exams for five posts of legal assistants said that in the name of exams it was a mockery and raised eyebrows over […]