SRINAGAR — The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has provisionally attached the house of Hurriyat leader Shabir Ahmad Shah under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2002. An official told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that ED has provisionally attached an immovable property situated at Botshah Colony, Sanat Nagar, Srinagar in the name of Shabir […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has refused to entertain a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking to make Hindi as official language in the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, Bar and Bench reported. A bench of the High Court comprising Chief Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey and Justice Vinod […]
SRINAGAR — Weather was partly cloudy in J&K as the Meteorological (MeT) office said on Friday that partly cloudy sky with possibility of light rain is expected during the next 24 hours. “Partly cloudy sky with possibility of light rain is expected in J&K during the next 24 hours”, an official of the MeT department […]
JAMMU — A criminal involved in looting train passengers was detained on Thursday after being slapped with the Public Safety Act (PSA) here, officials said. A dossier was prepared by the railway police in Jammu incorporating detailed summary of all the unlawful activities carried by the criminal, Angoor Choudhary. Subsequently, the district magistrate slapped PSA […]
JAMMU — The Kashmiri Pandit (KP) employees serving in valley sat on a dharna here with placards carrying their demand, ‘only solution relocation’, as their strike entered 180th day Thursday. They said that they are not only protesting the “selective and targeted killings” in Kashmir but also against “ignoring their plight” by Lieutenant Governor administration. […]
POONCH — A 40-year-old woman and her 12-year-old daughter were killed and two male members of their family were injured after a landslide hit their house at Baffliaz area on DKG road in Poonch on Friday. Official sources told GNS that the landslide occurred during wee hours and swept away the house of one Mohammad […]
SRINAGAR — All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Thursday said that some mischief makers and agencies with vested interests are planting fake stories in some Jammu based newspapers about incarcerated APHC chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq meeting with a former deputy mayor of Srinagar and joining “mainstream politics.” These deliberate and malicious falsehoods peddled by vested interests […]
KULGAM — At least three non local labourers were injured in an LPG cylinder blast in Qaimoh area of South Kashmir’s Kulgam district, an official said. An official told news agency Kashmir News Observer that three non-local labourers working in new under construction Sub-district hospital in Qaimoh were injured in cylinder blast. “All of them […]
NEW DELHI — References to Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) in a China-Pakistan joint statement issued on Thursday during Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s visit to Beijing has been rejected by India. External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said that the references were “unwarranted”. Adding that India has consistently rejected such statements, Bagchi said that the […]
SRINAGAR — Two non-local labourers were injured in a militant attack at Bondialgam area of Anantnag district in South Kashmir, officials said on Thursday. Police said that two non-local labourers, one from Bihar and another from Nepal who were working at SAPS School in Bondialgam area of the district were injured after militants fired upon […]