SRINAGAR — A massive fire has broken out in SDPO office in Tangmarg in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Reports said that the double-storied building, also housing office of DySP Operations, was caught in flames of some unascertained cause some time before. A Fire and Emergency Department official told GNS that men and machinery from at […]
SRINAGAR — Light snow in higher reaches and rain occurred in plains of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh on Wednesday as the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecast partly to generally cloudy weather during the next 24 hours. An official of the IMD told IANS: “Weather is expected to remain partly to generally cloudy in J&K […]
JAMMU — Over 50 youths were detained Tuesday after they blocked the vital Tawi bridge in the heart of the city, demanding the early conduct of written examination for the posts of Jammu and Kashmir Police Border Battalion advertised in 2019, officials said. The protesters were also angry over the recent re-advertisement of the posts […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Police on Tuesday claimed to have busted two militant modules of Jaish-e-Muhammad in Anantnag by arresting 11 accused persons including three hybrid militants. Police said that incriminating materials including arms and ammunition have been recovered from their possession. A police spokesman in a statement said that based on credible inputs […]
SRINAGAR — National Investigation Agency (NIA) Tuesday said that it has arrested a resident from Budgam district of Central Kashmir in connection with a case regarding Al-Qaeda’s plans of triggering an IED blast in Lucknow city. In a statement on February 7, 2022, NIA arrested one accused person namely Tawheed Ahmad Shah S/o Bashir Ahmad […]
SRINAGAR — Under the much-hyped smart metering project, the Kashmir Power Distribution Corporation Limited (KPDCL) is all set to install almost 58,000 smart meters in the first phase across Srinagar. 15000 smart meters will be installed in Srinagar in the ongoing month (February). Sources within the department said that over 11400 smart meters have already […]
SRINAGAR — In the annual regular results of 12th standard for Kashmir division, female students did not give any space to the male candidates to secure the top positions in all four major streams. One of the toppers, Arusa Parvaiz bagged the top position from the Faculty of Science. Arusa, the student of Kashmir Harvard […]
NEW DELHI — There is no registered body by the name of ‘Kashmir Press Club’ in Jammu and Kashmir as it has failed to register itself under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, the government said. Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai also said in the Lok Sabha the Estates Department of the UT […]
SRINAGAR — Facebook and Instagram have blocked the handles of Chinar Corps, the Indian Army’s strategically located formation in the Kashmir valley, for over a week now and have not responded to the official communication in this regard, officials said on Tuesday. The pages on Facebook and Instagram were created to negate the lies and […]
POONCH — A 16-year-old boy was injured after an apparently old landmine exploded in Poonch district on Tuesday. Official sources told GNS that Mohammad Yasar (16) son of Lal Din of Noorkote Mohalla Pothi was injured due to suddenly old land mine blast. They said he suffered injuries in left foot and was shifted to […]