ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s parliament on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution urging India to implement the UN Security Council resolutions to allow Kashmiris to exercise their democratic right to determine their future through a fair and impartial plebiscite under the UN auspices. Minister for Kashmir Affairs Amir Muqam moved the resolution that reaffirmed Pakistan’s “unwavering moral, […]
NEW DELHI — Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Tuesday that the Jammu and Kashmir administration should ensure full implementation of the three new criminal laws in the Union Territory by April. Chairing a review meeting here on the implementation of the three new criminal laws in Jammu and Kashmir, in the presence of […]
SRINAGAR — A court in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday sentenced a faith healer to 14 years of rigorous imprisonment for committing unnatural sexual offences with two minor children during their religious lessons. Dismissing defense counsel’s assertion about four-year delay in registering of FIR, Chief Judicial Magistrate Sopore Mir Wajahat reasoned it with a poem. […]
SRINAGAR — Kashmir has witnessed a dry winter this year with the months of January and February recording a precipitation deficit of around 80 per cent, which has raised the possibility of drought in the valley this summer, the MeT department officials said. Several water bodies are flowing below the zero level mark at many […]
SRINAGAR — A court in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday convicted a faith healer of committing unnatural offences with children who used to visit him for religious lessons. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sopore, Mir Wajahat issued the order of conviction against Aijaz Ahmad Sheikh on charges under section 377 (unnatural offences) of the Ranbir Penal Code […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir unit president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Sat Sharma on Monday in consultations with Tarun Chugh, National General Secretary, BJP & Prabhari J&K-UT, Ashok Kaul, General Secretary Organisation, and Sunil Sharma, Leader of Opposition in Assembly and Kashmir Prabhari, has nominated presidents for ten districts. According to a party […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Jammu and Kashmir Police on Monday solved two burglary cases by arresting three accused persons involved in the commission of crime in Srinagar. Police Post Hazratbal received a written complaint from an individual namely Junaid Maqbool Mir son of Mohammed Maqbool Mir resident of Litter Pulwama stating there in that on 13/02/2024, […]
JAMMU — Senior CPI(M) leader M Y Tarigami on Monday said all secular forces should unite to press for restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir as he lashed out at the BJP for allegedly misleading the country by false propaganda on Article 370 that granted special status to the region and was revoked in […]
SRINAGAR — A trial court in Ganderbal district of Jammu and Kashmir has sentenced a man to 27 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping and abducting a minor. The court convicted Mohammad Saleem Taploo for offences under section 4 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) and section 363 of the Ranbir […]
SRINAGAR — The Meteorological department Srinagar has said that Jammu and Kashmir is set to receive light to heavy rainfall and snowfall as fresh western disturbance is approaching. The disturbances are expected to cause widespread precipitation across the Union Territory. The weather is expected to remain mostly dry today with no significant rainfall predicted. However, […]