ANANTNAG — Amid ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, an outbreak of infectious disease, known as Foot-and-mouth Disease (FMD) has left a few cattle dead in Bijbehara area of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Wednesday. The FMD erupted among the domestic cattle in Sirhama village of Bijbehara, an official said. An official told that two cows and a […]
SRINAGAR — Police have constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the claim made by a non-local woman that she was ‘gang raped’ by three persons in Ram Bagh area of Srinagar city. A non-local woman (name withheld) emerged in Press Enclave Srinagar claiming that she was sexually assaulted by three persons on the […]
BUDGAM — Police have registered a case against Brick Kiln employees after a non-local labour accused them of raping a woman and illegally confining them in a room for whole night. The alleged incident has occurred in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. Police sources told news agency Kashmir News Trust that a family from Uttar Pradesh […]
KUPWARA — Police have booked at least eight persons under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for sloganeering at the funeral of a youth who was killed in an accident recently in Kupwara district of north Kashmir. Officials on Wednesday told that four of them have been already arrested under Section 13 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) […]
UNITED NATIONS — General Assembly President Volkan Bozkir is “saddened” by India’s reaction to his statements on Kashmir, according to his Deputy Spokesperson Amy Quantrill, who has asserted that they were taken out of context. She said at a news briefing on Tuesday, “The President was saddened to see a press statement from the Indian […]
SRINAGAR — The University of Kashmir has increased the examination fees amid the prevailing Covid-19 pandemic, alleged the students. Students alleged that instead of considering a reduction in the examination fee for the current semesters, the University has started charging Rs 650 extra. The last date for submission of examination fee for all PG courses […]
ANANTNAG — Contributing to the fight against coronavirus, social activist Sheikh Imran of Bharatiya Janata Party distributed free ration kits and Stationary items among the poor and needy nomads in Schicen Anantnag. Addressing the media persons after free ration distribution, Imraan said that amidst the Corona virus 77 Ration Kits and Stationary items distributed among […]
SRINAGAR — Police have arrested an accused on charges of rape here in Kashmir capital Srinagar. The associate of the accused is still at large while a hunt has been launched to nab him. Sources said that a Bakarwal family from Chenab Valley registered a compliant at police station Saddar Srinagar that two youth one […]
BARAMULLA — Police seized two trucks loaded with rice meant for black marketing in North Kashmir’s Pattan area of district Baramulla. The loaded trucks were supposed to unload rice in Kupwara but the drivers were on way to Srinagar to get the rice sold in black. Both the truck drivers reside in North Kashmir’s Kupwara […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Tuesday filed a chargesheet against PDP leader Waheed Parra in a case related to the alleged nexus between politicians and militant groups in the union territory, officials said here. The chargesheet was filed under various sections of the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act before a designated court, […]