SRINAGAR — The Government of India (GoI) is set to grant land ownership rights to West Pakistan refugees (WPR) in Jammu and Kashmir. The exercise to provide rights was started after Government of India abrogated the special status of Jammu and Kashmir in August 2019. Through the exercise, ownership rights will be granted to the […]
SRINAGAR — Shifting of prisoners from Jammu and Kashmir to outside the Union Territory is a purely administrative exercise undertaken due to overcrowding of jails, Director General Prisons, H K Lohia, said here on Saturday. Lohia was speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a function at Central Jail Srinagar. “It (shifting of prisoners) is […]
SRINAGAR — Muttahida Majlis-e-Ulema (MMU), an amalgam of several religious organisations in Jammu and Kashmir, Saturday condemned the booking of clerics under the Public Safety Act by the union territory administration. “During the last two days, arresting more than half a dozen religious scholars and preachers of Kashmir and booking them under PSA is condemnable,” […]
BANDIPORA — Bandipora police on Saturday said that they have solved the case of the killing of migrant labourer by arresting three militants in Sadunara area of Hajin in North Kashmir’s Bandipora district. Senior Supritendent of Police Bandipora, Mohammad Zahid while addressing a press conference said that on intervening night of 11-12 August, a migrant […]
SRINAGAR — An elderly man drowned to death in the Dal Lake in Central Kashmir’s Srinagar district on Saturday, officials said here. An official told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that the man identified as Ali Mohammad Dar of Abi-Nowpora locality of Khanyar drowned in the lake this morning. He said that soon after […]
SRINAGAR — Advisor to Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor, RR Bhatnagar on Saturday said that blood donation camps under Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav are being organised across the Union Territory so as to ensure no body dies due to unavailability of blood. While talking to reporters after inaugurating a blood donation camp at SMHS Srinagar, […]
KULGAM — A 50-year-old pedestrian was killed after he was hit by an unknown vehicle in Qaimoh area of South Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Saturday. An official told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that a vehicle hit one pedestrian identified as Ajaz Ahmad Malla (50) of Turak Tachloo on Srinagar-Jammu national highway near his […]
SRINAGAR — The Meteorological (MeT) department on Saturday forecast light rain in Jammu and Kashmir during the next 24 hours. “Light rain is likely to occur at many places in J&K during the next 24 hours”, an official of the MeT department said. Meanwhile, Srinagar registered 16.2 degrees Celsius, Pahalgam 9.1 and Gulmarg 8.5 degrees […]
SRINAGAR — Police in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district on Saturday arrested Sarjan Barkati, a religious preacher, three days after two other clerics were apprehended under the Public Safety Act (PSA). Barkati’s family members told the media that he was arrested Saturday morning and they were told that he has been booked under the PSA. […]
GANDERBAL — Jammu and Kashmir police on Friday refuted the reports of kidnapping of a minor child by some unknown non-locals in Yanihama locality of Lar in Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district. In a statement, a spokesperson said that some media groups have circulated news on social media platforms that some unknown non locals tried to […]