SRINAGAR — The Anti-graft body of Jammu & Kashmir Police has booked Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and a serving senior bureaucrat among seven people for allegedly encroaching Custodian land in convenience with revenue officials in summer capital Srinagar. According to an FIR copy accessed by Srinagar-based news gathering agency Kashmir Dot Com a preliminary enquiry of […]
SRINAGAR — People’s Conference leader Imran Ansari has been booked for allegedly manhandling a police officer and a polling official while voting was underway at a booth in the Baramulla district in the fifth phase of Lok Sabha polls on Monday, officials said. P K Pole, Chief Electoral Officer, Jammu and Kashmir, said he has […]
SRINAGAR — The BJP Srinagar unit held a protest on Tuesday against the administration of the Shopian district over the killing of former sarpanch Aijaz Ahmad Sheikh by militants in the South Kashmir district two days ago. Led by district BJP president Ashok Bhat, the party workers protested against the Shopian district administration at Jawahar […]
JAMMU — A special tribunal in Jammu has dismissed an appeal by a senior BJP leader’s wife against the demolition of her illegally constructed palatial bungalow here and imposed Rs 10 lakh as costs on her for “serious misconduct involving criminal contempt of court and perjury”. Former deputy chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Nirmal […]
JAMMU — A 45-year-old woman from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) was handed over to Pakistan Army along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, two days after she was detained after she inadvertently crossed to the Indian side, officials said. Naseem Fatma, a native of Sakhi Nath village in […]
NEW DELHI — Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Monday said the abrogation of Article 370 was a “political decision” and there was no need for it as 99 per cent of the laws of India were already operational in Kashmir. Sibal also said that he does not see assembly elections being held in Kashmir […]
SRINAGAR — In the wake of two militant attacks last week, Jammu and Kashmir chief secretary Atal Dulloo Monday chaired a high-level meeting of civil and police administration to review the security situation in the Union territory, an official spokesperson said. The meeting was taken in view of the ensuing tourist season and ongoing elections […]
LEH — Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk said on Monday a small clip from his recent interaction was “twisted” and “taken out of context” in a way to show that he was talking about Kashmir and giving an anti-national statement. “Twisting statements is not right. I have said nothing on Kashmir,” Wangchuk told PTI here, adding, […]
LEH — Over 68 per cent polling was recorded in Ladakh on Monday in the election to decide the fate of three candidates in the fray for the lone Lok Sabha seat in the Union territory, polling officials said here. They also said that the voter turnout in Kargil was 74 per cent and 62.50 […]
JAMMU — Thirty-two per cent of Kashmiri migrant voters exercised their franchise in the Baramulla parliamentary constituency where voting was held in the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha election on Monday. Officials said there was a marked increase in polling by migrants this time as compared to 2019 and 2014. “Thirty-two per cent polling […]