SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Sunday condemned the alleged rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl in Budgam district, describing it as “shocking and deeply distressing”. Expressing grief over the tragedy, Abdullah condemned the heinous act and conveyed his heartfelt sympathies to the bereaved family. “May she find a place […]
JAMMU (KIMS) — Police, in a joint operation with the district administration on Saturday demolished three properties worth ₹4 crore belonging to notorious drug dealer in Jammu. According to a police statement, Navjot Singh alias Bablu, a resident of Indra Nagar area in Miran Sahib is a habitual offender with 15 FIRs registered against him […]
SRINAGAR — PDP president Mehbooba Mufti said on Saturday it is a “tragedy” that many prisoners from Jammu and Kashmir are in jails away from their families without a trial. Speaking to reporters, Mufti, who visited the residence of Lok Sabha MP Sheikh Abdul Rashid, alias Engineer Rashid, in north Kashmir’s Kupwara to pay condolences […]
SRINAGAR — Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, in his Friday sermon at the historic Jamia Masjid, called upon India and Pakistan “to talk to each other to find a way out to address concerns and democratic aspirations of people of Kashmir”. “As international commitments made over the Kashmir issue were never implemented and wars between the neighbouring […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir government has announced a series of expenditure-control measures aimed at ensuring fiscal discipline, imposing restrictions on official functions, foreign travel, vehicle purchases, creation of new posts, and hiring of office spaces. In an order issued by the Finance Department, all departments have been directed to implement the measures with […]
JAMMU — Police and civil administration said they demolished an alleged “illegal” commercial property of a drug peddler in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district as part of an ongoing crackdown against narcotics trafficking, officials said. The drive targeted shops allegedly built on government land near Dewal bridge along the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway in the Samroli […]
SRINAGAR — A political storm erupted in Jammu and Kashmir after the BJP circulated online ‘Omar Abdullah missing’ posters in a bid to mock the chief minister. The BJP’s J&K unit shared the ‘missing’ posters on its social media handles, seeking information about Abdullah and claiming that he has been “missing for the last ten […]
JAMMU — PDP leader Iltija Mufti on Thursday accused the NC govt of failing to protect the families affected by an anti-encroachment drive on forest land in Jammu and alleged that the ‘Yogi model’ of demolition was being implemented in Jammu and Kashmir. Police and Forest Department teams on Tuesday conducted an anti-encroachment drive in […]
SRINAGAR — Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Thursday claimed he was put under house arrest on the death anniversary of his father, Mohammad Farooq Shah, the former chief preacher who was assassinated in 1990. Mirwaiz was scheduled to visit the Eidgah graveyard to offer prayers on the 36th death anniversary of his father and the 24th […]
SRINAGAR — LPG consumers in the Kashmir valley are facing difficulties in getting their cylinders refilled as distributors are witnessing a huge rush of customers for the mandatory eKYC of their connections. While the distributors deal with the rush, many customers are facing issues with the self-eKYC after the government made it mandatory to procure […]