SRINAGAR (KIMS) — An encounter breaks out between security forces and militants at Adigam village in Devsar area of Kulgam district in South Kashmir on Saturday morning. Reports said, a joint team of security forces including Indian Army, J&K Police and CRPF had launched Cordon-and-Search-Operation (CASO) at Adigam village in Kulgam district following the inputs […]
JAMMU — National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday launched searches at multiple places in Rajouri and Reasi districts as part of its investigation into the deadly militant attack in June on a bus carrying pilgrims who were returning from Shiv Khori temple, officials said. NIA is conducting searches at seven locations in Jammu and Kashmir, […]
JAMMU — Two labourers died and four others were rescued on Thursday after a group of construction workers came under heap of soil while they were working in a large pit dug for building a bridge in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district, officials said. The six labourers were involved in the construction work on the […]
SRINAGAR — The Income Tax Department will hold a special drive in the first week of October to address the grievances of taxpayers in Jammu and Kashmir. “The Income Tax Department, Srinagar, has announced a special drive to address the grievances of taxpayers in Jammu and Kashmir. The initiative is aimed at providing a platform […]
NEW DELHI — President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday visited the Siachen base camp and told soldiers posted at the world’s highest battlefield that all citizens salute their bravery. Addressing the troops, she said in difficult situations like heavy snowfall and minus 50 degrees temperature, they present extraordinary examples of sacrifice and tolerance in protecting the […]
JAMMU — Nearly 40 per cent of migrant Kashmiri Pandits in Jammu cast their ballots in the second phase of polling for the Assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, officials said. The polling was held at 24 stations set up in Jammu, Delhi and Udhampur. “Nearly 40 per cent polling was registered at […]
BHUJ, GUJARAT — A 36-year-old man from Jammu and Kashmir was detained by police after he arrived in Khavda village in Gujarat’s Kutch district, intending to cross the border into Pakistan to meet a woman he connected with online, officials said on Wednesday. Imtiyaz Sheikh, a resident of Bandipora district, travelled to Kutch with the […]
REASI — Jammu and Kashmir’s Pir Panjal region witnessed an overwhelming response from first-time voters who enthusiastically participated in the second phase of assembly elections on Wednesday, aspiring for better job opportunities, skill education, development and good governance in the Union territory. For them, it was not just a responsibility to exercise their right to […]
SRINAGAR — The members of a foreign delegation who are here on Wednesday to observe the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir expressed satisfaction over the conduct of polls, with some of them saying the process looks comparable to how it happens in their own countries. Jammu and Kashmir is voting in the second phase […]
SRINAGAR — The election campaign of all the major political parties in Jammu and Kashmir revolved around the revocation and restoration of the erstwhile state’s special status but women voters are more worried about the rising electricity bill amounts. An elderly woman, waiting for her turn to vote at a polling station in the heart […]