SRINAGAR — Private Schools Association of Jammu and Kashmir (PSAJK) today said that it is fully aware of the transportation crisis that has affected both schools and the parents at the onset of opening of schools. The Association said that the opening of educational institutes after three years has come up with a new set […]
SRINAGAR — A tourist from Uttar Pradesh died of a ‘suspected’ heart attack at a luxury hotel falling in the jurisdiction of central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Sunday, officials said An official said that 56-year-old Gayas Ud Din Ansari son of Jalal Ud Din from Uttar Pradesh fell unconscious at Golden Tulip in the jurisdiction […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir Police was lucky to get evidence from the scene of crime of the February 1 acid attack on a woman as someone had “inadvertently” cleaned the area with water, according to the charge sheet filed in the case. The victim, whose identity is not to be disclosed as per […]
BUDGAM — A mother-daughter duo was injured in a pressure cooker blast on Sunday morning in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. Officials sources said that mother-daughter duo was injured in a pressure blast at Futli Pora Pakharpora area of Budgam. The duo identified as Hajara Bano (55), wife of Wali Muhammad Laway and her daughter Sabnam […]
SRINAGAR — Cloudy weather with short spells of sunshine continued in J&K and Ladakh on Sunday as the Meteorological (MeT) department forecast moderate to heavy rain and snow in both the union territories during the next 24 hours. “A fresh Western Disturbance is activity over J&K and Ladakh. Widespread rain/snow is likely to occur during […]
SRINAGAR — The shopkeepers in Maisuma area of Srinagar on Saturday closed down their shops after a shopkeeper was allegedly beaten by the traffic police officials when they were removing the illegal car parking from the roadsides. A shopkeeper was allegedly thrashed when he tried to intervene after a customer’s vehicle was being fined for […]
JAMMU — Three years after she allegedly went missing from Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch, a young woman was “rescued” and her alleged abductor arrested from Dehradun in Uttarakhand, police said on Saturday. In 2019, a complaint had been lodged at the Mandi police station alleging that a 15-year-old girl was abducted by a local youth. […]
SRINAGAR — General officer Commanding (GoC) of army’s Srinagar-based 15 Corps Lieutenant General D P Pandey on Saturday said that Kashmir was more peaceful compared to past few years as important security parameters—local militant recruitment, stone pelting, strike calls are all time low. He, however, said while youth between the age-group of 20 to 25 […]
KARGIL — Thousands of people protested here on Saturday against the bombing of a Shia mosque in Pakistan that left 62 worshippers dead and nearly 200 others injured the previous day. A suicide bomber, belonging to the ISIS-Khorasan, blew himself up inside a mosque in Qissa Khwani bazaar in Peshawar, capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province on […]
JAMMU — After providing 130 industrial services online on a single-window clearance system, the Jammu and Kashmir administration intends to integrate at least another 160 services this year to benefit prospective investors, officials said on Saturday. Jammu and Kashmir was the first among the union territories to integrate its Industrial Development Scheme (IDS) with the […]