JAMMU — The Jammu and Kashmir Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Wednesday registered a case against former managing director of J&K Cooperative Housing Corporation (JKCHC) Bharat Bhushan Sharma and five revenue officials for illegal allotment of official land here, an official said. The case was filed following a probe into allegations that JKCHC purchased 392 kanal […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Police Station Bemina On 17th February 2025 received an information through reliable sources that an unidentified male dead body was lying in flood spill channel near Darul-uloom, Bemina. Upon receipt of this information, police team of PS Bemina reached on the spot alongwith FSL Mobile unit of DPL Srinagar and Crime photographer […]
RAJOURI — Thirteen more people, who were lodged in an isolation centre owing to mysterious deaths in their remote village, returned home in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, officials said. According to officials, with the return of these 13 people, all the 395 people lodged in three different isolation centres in Rajouri […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday said he has raised the issue of ragging of a Kashmiri MBBS student at a college in Karnataka with CM Siddaramaiah and was assured of necessary action. A second-year MBBS student from Kashmir studying at Al Ameen College in Karnataka has alleged that he […]
JAMMU — Heroin weighing more than 500 gm along with Rs 5.14 lakh were seized from the house of an arrested drug peddler in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Wednesday, police said. The seizure was made from the house of Jaswinder Kumar alias Sonu at Lamberi in Nowshera sector, a police officer said. Kumar, […]
KATHUA — A six-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by a superintendent of police was constituted Wednesday to probe the recent murder of two men in a remote village in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. Bodies of Roshan Lal, 45, and Shamsher, 37, were retrieved from the banks of a stream in […]
RAJOURI — A 40-year-old man climbed a mobile tower and threatened to commit suicide in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Wednesday, officials said. He was rescued in a joint operation by police and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), ending an over six-hour-long drama in Thanamandi town, some 25 km from Rajouri district headquarters, the […]
SRINAGAR — High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh on Wednesday quashed the detention order of journalist Majid Hyderi under the Public Safety Act (PSA). Justice V K Chatterjee quashed the detention of Hyderi under PSA, advocate Mohammad Yousuf Bhat, counsel for the journalist, told PTI. Hyderi was arrested in September, 2023 on charges […]
BANIHAL — Seven houses were gutted in a fire that broke out in a remote village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district, officials said on Wednesday. The fire broke out in a house at Syedpora hamlet of Chamalwas in Banihal area during the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday and spread to adjoining houses, they […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir is staring at a water crisis this year due to a massive deficit in rainfall, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said on Wednesday, calling for a more proactive approach and collective efforts towards water management and conservation. Kashmir has witnessed a dry winter this year with an 80 per cent deficit […]