JAMMU — After successfully conducting the Assembly elections, the government is now preparing to hold municipal and panchayat elections in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) by the end of this year, according to highly placed sources. In a strategic move, security forces and paramilitary personnel deployed to ensure the peaceful conduct of the Assembly elections will […]
PULWAMA — Construction has commenced on a 50-bedded Critical Care Block (CCB) in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. This project is a part of the Emergency Response and Health Preparedness Package (ECRP) and was virtually inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in February 2024. The new facility being constructed is located adjacent to the existing District […]
JAMMU — The Kashmiri Pandits registered a voter turnout of over 30 per cent in the third and final phase of the elections in Jammu and Kashmir. Spread across 16 assembly segments in three districts of North Kashmir, the Kashmiri Pandits cast their votes at 24 specially designated polling booths in Jammu, Udhampur and Delhi-NCR. […]
SRINAGAR — Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has filed a petition in the Jammu and Kashmir High Court challenging his “house arrest”, the separatist amalgam said on Wednesday. It said the court is scheduled to hear the petition on Friday. While the Hurriyat has claimed that its chairman has been under house detention for […]
BUDGAM — The protests broke out in Jammu and Kashmir’s Budgam district on Wednesday against the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon, officials said. The protests were held in Magam market area and Budgam town of the central Kashmir district on the fourth day of mourning of Nasrallah. Some market places were shut […]
BANDIPORA — Situated on the banks of Wular Lake, Kanyari village in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Sunday stayed away from the polls to protest against the lack of development by the successive regimes. The village, located in the Sumbal division, is part of the Bandipora constituency following delimitation. A day before the scheduled polls […]
JAMMU — 75 Year-old former Minister and BJP candidate Sayed Mushtaq Bukhari expired on Wednesday in Pamrote Surankote area of Poonch district, an official said. Officials said that BJP Candidate for Surankote Constituency Sayed Mushtaq Bukhari died this morning at home. Meanwhile, Senior PDP Leader and Candidate Mendhar Constituency Advocate Nadeem Rafiq Hussain Khan and […]
JAMMU — Long denied the right to vote, members of the Valmiki community exercised their franchise for the first time in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections on Tuesday and termed it as a “historic moment”. The Valmikis were originally brought to J&K in 1957 from Punjab’s Gurdaspur district for sanitation work by the state […]
SRINAGAR — Following the retirement of R R Swain, highly decorated IPS officer Nalin Prabhat took over as the Director General of Jammu and Kashmir Police on Monday. Prabhat, whose appointment was announced by the Ministry of Home Affairs in August, received the baton from Swain during a simple ceremony at the police headquarters here. […]
SRINAGAR — Director General of Police Rashmi Ranjan Swain, the 1991 batch IPS officer, visited the martyrs’ memorial at Pratap Park on Monday to pay homage to security forces who sacrificed their lives in the fight against insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir. “A martyr’s memorial for a police officer is a place of worship, especially […]