SRINAGAR — The Army has busted a terrorist hideout and recovered arms and ammunition in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Tuesday. Based on specific intelligence input, a search operation was launched by the Army in the general area of the Keran sector on Monday, the officials said. During the operation, security […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Monday said it has registered an FIR against five officials of the Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs (FCS&CA) Department and nine Fair Price Shop (FPS) dealers for their alleged involvement in the embezzlement and misappropriation of government food grains in Karnah area of Kupwara district. According […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday said it has filed a chargesheet against seven accused, including six public servants and a contractor, in an alleged corruption and embezzlement case involving government funds meant for developmental works in Kupwara district. According to an ACB statement, the chargesheet was filed before […]
SRINAGAR — A Pakistani national has been repatriated six days after crossing the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district, the Army said on Friday. The Pakistani national had inadvertently crossed over into India on June 12. “A Pakistani national, Asad Khan, a resident of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), who was apprehended in Simari […]
SRINAGAR — A 19-year-old youth from Pakistan Occupied Jammu and Kashmir was nabbed by villagers in the Karnah area of Kupwara district on Friday and handed over to authorities, officials said. Ashraf Khan, a resident of Muzaffarabad, was caught by villagers at Mari in Karnah area of Kupwara district after crossing the LoC, officials said. […]
SRINAGAR — Counter Intelligence Kashmir (CIK) unit of police on Wednesday carried out raids in several districts of the valley in a case related to terror activities, officials said. The officials said based on recent intelligence inputs, technical analysis and sustained investigation, they had identified eight locations in six districts where searches were conducted in […]
SRINAGAR — People’s Conference president Sajad Gani Lone has put under house arrest on the 24th death anniversary of his father, the party claimed on Thursday. Abdul Gani Lone was shot dead by terrorists on May 21, 2002, as he left a Hurriyat Conference rally held to pay tributes to Mirwaiz Moulvi Mohammad Farooq, who […]
KUPWARA/BIJNOR — A case each was filed in Uttar Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday in the alleged religious conversion of an 18-year-old barber in Kupwara district of the Union territory, officials said. According to a complaint by the father of the teenager, Krishna Kumar, his son Vishal had gone to work at a […]
SRINAGAR — The father of jailed Baramulla MP Sheikh Abdul Rashid, also known as Engineer Rashid, died at a hospital in Delhi on Monday. He was 85. “Haji Khazir Mohammad Sheikh, father of Member of Parliament, Baramulla, Engineer Rashid, is no more,” Awami Itihaad Party (AIP) chief spokesperson Inam Un Nabi said here. Nabi appealed […]
SRINAGAR — A police officer allegedly shot his wife dead in a fit of rage before trying to kill himself in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district, officials said on Saturday. A probationary sub-inspector (PSI) of Jammu and Kashmir Police, Deep Singh, posted at a special operations group (SOG) camp in Kandi area of the north […]