Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir’s Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) for South Kashmir range, Atul Goel Wednesday said that the apart from the US-M-4 Carbine and AK-47, six Chinese pistols recovered from a truck at Jawhar Tunnel on Srinagar-Jammu highway at Kulgam district, were meant to recruit new people into militancy. “Joint teams of forces […]
An elderly woman from North Kashmir’s Sopore town Wednesday appealed government to help her from the ‘wrath’ of her husband and sons. Bakhti Baigum (65) emerged here in Press Enclave Srinagar claiming that her husband Muhammad Sultan Ganaie has forcibly dragged her out from the house. She said even her sons are not allowing her […]
Burglars broke into four shops in KP road area of South Kashmir’s Anantnag town and decamped with cash and accessories. The shopkeepers told KNT that they found the locks of their shops broken in the morning and cash missing. The burglary incident has taken place during the intervening night of Sep 8 and 9. The […]
Apni Party vice president Zaffar Iqbal Manhas on Wednesday regretted the developmental deficit in urban as well as rural areas of Jammu and Kashmir. He stressed on an immediate need for initiation of a democratic process that can remove the major obstacles in rural-urban socio-economic empowerment. Addressing a meeting of prominent workers of Shopian district […]
It is becoming an issue in the entire Jammu and Kashmir how authorities have been able to issue 12.5 lakh domiciles in such a short duration of time amid pandemic. While politicians have demanded a white paper over the issuance of domicile certificates in Jammu and Kashmir so far, administration in order to keep the […]
A 35-year-old man was critically injured after being attacked by the bear in North Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Wednesday morning. An official identified the man as Farooq Ahmad Gojjer alias Momin Khan son of Rahemulla Gojjar a resident of Cherwan village in Ajas town of the district. The official said Ahmad was outside his home […]
Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday said he was voluntarily vacating the government accommodation provided to him 18 years ago due to the change in rules of entitlement in the union territory. Abdullah, who was a Lok Sabha member when the government accommodation in high security Gupkar area here was provided […]
The editor of the Ladakh-based newspaper State Times, Tsewang Rigzin was arrested by the police based on a police complaint lodged by Bharatiya Janata Party MP Tsering Namgyal from Ladakh. On 3 September, an unidentified member of a Facebook page called Ladakh in Media posted a comment on Jammu and Kashmir BJP leader Vikram Singh […]
Srinagar: Two persons were arrested along with arms and ammunition including M4 US carbine and an AK rifle by joint forces near Jawahar tunnel in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district late last night, official sources said on Wednesday. They said the joint forces intercepted a truck (JK22B-1737), coming from Samba district, near Jawahar Tunnel and recovered […]
The Ministry of Health and Family welfare has allowed a phased reopening of schools and colleges from September 21. In a notice issued Tuesday, the ministry stated that skill or entrepreneurship training too will be permitted from September 21. The ministry has also allowed the reopening of schools for classes 9 to 12 on a […]