BUDGAM — A ‘mentally unsound’ teenage girl was spotted today sitting on the railway track in the Nadigam area of Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. The Railway Police removed her from the track and handed her over to the family. Imtiyaz Ahmed Bhat, the uncle of the girl told news agency Kashmir News Trust that she […]
KULGAM — A policeman posted at District Police Lines Kulgam died of cardiac arrest on Monday. Sources told Kashmir News Trust that the cop was performing his duty when he collapsed and died on the spot. Sources added that the cop died of cardiac arrest. He has been identified as Bilal Ahmed, a resident of […]
SRINAGAR — Government on Monday ordered transfer of 13 JKAS officers in the interest of administration with immediate effect. According to an order issued by the government, Tariq Hussain Ganai, JKAS, Director, Rural Sanitation, J&K, has been transferred and posted as Director, Hospitality and Protocol, J&K, against an available vacancy. Rakesh Kumar Srangal, JKAS, Director, […]
SRINAGAR — Police on Monday issued summons to two journalists, Fahad Ahmad Shah and Majid Hairdari in connection with case registered following a gunfight in Pulwama in which officials said that four militants were killed. A case a FIR (18/2022) under section 307 IPCV, 7/25 IA Act, and sections 16, 18,20,38 ULA(P) A has been […]
SRINAGAR — Amid forecast for light rain and snowfall, night temperatures recorded a rise in Kashmir Valley on Monday. A meteorological department official here told GNS that Srinagar, the summer capital of the J&K recorded a low of minus 1.6°C against last night’s minus 2.3°C on the previous night. While the ‘Chillai Kalan’, the 40-day […]
NEW DELHI — Trinamool Congress MP Santanu Sen has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the issue of Jammu and Kashmir being shown as a part of China and Pakistan on the site of the World Health Organisation (WHO). “On the site of ‘WHO COVID-19,’ there are two different colours on Jammu […]
SRINAGAR — On Saturday evening, Roohi Jan was in the kitchen preparing tea at her one storey home in Naira village of Pulwama district in south Kashmir when a few men had gathered outside. “My pregnant sister and I had no idea what was happening outside,” recalled Jan, while waiting on a road outside the […]
RAMBAN — One person was killed and three others were injured when a tempo vehicle they were travelling in was hit by a shooting stone near Cafeteria Mohr area in Ramban district at Srinagar-Jammu National Highway on Sunday, an official said. “Today at about 2 pm one tempo traveller bearing registration number (JK21A—1503) travelling from […]
SRINAGAR — Top security officials Sunday said that five militants were killed in twin encounters in past 12 hours—four in Naira, Pulwama district and one in Charar-e-Shareef area of Budgam district. They said among the four slain in Naira, Pulwama was the wanted Jaish-e-Muhammad outfit’s Kashmir chief for south Kashmir Zahid Manzoor Wani. Addressing a […]
QAZIGUND — A private bank Automated Teller Machine (ATM) carrying Rs 4.5 lakh was stolen in Qazigund area of South Kashmir’s Kulgam district on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, official sources said. Sources told news agency Kashmir News Trust that some miscreants barged into the HDFC Bank ATM located near Petrol Pump in […]