JAMMU — A drone was recovered from an open field in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, officials said. The drone was found lying in an agricultural field near Devak by a resident of Chak Salaria, who spotted it while out on a morning run at 5:50 am, the officials said. They said […]
JAMMU — A Jammu court has issued a non-bailable warrant (NBW) against Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) chief Hafiz Saeed for his role in last year’s terror attack in Pahalgam’s Baisaran meadow. The warrant was issued at the request of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), which plans to declare the terrorist a proclaimed offender, people familiar with the […]
JAMMU — Amid the row over Ayodhya’s Ram Mandir donation theft, a court in Jammu and Kashmir has directed the J&K Crime Branch to produce records related to over Rs 550 crore worth of “fake silver” offerings at the Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine. The court issued the directions while hearing a plea seeking registration of […]
NEW DELHI — A Delhi court on Monday rejected the bail plea of the founder-editor of a Jammu-based news outlet, arrested by the ED in May for allegedly impersonating an “influential” PMO official and cheating people of over Rs 4 crore on the pretext of getting their work done. The court said Vijay Gupta “failed” […]
JAMMU — Authorities on Monday demolished the house of an alleged drug peddler and seized the property of another alleged narcotics trafficker in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district as part of an intensified crackdown on the drug trade. Officials said both actions, carried out in separate cases, were done in accordance with the relevant legal […]
SRINAGAR — The National Medical Commission (NMC) has granted permission to increase the annual MBBS intake at the Government Medical College Jammu by 50 seats, an official spokesperson said on Monday. The announcement was made by the Health and Medical Education Department. The Medical Assessment and Rating Board of the NMC has issued the Letter […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Jammu and Kashmir Police on Monday said they detained an alleged Over Ground Worker (OGW) after the Facial Recognition System (FRS) generated an alert at the Nunwan X-Ray Point during the ongoing Shri Amarnath Ji Yatra. According to a police statement, the individual was identified as Faisal Muzaffar, son of Muzaffar Ahmad, […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Jammu and Kashmir Police on Monday said they attached immovable properties worth over ₹1.23 crore belonging to an absconding alleged drug peddler in Sopore area of Baramulla district under the provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act. According to a police statement, the action was taken under the ongoing […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir Police’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW) on Monday arrested a fraudster who is wanted in 11 cases of cheating and forgery. “The EOW Kashmir, of the Crime Branch, J&K, has successfully executed a long-pending arrest warrant against Abdul Majeed Mir,” a spokesperson of the EOW said. He said the arrest […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday slammed the Lt Governor administration for blocking access to the Martyrs’ Graveyard in the old city, saying those who are stopping people from paying homage are “guests for few days”, but the martyrs are immortal. “Those who did not allow us to go to […]