BUDGAM — Authorities Wednesday sealed a brick kiln for operating within the radius of 8 kilometers of Srinagar Airport. Sources told news agency Kashmir News Trust that a team led by Naib Tehsildar sealed a brick kiln at Madbal village of Chadoora. As per norms no brick kiln can operate within a radius of 10 […]
SRINAGAR — Saying goodbye to the 149-year-old official practice of rotating the seat of governance between the twin capitals of Srinagar and Jammu on six-monthly basis called the ‘Darbar Move’, J&K government on Wednesday cancelled the practice and the accommodations given to employees who would shuttle between the twin capitals. Lt. Governor Manoj Sinha had […]
SRINAGAR — Police have registered a case against unknown persons for resorting to stone-throwing in Narbal area of Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. Narbal area witnessed stone-throwing after the killing of a LeT commander Abrar Nabi in Maloora HMT area of Srinagar outskirts. Police sources told KNT that an FIR vide number 145/2021 under sections 147, […]
GANDERBAL — Authorities seized at least 5 fruit-laden Tata-mobile vehicles whose drivers were allowed to ply from Srinagar to Kargil despite one way traffic from the opposite direction. Sources said that Assistant Regional Transport Officer Ganderbal seized these vehicles at Zero Point Zojila at 12 midnight after he came to know that staffers posted at […]
SRINAGAR — After all parties meet in New Delhi the Delimitation Commission under the chairmanship of Justice (Retd) Ranjana Prakash Desai on Wednesday said that the members have decided to visit the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir from July 06 to 09 July 2021. Reliable sources told that the commission will meet leaders of […]
SRINAGAR — A Gujarat Court acquitted a Kashmiri youth after 11 years of his detention. Bashir Ahmed Baba, from Rainawari area of Kashmir capital Srinagar, who was arrested in Gujarat for allegedly being a member of Hizbul Mujahideen, was acquitted today after more than 11 years. His brother Nazir Ahmed told Kashmir News Trust that […]
BARAMULLA — A 24-year-old youth was found hanging inside his room in Vagila village of Wagoora in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Wednesday morning. An official told the youth was found dead in inside his home in the morning today. He said that the family informed that when they went inside the room he was […]
Sheikh Nadeem ANANTNAG — A stray dog attacked and injured at least one dozen people in Palpora , Ganiepora, Ara-Koshipora and Damhal Villages of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district in last two days. Sources told that a stray dog appeared and attacked dozen of people in a single day in different villages and have spread a […]
QAZIGUND — A 25-year-old girl allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself at her home in Qazigund area of South Kashmir Kulgam district on Tuesday evening. A police official told that a girl (name withheld) from Bumthan locality of Qazigund allegedly hanged herself at her home following which her family members took her to a nearby […]
SRINAGAR — Prof. Saifuddin Soz, former Union Minister Tuesday said that senior political leader Muzafar Hussain Beigh is utterly wrong in claiming that Article 370 is gone forever. In a statement to news agency Kashmir News Trust, Soz said that his attention has been drawn to Muzaffar Baig’s statement that Article 370 of the Constitution […]