JAMMU — Authorities on Monday demolished the house of an alleged drug peddler and seized the property of another alleged narcotics trafficker in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district as part of an intensified crackdown on the drug trade. Officials said both actions, carried out in separate cases, were done in accordance with the relevant legal […]
SRINAGAR — The National Medical Commission (NMC) has granted permission to increase the annual MBBS intake at the Government Medical College Jammu by 50 seats, an official spokesperson said on Monday. The announcement was made by the Health and Medical Education Department. The Medical Assessment and Rating Board of the NMC has issued the Letter […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Jammu and Kashmir Police on Monday said they detained an alleged Over Ground Worker (OGW) after the Facial Recognition System (FRS) generated an alert at the Nunwan X-Ray Point during the ongoing Shri Amarnath Ji Yatra. According to a police statement, the individual was identified as Faisal Muzaffar, son of Muzaffar Ahmad, […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Jammu and Kashmir Police on Monday said they attached immovable properties worth over ₹1.23 crore belonging to an absconding alleged drug peddler in Sopore area of Baramulla district under the provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act. According to a police statement, the action was taken under the ongoing […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir Police’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW) on Monday arrested a fraudster who is wanted in 11 cases of cheating and forgery. “The EOW Kashmir, of the Crime Branch, J&K, has successfully executed a long-pending arrest warrant against Abdul Majeed Mir,” a spokesperson of the EOW said. He said the arrest […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday slammed the Lt Governor administration for blocking access to the Martyrs’ Graveyard in the old city, saying those who are stopping people from paying homage are “guests for few days”, but the martyrs are immortal. “Those who did not allow us to go to […]
SRINAGAR — PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Monday accused the BJP of turning the issue of the ‘martyrs’ of 1931 into a communal matter, saying those killed by the Dogra Maharaja’s soldiers sacrificed their lives fighting the “autocratic rule”. The former chief minister paid tributes to the 22 protestors, who died on this day in […]
JAMMU — A court here has remanded three publishers to 10-day police custody in connection with the alleged publication and circulation of books allegedly glorifying separatist leaders, officials said on Monday. The Counter Intelligence Unit in Jammu arrested the three publishers on Sunday as part of its ongoing probe into the controversy over certain books […]
JAMMU — At least 18 people, most of them Amarnath pilgrims, were injured when two buses and a car collided outside a community kitchen on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway on Monday, officials said. The accident occurred outside the Chanderkote Langar point at around 7.20 am after one of the buses allegedly suffered a brake failure, […]
SRINAGAR — The lieutenant governor’s administration Monday imposed restrictions in several parts of Srinagar to prevent people from assembling at the martyrs’ graveyard in Naqshband Sahib area of the city. While the area within a one-kilometre radius of the graveyard was sealed off on Sunday, barricades were set up in the old city and some […]