Srinagar : Governor Satya Pal Malik has expressed grief over the sad demise of Sh. SAS Qadri, former bureaucrat, who served as Divisional Commissioner Kashmir from the year 1968-71. In a condolence message Governor has prayed for peace to the departed soul and strength to the bereaved family in its hour of grief.
The Joint resistance leadership (JRL) on Wednesday appealed for a shutdown in Kashmir on October 8 to protest against the commencement of municipal and Panchayat elections in the state. A statement said that the JRL leaders have asked people to observe complete shutdown across Jammu and Kashmir on 8th October to protest the commencement of […]
New Delhi : The Centre has extended the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act in three districts of Arunachal Pradesh and its eight police station areas bordering Assam by another six months, in view of continuing activities of banned insurgent groups of the Northeast. According to a notification issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs, Tirap, […]
Srinagar : The state government on Wednesday appointed Atul Kumar Goel as Incharge Deputy Inspector General (DIG) North Kashmir Range, relieving V K Birdi of the additional charges. According to an order under number 1347-Home of 2018, dated 03-10-2018, “In the interest of the administration, Atul Kumar Goel, IPS, (JK:2004), awaiting orders of posting in […]
Srinagar : Police on Wednesday arrested a drug peddler and recovered a huge quantity of poppy straw from his possession in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. The spokesman said that acting on specific information, a police party arrested a drug peddler at Lassipora area, and 96 kilograms of poppy straw was recovered from his possession, besides, […]
Not a single candidate has filed nomination papers for 177 municipal wards out of a total 624 in the Kashmir Valley, while 215 wards will return their representative unopposed. The filing of nomination papers for the four-phase municipal polls ended on Tuesday. Voting is scheduled for October 8, 10, 13 and 16. Given the situation […]
Chairman Hurriyat conference (M) Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Wednesday expressed anguish over the arrest of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chief Muhammad Yasin Malik yesterday. While condemning Yasin Malik’s arrest, Mirwaiz said no intimation can stop the pro-freedom leadership from speaking truth and serving the cause of Jammu and Kashmir. Taking to his widely followed […]
SOPORE — A 30-year-old man was abducted from his shop by unknown gunmen in north Kashmir’s Sopore village on Wednesday. Reports said that the masked gunmen barged inside Shop of Tawseef Ahemd Ganie son of Afzal Ahmad Ganie at Younisu Sopore this afternoon and abducted him. SSP Sopore Javid Iqbal while confirming the incident and […]
Srinagar based army spokesman was quoted by few news agencies saying that on evening of Saturday an infiltration attempt was repulsed. He said that pakistani troops were giving cover to infiltrators but claimed that heavy firing from this side failed this fresh attempt by militants to cross over from Tanghdar sector of Kupwara.
Many news agencies have quoted police sources saying that in the wee hours of Sunday militants attacked police station of shopian and seriously injured one cop.Reports said that militants managed to escape from the area with rifle of injured police constable. Hospital sources said that injured jawan identified as Sakib Mir was seriously injured and […]