BUDGAM — Budgam Police on Friday arrested three timber smugglers and seized six logs of illicit timber alongwith three horses. A police spokesman in a statment said that acting upon a specific information, a naka was established at Chakarmarg Hardpanzoo. Police party of Police post Hardpanzoo intercepted three persons carrying illicit timber logs laden on […]
SRINAGAR — Five days after Ladakh administration ordered the issuing of Resident Certificates to residents of the Union Territory, the J&K Panchayat Conference—a body of elected panchayat members—has demanded the restoration of the Permanent Resident Certificate (PRC) system prevalent in Jammu and Kashmir before the Centre diluted Article 370 of the Constitution. “When the Resident […]
KULGAM — Body of a 19-year-old Bachelor of Arts (B.A) student was found under suspicious conditions in Buchroo village of South Kashmir’s Kulgam on Friday morning, officials said. An official told that a youth identified as Abdul Bari Mir (19) Son of Ajaz Ahmad Mir, a resident of Buchroo was found dead under mysterious conditions […]
SRINAGAR — The Journalist bodies of Kashmir have vehemently condemned the police raid against four journalists – Hilal Mir, Shah Abbas, Azhar Qadri and Showkat Motta. A joint statement issued by seven scribe bodies of Kashmir said that the raids by police and paramilitary forces carried out at the respective residences of these journalists is […]
SRINAGAR — In the wake of Taliban capturing power in Afghanistan, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday reviewed the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir. Shah’s meeting with top functionaries of the central government and the Union Territory administration came two days after the Taliban announced its interim government in Afghanistan. The home minister […]
SRINAGAR — Inspector General of Police Kashmir Vijay Kumar on Thursday asked journalists not to “interfere unnecessarily in investigation of case by spreading false narrative” even as he said four scribes being questioned by police would be arrested “after collection of solid evidences.” “During investigation of FIR 82/2020 Police Station Kothibagh, credible evidence was found […]
SRINAGAR — Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday said that Muslims are always expected to prove that they don’t stand for violence. In a series of tweets, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti said that her statement on the Taliban following Sharia law was deliberately distorted. “Not surprised that my […]
ANANTNAG — From past six months, Biochemistry Analyzer is defunct at Maternity and Child Care Hospital (MCCH) in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district. Biochemistry Analyzer is an instrument used to conduct vital tests of patients. MCCH is located at Sher Bagh Anantnag. In absence of the Biochemistry Analyzer, patients have to visit either Government Medical College […]
SRINAGAR — According to a pan-Kashmir cross-sectional sero-study which was conducted among general population and various subsets of population which include police personnel, healthcare workers, pregnant women by Government Medical College Srinagar in collaboration with Community Medicine departments of Sher-e Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), SKIMS Medical College Bemina, Government Medical College Anantnag and […]
HANDWARA — A two-year-old girl died from an accidental drowning in Handwara area of north Kashmir on Thursday, official sources said. They said the girl Aliya Jan daughter of Javid Ahmad Bhat of Tulbul Sopore was at maternal home when she slipped into a rivulet passing through the house at Hanga Mawar Handwara. The girl […]