SRINAGAR — Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Sunday said that he will hold an interaction with booth-level officers in Jammu and Kashmir’s Budgam district. “In the beautiful valleys of Jammu and Kashmir, especially in the Budgam (district), we will interact with the booth level officers. After interacting with the booth level officers, who are […]
JAMMU — Two notorious drug peddlers were detained under the PIT-NDPS Act in Samba and Reasi, while properties, including residential houses and bank accounts of two more peddlers, were attached in adjoining districts on Saturday, police said. The police also arrested seven drug peddlers, including a woman, along with heroin from different districts of the […]
JAMMU (KIMS) — The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has trapped a Senior Assistant of the Labour Department while allegedly accepting a bribe on behalf of an Assistant Executive Engineer (AEE) in Jammu. According to an ACB statement, FIR No. 04/2026 under Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 and Section 61(2) of the Bharatiya […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Surinder Choudhary on Saturday reiterated the NC-led government’s commitment to phased regularisation of all eligible ad-hoc and daily-wage employees. Addressing a gathering at Surankote in Poonch district, he said the government is also committed to equitable development, with special focus on remote and underserved regions like Pir […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Saturday said it has attached several movable and immovable properties belonging to a former Naazir in the office of the Deputy Commissioner Srinagar in connection with a disproportionate assets case. According to an ACB statement, the attached properties belong to Imtiyaz Ahmad Bhat, son of Late Ghulam […]
JAMMU (KIMS) — Jammu and Kashmir Police on Saturday said they arrested a couple wanted in a murder case registered in Uttarakhand in Katra area of Reasi district and handed them over to the concerned police after completing the required legal formalities. According to a police statement, Police Station Katra received information from Police Station […]
JAMMU — Two elderly persons were killed and four were injured after their vehicle veered off the road and plunged into a deep gorge in Doda district on Saturday, officials said. The incident took place near Basti village in Bhaderwah when the driver lost control of the vehicle at a blind curve, they said. The […]
JAMMU — AIIMS Jammu has achieved a major milestone in cancer care by successfully performing Jammu and Kashmir’s first-ever interstitial brachytherapy procedure on a 26-year-old woman diagnosed with Stage II vulvar cancer, the institute said. Vulvar cancer is a rare gynaecological malignancy, accounting for only four percent of all gynaecological cancers, and is particularly uncommon […]
SRINAGAR — Counter Intelligence Kashmir (CIK) on Saturday carried out raids at multiple locations in the valley in connection with an investigation into a case registered under the stringent UAPA, officials said. They said CIK carried out searches at five places in four districts — Srinagar, Ganderbal, Kupwara and Anantnag. The officials said the raids […]
JAMMU — Army troops apprehended a 26-year-old infiltrator, a resident of PoK, along the LoC in the Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Saturday. Mohammad Sajad was taken into custody after entering the Indian side from across the border through the Gulpur area of the Krishna Ghati sector on Friday, the officials […]