UDHAMPUR — One person was killed and fourteen others injured when a mini-bus they were travelling in skidded off the road and fell into roadside area in Udhampur district on Monday. The bus (JK14C-5286) hit a tree adjacent to the roadside parapet and otherwise it would have rolled down into the gorge and number of […]
KUPWARA — A school bus and at least 100 apple boxes were gutted in a fire incident in Haril Mawar area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district last night, official sources said on Monday. They said that the bus (JK09-9791) of New Millennium Public School Handwara, parked on a roadside open area in Darbal village of […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu & Kashmir Government has appointed advocate Mohsin Qadri and advocate Monika Kohli as additional advocate general. According to orders issued by J&K department, advocate Mohsin Qadri has been appointed as AAG in the Srinagar wing of J&K High Court and advocate Monika Kohli in the Jammu wing of J&K High Court. […]
SRINAGAR — A Kashmiri journalist was arrested by the J&K Police after he was accused of rape, extortion and trafficking. Police said that a local journalist operating in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, Nadeem Nadu was arrested for interrogation after he was accused by a university teacher of rape, extortion, intimidation and trafficking. Police said that […]
SRINAGAR — The Meteorological (MeT) department on Monday forecast mainly dry weather in Jammu and Kashmir during the next 24 hours. “Weather is likely to remain dry in J&K during the next 24 hours”, an official of the MeT department said. Meanwhile, Srinagar recorded 9.6 degrees Celsius, Pahalgam 4.9 degrees and Gulmarg 4.6 degrees as […]
DUBAI — A UAE-based business conglomerate, which has more than 50 supermarkets in the GCC countries, is showcasing Kashmiri apples in its stores, giving a boost to the export of the superior quality apples from India to the international market. The flavoursome premium apples native to Kashmir are considered one of the best quality apples […]
JAMMU — J&K Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbagh Singh Sunday said that in the recent two back to back explosions in Udhampur district sticky bombs fitted with timers were used and that person involved in the act is a local who was an active militant in 2005, arrested and then released. The DGP said […]
SRINAGAR — A policeman was killed while as CRPF personnel got injured in a militant attack at Pinglena village in Pulwama district on Sunday. Reports said, militants fired upon joint naka party of CRPF and Police at Pinglena village in Pulwama, leaving them injured. The said that both the injured were shifted to hospital for […]
SRINAGAR — A local militant, affiliated with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant outfit was killed in an encounter that broke out between government forces and militants at Baskushan village in Imamsahib area of Shopian district in South Kashmir on Sunday. Reports said a joint team of government forces including Indian Army, J&K Police and CRPF had launched […]
SRINAGAR — The higher reaches of popular ski-resort Gulmarg in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district received the season’s first snowfall on Sunday while weather remained overcast in the plains. The Affarwat hills in Gulmarg received snowfall much to the delight of the locals. In the rest of the union territory, the weather was mainly dry during […]