NEW DELHI — A judicial tribunal of the Delhi High Court has confirmed the Centre’s ban on separatist group Muslim Conference Jammu and Kashmir (Bhat faction) and four factions of the Jammu and Kashmir People’s League (JKPL) for threatening India’s integrity by promoting, aiding and abetting the secession of Jammu and Kashmir through militancy. Two […]
NEW DELHI — The Patiala House Court on Wednesday issued a release order for Rashid Engineer, imposing the condition that he must not speak to the media about the ongoing terror funding case. This followed the interim bail granted to him on Tuesday, ahead of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections. Rashid Engineer has been […]
SRINAGAR — Son of Baramulla MP Rashid Engineer, Abrar expressed happiness after Delhi’s special NIA court granted interim bail to Rashid Engineer in connection with a terror funding case, adding that this is a proud and emotional moment for him. “This is both an emotional and proud moment,” Abrar said on Tuesday. He further stated, […]
JAMMU — A Border Security Force (BSF) personnel was injured when Pakistani troops resorted to unprovoked firing on Indian posts in violation of a ceasefire agreement along the border here on Wednesday, officials said. The BSF troops also retaliated but the casualties on the Pakistani side were not known immediately, they said. “At about 2.35 […]
SRINAGAR — The Enforcement Directorate has filed an application before a court in Srinagar seeking addition of two fresh criminal charges against former chief minister Farooq Abdullah and others in the JKCA money laundering case that was quashed by the Jammu and Kashmir High Court last month. Official sources said the agency recently submitted its […]
NEW DELHI — The Enforcement Directorate said on Tuesday that it has made a fresh arrest in an alleged narco-terrorism-linked money laundering case related to the “funding” of banned militant group Hizb-Ul-Mujahideen. Laddi Ram was taken into custody on Monday and was produced before a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Jammu […]
NEW DELHI — A Delhi court on Tuesday granted interim bail till October 2 to Lok Sabha MP Engineer Rashid in a militant funding case. Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid, defeated former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls in Baramulla. Additional Sessions Judge Chander Jit Singh granted the […]
SRINAGAR — Umer Farooq, the Mirwaiz of Kashmir and head of the Mutahida Majlis-E-Ulema, has expressed grave concern over the proposed amendments to the Waqf Act, saying they threatened the interests of the Muslim community and violated fundamental rights. In a two-page correspondence to Jagdambika Pal, who chairs the joint committee of Parliament examining the […]
SRINAGAR — Kashmir Inspector General of Police V K Birdi Tuesday directed security forces to take proactive measures and maintain close vigil on anti-national elements ahead of the first phase of the assembly polls on September 18 to ensure smooth and peaceful elections in the Valley. The police chief of Kashmir chaired a security and […]
BUDGAM — The body of a minor boy was found under mysterious conditions at Kechwari area of Central Kashmir’s Budgam district while the family has alleged murder. Official sources told the news agency Kashmir News Observer, that during the intervening night of Monday-Tuesday, a minor boy was found dead under mysterious conditions with some marks […]