JAMMU — Counter infiltration measures have been put in place along the borders to ensure that militants don’t infiltrate and disturb the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, a top BSF officer said on Tuesday. Inspector General of Border Security Force (BSF), Jammu frontier, D K Boora was speaking to reporters in Bhaderwah area of […]
SRINAGAR — The 2011 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru’s elder brother Ajaz Ahmad Guru will contest the assembly elections as an independent from the Sopore assembly segment. Ajaz Guru, who took voluntary retirement from the animal husbandry department in 2014, is currently working as a contractor and will submit his form either on Tuesday or […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir Police have registered a First Information Report (FIR) after a female Flying Officer (Fg Offr) alleged rape, mental harassment, and continuous stalking by a Wing Commander of the Air Force Station in Srinagar. The FIR has been lodged against Wing Commander PK Sehrawat at the Police Station Budgam under […]
SHOPIAN [Sheikh Nadeem] (KIMS) — General Observer Jeevan Babu K conducted a comprehensive meeting with the Returning Officer (RO) and Nodal Officers today at the Mini Secretariat to review preparations for the upcoming Assembly elections in the 36-Zainapora Assembly Constituency. The meeting was attended by various constituency and district nodal officers responsible for election-related activities. […]
JAMMU — A special drive to plant one lakh saplings under ‘green election initiative’ commenced here on Monday with Chief Electoral Officer Pandurang K Pole directed officers to plant more than 100 plants in the premises of polling stations. Jammu and Kashmir is scheduled to go to assembly polls in three phases on September 18, […]
JAMMU — Ahead of legislative assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir, security measures have been increased in the Rajouri region of the union territory to create a safe and fear-free environment for voters to cast their votes. As per the Senior Superintendent of Police of Rajouri, Randeep Kumar, the Jammu and Kashmir police, the army […]
JAMMU (KIMS) — At least two militants were killed after Indian Army foiled an infiltration bid along the Line of Control (LoC) in Nowshera Sector of Rajouri district Jammu and Kashmir, Army said on Monday. Indian Army’s Jammu based White Knight Corps in a post on X said, “An anti-infiltration operation was launched by Indian […]
JAMMU — As the polling dates for the maiden Assembly polls after abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir draws near, several organisations of the Kashmiri Pandit community has decided to refrain from the electoral process in the Union Territory over “persistent denial of their genocide”. The decision to abstain from the polling was […]
JAMMU — A government employee and a village-level official were suspended for allegedly violating the model code of conduct in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir, an official said on Sunday. District Election Officer, Kishtwar, Rajesh Kumar Shavan ordered action pending inquiry against Adil Irshad, groundsman in Zonal Education Planning Office, Paddar, and ‘lambardar’ Vikram […]
JAMMU — Two teenage boys were killed and four injured in a collision between a car and a motorcycle in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district, officials said on Sunday. The driver of the car, which was ferrying a group of students, lost control and hit a tree and a boulder before hitting the motorcycle approaching […]