JAMMU – Police on Wednesday claimed to have arrested a truck driver hailing from south Kashmir’s Anantnag district with Rs 30 lakh unaccounted cash in Gangyal area of Jammu division. A police statement said that Mohammed Iqbal, son of Abdul Aziz, a resident of Shadi Wala Verinag in Anantnag driving the truck bearing registration number […]
KULGAM – The Jammu and Kashmir police on Wednesday said that they arrested an accused, allegedly involved in raping a minor girl, within an hour after receiving a complaint in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district. In a statement, a spokesperson said that a girl (Name withheld) aged about 14 years along with her father approached the […]
Sheikh Nadeem ANANTNAG – Sub-District Hospital Achabal Anantnag is a hope for multiple villages of Anantnag district. The hospital was without a X-ray facility and patients were facing the difficulties to get X-ray’s at Private diagnostics Centers. DDC Member Samina Hussain along with Senior National Conference Leader Hashim Hussain visited the Hospital on Monday and […]
SRINAGAR – Counter Intelligence Kashmir (CIK) apprehended two persons from Srinagar’s Batamaloo area on Tuesday morning and recovered brown sugar like substance from them. Sources told that a team from CIK led by Inspector Sajad Ahmed after receiving specific input, intercepted a load carrier (JK02BG 2430) and after frisking the two persons on board including […]
PULWAMA – A non-local inmate at Sub-Jail Pulwama who had been arrested in connection with a drug case died in Pulwama hospital. Official sources told that an accused felt unconscious at Sub-Jail Pulwama. He was shifted to District Hospital Pulwama where doctors declared him dead. The deceased identified as Harpinder Singh son of Harbajan Singh, […]
SRINAGAR – Men allegedly employed by Hyderabad based infrastructure firm ‘Megha Engineering Infrastructure’ which is the executive agency for the construction of Zojila Tunnel were caught by a team of Irrigation and Flood Control Department when they were busy in extracting sand and boulders from Nallah Sindh near Nilgrath area of Sonmarg here in Central […]
SRINAGAR – The Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Monday decided to release jail inmates in the union territory on 90 days interim bail in view of the Supreme Court directions. A high-powered committee, headed by High Court Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey, took the decision to release all the jail inmates as per the directions […]
BUDGAM – Police have arrested four family members in connection with the death of a woman in Central Kashmir’s Charar-e-Sharif area of Budgam. Pertinently, during the sacred night of ‘Qadar’, a woman was found hanging in the premises of her husband’s home at Darwan Nowgam area of Charar-e-Sharif. Prima facie it seemed a case of […]
Palestinian-origin academic Edward Said is believed to have once said: ‘Kashmiris had land. Palestinians did not.’ While a young man from Jammu and Kashmir was in the US for higher studies some decades ago, he went to meet the world-renowned scholar of Palestinian origin, Edward Said. The latter asked him about the Kashmiri movement. When […]
BUDGAM – 3-year-old boy among two minors, who suddenly fell unconscious on Monday afternoon at a marriage ceremony in Brenjan area of Chadoora in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district, succumbed at SKIMS Soura, officials said here. Sources told that two minor boys earlier suddenly fell unconscious and the duo was immediately rushed to sub-district hospital Chadoora, […]