Srinagar : Jammu and Kashmir Police on Monday claimed to have arrested five gamblers and seized stake money of Rs. 74,960 from their possession. The spokesman said acting on a specific information, a police party of Police Post Nehru Park raided a gambling site at Kohna Khan Dalgate and arrested 5 gamblers. “Stake money of […]
Jammu: Light Motor Vehicles were today allowed to move from both sides on the Srinagar-Jammu Highway after the road was cleared of a massive landslide which had forced suspension of traffic for the past two days, traffic police said. However, the movement of heavy vehicles was restricted to one-way from Srinagar to Jammu due to […]
Top military leaders in Myanmar, including the commander-in-chief, must be investigated and prosecuted for genocide in Rakhine state and crimes against humanity in other areas, according to a UN report released on Monday. The report — based on hundreds of interviews, research and analysis by a UN-mandated fact-finding mission — is the strongest condemnation by […]
Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik who took oath last week on Monday called on President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. Malik, who replaced N N Vohra, was sworn in as the governor of Jammu and Kashmir on August 23. This was his first visit to New Delhi […]
The court has held Major Leetul Gogoi accountable for “fraternising” with a local in spite of instructions to the contrary and “being away from the place of duty while in an operational area” Major Leetul Gogoi, who was detained by police in a Srinagar hotel after he was seen with a local woman in May, […]
Srinagar : Hurriyat Conference (M) Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has in a tweet said that a fresh case filed against Article 35 A has to do nothing with the case already listed for hearing with a bunch of petitions filed by various individuals and groups. Taking to micro blogging social networking website twitter, Mirwaiz Umar […]
Srinagar : A special police officer (SPO) has gone missing along with an AK-47 rifle from police station Shopian in south Kashmir on Saturday, a top police officer said. A police official said that Showkat Ahmad, a resident of Herman village, posted at police station Shopian fled with AK- 47 rifle of his colleague Mohammad […]
SRINAGAR : Governor Shri Satya Pal Malik has felicitated the people of the State on Raksha Bandhan and has expressed hope that this auspicious occasion would usher a new era of peace, amity, harmony, progress and prosperity in Jammu and Kashmir. In his message of greetings, Governor observed that Raksha Bandhan is a unique representation […]
SRINAGAR : Advisor to the Governor, Khurshid Ahmed Ganai today said that the State Government is committed for safety, welfare, and overall development of the children. “The State Government has taken various initiatives towards child welfare, which include introducing and implementing various welfare schemes through Social Welfare department,” Advisor said while addressing the 2nd Roundtable […]
Congress president Rahul Gandhi has described the 1984 anti-Sikh riots as a “very painful tragedy” and said he was “100 per cent” for the punishment for those involved in any violence against anybody. Nearly 3,000 Sikhs were killed in the riots in 1984 following the assassination of former prime minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh […]