Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir police on Wednesday claimed to have booked Shia Muslim mourners for raising pro-freedom slogans during a Muharram procession on Srinagar outskirts. In a statement, a police spokesperson said, “On surfacing of a video in social media in which mourners were found chanting pro Azadi slogans in a Jaloos-e-Aza (Mauharram Procession). […]
BJP MP and member of Information Technology (IT) parliamentary panel Nishikant Dubey on Wednesday wrote to committee’s chairperson and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, urging him to cancel the panel’s upcoming meeting citing that its agenda is in contravention of the rules of the House. The meeting, scheduled on September 1, is on the withdrawal of the 4G […]
A day after 24-year-old man, who was on interim bail in POSCO case, allegedly committed suicide by jumping from Tawi bridge, the police on Wednesday ordered a high-level inquiry into the incident. “We are deeply saddened by the unfortunate incident. A high-level enquiry into the matter to ascertain the facts and circumstances of the case […]
Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) recently held a meeting with new LG Manoj Sinha and held a detailed meeting with him giving him all the background of their sufferings at the hands of administration in Jammu and Kashmir. They informed the LG that despite business being shut from the past 13 months, there […]
Unscheduled power cuts have irked the residents of many localities in North kashmir’s Handwara, Kultura feeder demanding that power supply must be restored as per schedule Accusing Power Development Department (PDD) for ignoring their plights, Inhabitants of various areas of Guloora,Kultura,Pohrupeth Hanjishart etc on demanded immediate redressal of the genuine grievances. Residents of the said […]
A 95-year-old man from Srinagar’s Kawdara area on Tuesday was among 16 persons who died due to COVID-19 in Jammu and Kashmir since overnight, taking the fatality count to 649 in Jammu and Kashmir, reported a local news agency, Global News Service. Among the casualties, thirteen were from Kashmir Valley while three persons including a […]
A youth hailing from Central Kashmir’s Budgam district has been arrested by Central Reserve Police Force while roaming in suspicious condition outside Parliament House here in New Delhi, media reports said on Wednesday. Reports said that the Kashmir Youth was roaming around Delhi’s Vijay Chowk, when CRPF nabbed him on the allegations that he made […]
Jammu and Kashmir police said on Wednesday (August 26) that Jammu-Srinagar National Highway (NHW-44) continued to remain blocked as clearance work following landslide and heavy rains in the area is still underway.
A 35-year-old man was killed after a fresh landslide triggered by heavy rainfall hit Kotli village of Manjkote in Rajouri district on Wednesday. The fresh landslides triggered by the heavy rainfall also damaged numbers of roads and bridges partially in Rajouri and Poonch district areas. Unnamed officials told a local news agency, Kashmir News Observer […]
A residential house was on Wednesday partially damaged in a fire incident in Noorkha village of Uri in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, reported a local news agency, Kashmir News Observer (KNO). Unnamed officials told the agency that mysterious fire was broke out from a residential house of Syed Zulfikar, son of Sayed Altaf Hussain, leaving […]