SRINAGAR — Senior Journalist Majid Hyderi said that he was detained and harassed by Jammu and Kashmir Police in Srinagar on Wednesday. Majid Hyderi in a Facebook post wrote, “I was summoned, questioned, detained and harassed by Jammu and Kashmir Police for no fault of mine on Oct 13, 2021 at CARGO, the detention center […]
SRINAGAR — The body of an elderly lady from Abi Guzar area of Srinagar, who was missing from last three days, was retrieved from river Jhelum in Nawa Kadal on Thursday. Official sources told that a 70-year-old lady identified as Rehti, wife of Abdul Aziz Kaloo of Abi Guzar went missing on Monday (October 11) […]
SRINAGAR — High Court of J&K and Ladakh Wednesday quashed a criminal complaint filed by PDP senior leader and former minister Naeem Akhtar against the Editor-in-Chief of Republic TV, Arnab Goswami. Scrapping the criminal proceeding against Goswami, a bench of Justice Sanjay Dhar said issuing a process in a criminal complaint against an accused is […]
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 […]