SRINAGAR : The Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), J&K, ShaleenKabra today said the polling timing for the 1st Phase of Municipal Polls-2018, scheduled to be held on 8 October 2018, shall be from 7.00 am to 4.00 pm.
Kaithal :A 16-year-old girl has alleged that she and her mother were raped by an assistant sub-inspector rank police official in a village here last month following which police booked 18 people, including seven policemen in the case. The victim told senior officials the main accused who was a ASI rank police official raped them […]
As part of bi-annual Darbar move, the Civil Secretariat, seat of Jammu and Kashmir government, along with other offices will close here at the end of this month and reopen in the winter capital Jammu next month. An order issued here by the General Administration Department (GAD) said: “The offices, as indicated at Annexures ‘ […]
With unrelenting increase in fuel prices, the government on Thursday decided to effect a cut in the prices of petrol and diesel by Rs 2.50 per litre. Finance Minsiter Arun Jaitley announced at a press conference that the cut will be effected through slashing of excise duty to the tune of Rs 1.50 per litre, […]
Police on Thursday claimed to have busted an over-ground worker module of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen in Lolab area of northern district Kupwara. The spokesman said that acting on specific input, Kupwara police detained two persons identified as Shakir Ahmad Wani son of Mohammad Ramzan Wani and Ghulam Mustafa Sheikh son of Abdul Ahad Sheikh, both residents of […]
Srinagar : Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik has said that India has made mistakes while handling Kashmir and in the process, alienated itself. In an interview to Indian Express, he said his priority is to “create an environment of trust” in which the Centre can initiate talks with mainstream parties and even the […]
Srinagar : A complete shutdown is being observed in Tral area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district against the slapping of Public Safety Act (PSA) on a local shopkeeper. All the shops and business establishments are shut in the area while as a thin movement of traffic is visible on the roads. Confined in a Jammu […]
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, […]