JAMMU (KIMS) — The Jammu and Kashmir Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Monday produced a charge-sheet against Mohd. Farooq, then Junior Assistant and dealing hand for Mid Day Meal (MDM) in the office of ZEO Manjakote, in connection with the alleged misappropriation of rice and cooking costs under the MDM scheme. The charge-sheet was produced before […]
JAMMU/SRINAGAR — MBBS and BDS interns across medical colleges in Jammu and Kashmir went on an indefinite strike on Monday, protesting a monthly stipend of just Rs 12,300 — around Rs 400 a day — and demanding it be raised to Rs 30,000. The protesting interns claimed that their stipend had remained unchanged for nearly […]
SRINAGAR — The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has quashed the preventive detention of an Anantnag resident under the Public Safety Act (PSA), terming the proceedings a “sham exercise” and a “gross abuse of preventive detention jurisdiction” after finding that the District Magistrate had already coordinated jail lodgement with prison authorities before […]
JAMMU — Probe into the rape and subsequent death of a 15-year-old girl in Kishtwar district has been handed over to the Crime Branch, officials said on Saturday. The teenager had been allegedly raped by her school teacher over several months. She died on August 20 during a pregnancy termination procedure. A Special Investigation Team […]
SRINAGAR — PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday urged J&K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha to hand over the case of the alleged rape and murder of a schoolgirl in Chatroo, Kishtwar, to the Crime Branch for a “fair, transparent and time-bound investigation.” In a post on X, Mufti said the incident was “not merely another […]
JAMMU — The train service between Budgam in central Kashmir and Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra (SVDK) in the Jammu division resumed on Saturday after being suspended for nearly two months due to the Amarnath Yatra, bringing relief to commuters, an official said. The train service from both sides had been suspended from June 29, […]
JAMMU — A nurse at Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar was arrested in connection with the alleged rape of a 15-year-old tribal girl by a school teacher last week, taking the total number of people held in the case to six, an official said on Saturday. Sonika, a nurse at Kishtwar district hospital, was apprehended on […]
JAMMU — A drone suspected to be from Pakistan was spotted hovering over forward areas along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, prompting security forces to launch a search operation in the area early Saturday, officials said. The drone was noticed at Balakote area’s Behrooti village in Mendhar sector late […]
SRINAGAR — Kashmir’s chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday said the Nepal tragedy should serve as a warning, and called for urgent protection of the valley’s “fragile ecology” by creating a balance between development and environmental preservation. Addressing the Friday congregation at the historic Jamia Masjid here, Farooq said the devastation being witnessed in […]
ANANTNAG (KIMS) — Jammu and Kashmir Police has registered a case Anantnag district after a man allegedly cheated another of ₹8.25 lakh on the pretext of securing him a government job and facilitating permission for installation of tents at Pahalgam during the Shri Amarnath Ji Yatra. According to a police statement, Police Post Khanabal received […]