NEW DELHI — A Delhi court on Monday remanded Kashmiri human rights activist Khurram Parvez, who was arrested last year in an alleged terror funding case, to NIA custody till February 25 along with two other accused persons in the case. Special NIA Judge Parveen Singh, also allowed the National Investigation Agency (NIA) the custody […]
SRINAGAR — Ahead of reopening of schools in Kashmir division, the authorities on Monday said that the private schools of Jammu and Kashmir shall charge annual fee only on a pro-rata basis that too after re-opening of schools. Top officials informed, “The private schools in Jammu and Kashmir can only charge the annual fee on […]
KUPWARA — Where did the missing 7-year-old Talib Hussain Khan, a resident of Awoora village of the frontier Kupwara district go? This is what the worried family and common people of Awoora are asking these days as the minor went missing on February 15 and so far all efforts to trace him have failed. As […]
SRINAGAR — Police on Monday said to have arrested a Jash-e-Mohammad militant alongwith a pistol in Handwara area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district. “Today on 21.02.2022 upon a specific input regarding the movement of militant in Rajwar area, police along with 21 RR, and 92 Bn CRPF established a joint Naka at sultanpora Bridge at […]
SRINAGAR — Concerned over the rising incidence of drug abuse among the youth in the District, the Deputy Commissioner Srinagar, Mohammad Aijaz Asad Monday chaired a meeting here at Meeting Hall of DC Office Complex convened to review the drug abuse scenario and measures to be taken to curb the menace. Senior Superintendent of Police, […]
SRINAGAR — A tribal boy from Mulnar Harwan in Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar has cracked the National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) 2022 exam and made his family and community proud. A tribal boy, Tufail Ahmad got his education from Mission School New Theed Harwan Srinagar till class 8 before moving to Government Higher Secondary School, […]
JAMMU — The Chief Secretary, Dr Arun Kumar Mehta today urged the forest department to replenish the denuded forest cover, increase plantation outside forest areas and repair the neglected water bodies using both traditional ecological knowledge and modern practices in convergence with the MGNREGA to kickstart a virtuous cycle of good soil health, increased land […]
SRINAGAR — Continuing its efforts to eradicate the menace of drugs from the society, Police have arrested 10 drug peddlers across Kashmir valley and recovered psychotropic/contraband substances from their possession. Besides two notorious drug peddlers have been detained under preventive detention under PIT NDPS Act in Kulgam. In Sopore, a police party of Police Post […]
POONCH — The bush fire that broke out in the intervening night of Sunday-Monday has engulfed many areas along the Line of Control in Poonch district. Reports said that LoC areas of Mendhar and Mankote sectors of Mendhar sub division are under forest fire, which started in the intervening night of Sunday and Monday and […]
JAMMU — Students of lower classes thronged their schools in most parts of Jammu province early Monday to attend offline classes after a gap of nearly two years, a week after Jammu and Kashmir administration announced phased opening of educational institutions amid declining trend of COVID-19 cases. However, the schools in Kashmir and winter zones […]