New Delhi: The upcoming foundation stone-laying ceremony of the Ram temple in Ayodhya was the focus of many channels Monday prime time. the first anniversary of the move to abrogate Article 370 in Jammu & Kashmir also got a look in — when channels could tear themselves away from the probe into Sushant Singh Rajput’s death. […]
New Delhi: Any government official in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K), including senior IAS and IPS officers, can now be dismissed from service without an inquiry if found to be engaged in “anti-national” activity, ThePrint has learnt. According to sources in the J&K government, a committee has been formed under Chief Secretary B.V.R. Subrahmanyam to examine and […]
Jammu: The Pakistan Army on Tuesday opened heavy fire and shelled forward areas along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, drawing retaliation from Indian troops, officials said. They said the Pakistan Army also heavily shelled forward areas along the LoC in Dabraj belt of Mankote sector. “At about 0700 hours, Pak army initiated […]
Srinagar: An unidentified male body was recovered from Nallah Sindh in Sumbal Balla Gund in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Tuesday morning. The body was seen floating by local residents in the stream, an official said. He said police team reached the spot and retrieved the body adding the identity of the body is being […]
New Delhi: Curfew has been imposed in Kashmir valley on Tuesday and Wednesday as the country’s newest Union Territory marks a year since it was formed. The Srinagar district magistrate in an order said they have got information about “separatists and Pakistan sponsored groups planning to observe August 5 as Black Day”. “…Protests are not […]
The government forces on Tuesday defused an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by suspected militants in Tappar village of Pattan in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district, reported a local news agency, Kashmir News Observer (KNO). Unnamed official sources told the agency that the government forces detected and defused an improvised explosive device (IED) planted on the […]
New Delhi: New domicile rules in Jammu and Kashmir are creating uneasy moments in each the two principal regions of the newly-formed union territory. However, these apprehensions are for different reasons. People in the Kashmir Valley claim the new law is designed to change the territory’s demography, while those in Jammu fear an influx of population […]
The General Officer Commanding (GOC), Chinar Corps, Lt Gen B.S. Raju, and Director General Police, Jammu and Kashmir, Dilbag Singh, co-chaired a meeting of the Core Group consisting of top officials of the civil administration, intelligence agencies and security forces here on Monday in the backdrop of the prevailing situation in Jammu and Kashmir. The […]
On August 5 2019, Article 370 of the Constitution was rendered a dead letter by the government of India. The next day, the Prime Minister tweeted, “I salute my sisters and brothers of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh for their courage and resilience. For years, vested interest groups who believed in emotional blackmail never cared for […]
Srinagar: Authorities in Srinagar on Monday ordered curfew on August 4 and 5 in wake of the first anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370. “Senior superintendent of Srinagar has reported that a series of inputs have been received suggesting that separatist and Pak sponsored groups are planning to observe 5th August 2020 as Black […]