Authorities on Tuesday morning imposed restrictions in areas falling under jurisdiction of two police stations in Kathua district after violent protests broke out at newly established Toll Post at Lakhanpur leaving four people injured. “Restrictions are being imposed in the jurisdiction of Police Station Kathua and Police Station Lakhanpur,” Senior Superintendent of Police Kathua Shailendra […]
On January 11, 2018, when the then finance minister of undivided Jammu and Kashmir, Haseeb A. Drabu, presented the annual budget, little did anyone realise that it would be the last one for the state. One of the key highlights was a focus on logistics. “The big idea,” he said, “is to move the economy […]
Srinagar: A two-day curfew was been imposed in the Kashmir Valley on Tuesday ahead of the first anniversary of the scrapping of Article 370, which granted special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir. Sources said the decision was taken at the security core group meeting held on Monday in Srinagar. The meeting was […]
Srinagar: Kashmir reported three more deaths due to covid-19 , taking the fatality count due to the virus to 412 in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Tuesday. They said that two among the deaths—a 65-year-old woman from Budgam and a 75-year-old man from Srinagar’s Khaniyar area— were reported at CD hospital, one of the […]
Srinagar: Kashmir Journalist Qazi Shibli has been booked under 107 CRPC and shifted to Srinagar Central Jail on Monday after he was summoned and eventually detained by Srinagar police last Friday. On Thursday, Shibli, the editor of The Kashmiriyat, an Anantnag based news website, received a call from the cyber police Srinagar asking him to report […]
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 […]