Continuing its crackdown against Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI), the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday conducted raids at five locations in north Kashmir district of Bandipora in connection with a terror funding case. These raids come a day after the investigation agency conducted raids at over 56 locations in 14 districts of J&K – including all 10 […]
Jammu and Kashmir police tonight suspended Personnel Security Officer (SPO) of BJP sarpanch Ghulam Rasool Dar and his wife Jawahar Begum who were killed by Lashkher-e-Toiba (LeT) militants in Anantnag Monday afternoon. A police spokesman said although the deceased BJP leader was provided a secured accommodation at Snow cap hotel Kulgam and both stayed there […]
Reviews I-Day arrangements, winter preparedness of PDD BANDIPORA, AUGUST 09: Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, Baseer Ahmad Khan, on Monday conducted an extensive tour of Bandipora district to take stock of various ongoing development works with focus on winter preparedness of PDD, arrangements for 75th Independence Day, Covid mitigation efforts and disaster management. Advisor also met […]
Asks officers for expeditious disposal of cases under SMAS, SAKSHAM, BBBP, Ladli Beti schemes JAMMU, AUGUST 09: Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, Farooq Ahmad Khan, today chaired a high level meeting of Social Welfare Department to review the functioning of Social Welfare Department. Secretary, Social Welfare Department, Sheetal Nanda; Director General, Women and Child Development, Mir […]
By: Musaib Iqbal MK Srinagar The long wait for the bodies of their dear ones is turning painful now as the authorities have failed to retrieve bodies of 19 persons who went missing following a cloudburst at Honzar Dachan in Kishtwar district as rescuers continued the operation till date. The government has said that they […]
Srinagar: Unknown gunmen on Monday shot dead BJP leader and his wife at Lal Chowk Anantnag south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, officials said. They said the gunmen barged inside the rented accommodation of the BJP leader Ghulam Rasool Dar (Sarpanch) of Redwani Kulgam at Lal Chowk Anantnag and fired indiscriminately. Both Dar and his wife Jawahira […]
Budgam: Fire partially damaged Darul Uloom Syed Aali Balki at Pakherpora area of Central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Monday afternoon. An official said that fire broke out in the afternoon in Darul Uloom. He said that fire tenders reached the spot and doused the flames with the help of police and locals. “According to preliminary […]
Kishtwar: Police on Monday said that it has arrested two newly recruited militants of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen Outfit in Kishtwar district of Jammu. In a statement, the police that two youths namely Yasir Hussain son of Ghulam Rasool resident of Sounder Tehsil Dachhan District Kishtwar and Usman Qadir son of Ghulam Qadir resident of Tander Tehsil Dachhan […]
The global Covid-19 cases have reached 202.6 million-mark, while the deaths have surged past to more than 4.29 million, whereas vaccinations soared to over 4.33 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University. In the latest update on Monday morning, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) informed that the current global caseload, the death […]
Eleven of the 21 crew onboard container ship Rio De La Plata, currently at sea off the coast of New Zealand’s Tauranga, tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday. The Ministry of Health said in a statement that it is likely that at least some of the 11 crew are active cases of Covid-19 and further […]