KULGAM — An encounter breaks out between government forces and militants at Brayihard Kathpora village of Yaripora in Kulgam district of South Kashmir on Wednesday. Reports said a joint team of government forces including Indian Army, J&K Police and CRPF had launched Cordon-and-Search-Operation (CASO) at Brayihard Kathpora village of Yaripora in Kulgam distric following the […]
SRINAGAR — Banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chief Yasin Malik has fallen ill and has been shifted to a hospital from Delhi’s Tihar Jail where he was on a hunger strike for past many days. Reliable sources told Srinagar based news agency Kashmir Dot Com that Yasin Malik has been shifted to Ram […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Police has recovered a Sculpture from a brick kiln in Gadusathu area in central Kashmir’s Budgam district after getting specific reports. Sources told news agency Kashmir Dot Com that the Sculpture was recovered from the brick kiln B-11 during the search by a team of police station Budgam. If sources […]
SRINAGAR — Amarnath Yatra has been suspended between Panchtarni and the cave due to inclement weather, officials said on Tuesday. Heavy rainfall occurred in the mountains around the holy cave shrine this afternoon due to which water level in a nearby stream also rose, they said. The pilgrims were rushed back to Panchtarni camp, the […]
NEW DELHI — The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday said it has filed a chargesheet against former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah and some others in connection with its money laundering probe linked to alleged irregularities in the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA). The prosecution complaint was filed on June 4 before a […]
NEW DELHI — Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik, who is on a hunger strike in Tihar Jail here for five days, is being given intravenous fluids and his health is being regularly monitored by doctors, officials said on Tuesday. Malik (56), the head of the banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), began his indefinite […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir government on Tuesday ordered transfer of ten police officers in the interest of administration with immediate effect. An order in this regard has been issued by J&K’s Home Department. Umesh Kumar, IPS, awaiting posting in the Police Headquarters has been posted as SO to ADGP, Railways, J&K, against an […]
GANDERBAL — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Secretary, Arun Kumar Mehta on Tuesday said that to promote local economy, Manasbal festival was organised here and Manasbal will soon be among the popular tourist destinations in the Valley. Talking to reporters on the side-lines of the festival, Mehta said that Manasbal is not such a popular tourist […]
SRINAGAR — The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Tuesday said that no Kashmiri Pandit, working under the Prime Minister’s Development Package (PMDP), has resigned in the Kashmir Valley following the killing of a Kashmiri Pandit. In reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, MoS Home Nityanand Rai said that as per information provided […]
SRINAGAR — Weather remained generally cloudy in Jammu and Kashmir during the last 24 hours. However, the MeT department said on Tuesday that mainly dry weather is expected in the next 24 hours. “Mainly dry weather is expected in J&K during the next 24 hours,” an official of the MeT department said. Srinagar recorded 20.3 […]