BRUSSELS (BELGIUM) — Jammu and Kashmir Workers Party President, Mir Junaid, briefed over 12 EU Parliamentarians on the empowering of Grassroots Democracy in Kashmir and the crucial road map for development that is being undertaken by the government. The Parliamentarians included MEPs Salvatore de Meo, MEP Regimenti, MEP Caterina Chinnici. There was also a representative […]
SRINAGAR — Police on Friday said that it have busted a human trafficking hang by arresting three person in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. In a handout, the police said that acting upon an information of human trafficking being operational in the district, a police team of police station Budgam raided a particular place in village […]
GANDERBAL — Police on Friday said that it arrested an accused driver involved in hit and run case, in which a man was killed, in Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district. In a statement, police said that the accused driver, who was involved in hit and run case at Derand wherein a bike rider Manzoor Ahmad Kaloo […]
JAMMU — A massive search operation was carried out in and around the railway station here on Friday after 18 detonators were found in a drain near it, officials said. The railway police on Thursday evening foiled a plan of terrorists to possibly trigger an IED blast by recovering 18 detonators and explosive material packed […]
SRINAGAR — The Meteorological (MeT) department on Friday forecast dry weather during the next 24 hours in Jammu and Kashmir. “Dry weather with hazy morning is likely to continue in J&K during the next 24 hours”, an official of the MeT department said. Meanwhile, Srinagar recorded 3.5 degrees Celsius, Pahalgam minus 0.9 degree and Gulmarg […]
JAMMU — Fifteen houses were gutted in a massive fire in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Friday. No one was injured in the blaze that broke out in Chag-Gandhari area of Paddar tehsil on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday, they said. Army and police personnel along with the locals […]
SRINAGAR — In the fourth phase, a local Non-Government Organization (NGO), ‘We the helping hands’ have organized the marriage ceremony of 31 couples in Srinagar on Thursday, achieving the target of solemnizing the marriage of 150 couples this year. Talking to the news agency Kashmir News Observer, Umar Wani, Chairman of the NGO, said that […]
SRINAGAR — Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD), an infectious viral disease among cattle continues to affect more cattle worrying farmers in Kashmir. Farmers told news agency Kashmir News Observer that though the mortality rate of LSD is not so high, animals infected with the disease are unable to produce enough milk even after they are cured, […]
PATTAN — A 48-year-old man was crushed to death by a running train in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district, officials said here on Thursday. An official told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that a man died on the spot after a train from Banihal to Baramulla hit him near the Hamray section. They identified him […]
NEW DELHI — Union Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurated a 2-day ‘Chintan Shivir’ to discuss problems relating to internal security at Surajkund, Haryana, on Thursday. Addressing the inaugural session, Shah said that there has been a 34 per cent reduction in militant activities in Jammu and Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370. At the […]