JAMMU — The Jammu Division of Northern Railway on Wednesday said it will operate a Joint Parcel Product-Rapid Cargo Service (JPP-RCS) train between Adarsh Nagar in New Delhi and Budgam in central Kashmir from April 17, offering relief to traders in the Valley, particularly fruit growers and handicrafts merchants. The service will run regularly on […]
JAMMU — The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday said a major narcotics network with interstate and cross-border links was busted with the arrest of most-wanted drug kingpin Gulzar Ahmad alias Lau Gujjar along with several of his associates. Senior Superintendent of Police (Jammu) Joginder Singh said Gujjar had been supplying narcotics in bulk quantities […]
SRINAGAR — A man accused in a rape case registered in 1987 was arrested in Jammu and Kashmir’s Budgam district on Wednesday, nearly 39 years after he had been on the run, police said. The accused, identified as Bashir Ahmad Ganaie, a resident of Drer Kalipora in Shopian district and presently living in Kulgam, was […]
JAMMU — Kashmiri Pandits on Wednesday held protests in Jammu, demanding a two-fold increase in monthly relief from the existing ceiling of Rs 13,000 per family. They accused the authorities of failing to revise the assistance for the past eight years. Led by the community leader Ravinder Koul, scores of protestors gathered at the Press […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday inaugurated the ‘Know Your Artisan’ initiative aimed at promoting the region’s handicrafts and artistic heritage, under the ‘Soulful Kashmir’ campaign. He emphasised that artisans are the custodians of the region’s cultural identity, saying the programme aims to provide them direct market access, ensure fair […]
SRINAGAR — Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday unveiled the renovated War Memorial at the Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry (JAKLI) centre here. The renovated war memorial of the JAKLI Regiment at Rangreth near the Old Airfield Srinagar was unveiled on the regiment’s 78th Raising Day. “I am thankful to the regiment for giving me […]
SRINAGAR — Kashmir’s chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Wednesday demanded strict punishment for the suspected cow vigilantes who allegedly chased and assaulted a man ferrying a cow and two calves in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district. “The poison of cow vigilantism is now being spread to Jammu and Kashmir, resulting in the death of […]
SRINAGAR — Faced with an inaugural ribbon in saffron, white and green stripes, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday refused to cut it and instead untied it and handed it back to the organisers with the instruction that it should be kept with respect. Abdullah was inaugurating the ‘Know Your Artisans’ event […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Police on Wednesday said they have arrested five more persons in Sopore town of Baramulla district in connection with the disruption of a recent student protest at the Government Girls Higher Secondary School on Monday. According to police, the arrests were made during night-long raids as part of an ongoing crackdown against […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday visited the family of two brothers who drowned in the Jhelum River while bathing their sheep a day earlier. He visited Bijbehara in Anantnag to offer condolences to the family, according to an X post by the Office of the Chief Minister of Jammu […]