Jammu

Banihal-Sangaldan section of Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link to open on February 20

NEW DELHI — The Indian Railways will start train services on the Banihal-Khari-Sumber-Sangaldan section, a 48.1-kilometre-long significant segment of the country’s most ambitious Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link project, on February 20. “We will get a step closure to realise our dream to connect Srinagar with Kanyakumari,” a source in the railways told PTI. “The Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail […]

Jammu

CRS conducts inspection on Banihal-Sangaldan section of Kashmir rail project

JAMMU — Commissioner of Railways Safety D C Deshwal on Friday completed his two-day inspection of recently completed 48-km-long Banihal-Sangaldan section along the ambitious Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link (USBRL), officials said. Sangaldan railway station in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district falls between Banihal and Katra on the remaining 111-km stretch of the USBRL project, which on […]

Kashmir

Govt promotes IGP Jammu, CID to ADGP rank

SRINAGAR (KIMS) — The Home Department of Jammu and Kashmir Government on Monday ordered promotion of two Indian Police Service (IPS) Officers to the rank of Additional Director General of Police (ADGP). According to an order, Anand Jain, Inspector General of Police (IGP), Jammu Zone and Nitish Kumar, Inspector General of Police (IGP), Crime Investigation […]

Kashmir

Govt orders transfers and postings in Police Department, 16 officers transferred

SRINAGAR (KIMS) — The Home Department of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday ordered transfers and postings in Police Department. The Department has ordered transfers and postings of 16 Police officers in the interest of administration with immediate effect. According to an order, Anayat Ali Choudhary, IPS, awaiting posting upon repatriation from Union territory of Ladakh, […]

Kashmir

J&K HC ends ‘discrimination’ against PoJK refugees settled outside UT

SRINAGAR — In a historic judgement the J&K and Ladakh High Court has ordered an “end to the discrimination” against Pakistan occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) refugees of 1947 settled outside Jammu and Kashmir. Justice Rahul Bharti in his judgement called the discrimination against PoJK refugees “discretion engineered discrimination on the part of successive governments […]