NEW DELHI — The Centre on Thursday directed the Jammu and Kashmir administration to seize all assets and freeze bank accounts and finances belonging to the pro-Pakistan separatist amalgam Tehreek-e-Hurriyat and Muslim League Jammu Kashmir headed by separatist Masarat Alam. Both the organisations were recently banned by the government. Tehreek-e-Hurriyat was founded by late separatist […]
SRINAGAR — National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah did not appear before the Enforcement Directorate on Thursday for questioning in a money laundering case, official sources said. The 86-year-old politician was called by the central agency at its Srinagar office in connection with an ED investigation into alleged irregularities in the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket […]
SRINAGAR — Two persons, including a security personnel of PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti, were injured on Thursday as she had a narrow escape in a road accident at Sangam in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district, officials said. The vehicle of the former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister collided with a civilian car at Sangam, a […]
SRINAGAR — Panchayat and municipal elections in Jammu and Kashmir are ”extremely unlikely” to take place before the upcoming Lok Sabha polls as the Centre is yet to amend the law for extending reservation to Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in local bodies, a senior official said. Although the Administrative Council headed by Lieutenant Governor Manoj […]
JAMMU — A day after the five-year term of Panchayats ended, the Jammu and Kashmir authorities on Wednesday appointed block development officers as administrators for running the affairs of the local bodies, an official said. The term of 4,291 Panchayats and 310 Block Development Councils ended on January 9 and conferring financial and administrative powers […]
SRINAGAR — Petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a review of its judgment, which upheld the validity of the Union government’s 2019 decision to abrogate Article 370 of the Constitution, which conferred the special status of Jammu and Kashmir. Doctor Hussain, president of the J&K People’s Movement, and Muzaffar Shah, president of […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — While continuing its crackdown on drug peddlers, the immovable properties worth lakhs of two drug peddlers has been attached in Pulwama district of South Kashmir, the Jammu and Kashmir Police said on Tuesday. The properties that were attached include a double-storied, residential house valuing approximately Rs. 20,97,291/- belonging to a notorious drug […]
JAMMU — Three people were arrested in connection with a recent firing here, leading to the seizure of two pistols, police said on Tuesday. An information was received at Chinore police post about firing by two groups on the eve of New Year at Kamal Nagar in Bantalab area on the outskirts of Jammu. A […]
JAMMU — The NIA on Tuesday filed a supplementary charge sheet against three militant operatives including a Pakistani national of ‘The Resistance Front’ – an offshoot of proscribed Lashkar-Taiba (LeT) – for conspiring to unleash militant attacks in Jammu and Kashmir, an official said. The charge sheet was filed against Habibullah Malik alias ‘Sajid Jutt’, […]
JAMMU — The State Election Commission in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday announced that a special campaign for the annual summary revision of panchayat electoral rolls will be launched on January 15. The campaign aims to include eligible individuals, particularly those who attained the age of 18 by January 1, 2024, in the electoral rolls. […]