Government on Thursday announced holidays for scheduled election days of DDC and Sarpanch bye-elections across Jammu and Kashmir. The order copy with KNS, reads that “Public holiday shall be observed in the respective Gram Panchayat(s)/Municipal Bodies on the day of Poll, on account of Elections to District Development Councils and Panchayats/Municipal Bodies Bye-elections 2020 .” […]
The BJP on Thursday released its election manifesto for the forthcoming District Development Council (DDC) polls, promising to provide 70,000 jobs with 100 per cent reservation to locals besides ensuring private sector employment, industry-friendly policy and a clean, transparent and accountable administration in Jammu and Kashmir. Claiming that the “stone-pelting era” is over as the […]
PDP youth leader Waheed Para was remanded to 15 days of National Investigation Agency (NIA) custody on Friday following his arrest earlier this week for allegedly conspiring with Hizbul Mujahideen militant to get their support during the 2019 parliamentary elections. Para was taken to Jammu and produced before a designated NIA court in a case […]
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) recently arrested PDP youth leader Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra, after he was questioned for several days at New Delhi regarding his connections with Hizbul Mujahideen and with the suspended DySP Devender Singh. PDP has not only questioned the timing of his arrest as he got the summons from NIA in the evening […]
Srinagar : Two army personnel were killed along the Line of Control (LoC) in Suderbani area o Rajouri, officials said here on Friday. “Pakistan Army resorted to unprovoked cease fire violation on the Line of Control (LoC) in Sunderbani Sector of District Rajouri on 27 November,” Lt Col Devender Anand, army’s Jammu based spokesman was […]
SRINAGAR: Peoples Democratic Party chief and former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti was on Friday put under house arrest, her daughter Iltija Mufti said here.
Jammu and Kashmir reported five more COVID-19 related deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the fatality count to 1668, officials said on Thursday. Among the fatalities, three were reported from Kashmir and two from the Jammu region. The victims include a 55-year-old woman from Noorbagh Baramulla besides two persons from Srinagar—a 63-year-old man from […]
The government on Thursday extended ban on high speed 3G and 4G internet services till December 11 in all but two districts of J-K, citing apprehensions regarding disruptions to “extensive campaigning by the contesting candidates” in ensuing local body polls. “With the announcement of elections to the District Development Council constituencies and by-elections to fill […]
SRINAGAR: Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha on Thursday released two Special covers on the themes- Kangri and Kehwa of the Postal Department here at the Raj Bhavan for promoting the cultural facets of Jammu and Kashmir. The Lt Governor congratulated all the officers of the Postal Department from J&K UT for coming out with these two […]
SRINAGAR: A junior commissioner officer (JCO) of army was killed and a civilian injured in firing and mortar shelling by Pakistan army along Line of Control in Poonch district, officials said on Thursday.