Srinagar: The elections to 2 municipal corporations, 3 municipal councils and 72 municipal committees in the state shall be held from 8 to 16 October. The polling will be held on 08, 10, 13 and 16 October respectively, while as the date of counting will be October 20. The polling hours will be from 7:00 […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir government has decided to order official holiday in the areas going for municipal polls on October 8, Monday. Although the official order to thjis effect will be issued later in the day, however, sources in the government confirmed the development. The Joint Resistance Leadership of Jammu and Kashmir has already […]
Srinagar: Twenty people have died while 17 injured suffered injuries after an overcrowded mini bus it plunged into a 200-feet deep gorge on the Jammu-Srinagar highway on Saturday, police said. The accident took place at Kela Mod in Ramban. “Of the 17 injured passengers, 10 in critical condition have been airlifted to Jammu city for treatment […]
Srinagar: Twenty alleged drug peddlers were taken into preventive custody in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district, police said Saturday. They were detained on the directions of the deputy commissioner of Doda. Most of them are residents of Doda, Thathri, Bhalla and Bhadarwah, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Doda, Shabir Ahmad Malik, said. He said they […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir government on Saturday suspended Chief Engineer J&K UEED presently attached to Public Health Engineering department (IFC). “Pending enquiry into his conduct, Mr. Muhammad Haneef Lone, incharge chief engineer, presently attached with PHE, I&FC Department is hereby placed under suspension with immediate effect, in terms of rule 31 of Jammu and […]
Srinagar: Army has said that more than 250 militants are ready to infiltrate into this side of the Line of Control. General Operations Commanding of Srinagar based 15 corps of the Indian army while briefing media in remote Keran in northern Kashmir on Friday, however, said the soldiers are ready to give “befitting reply to […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir has arrested a drug peddler in capital city Srinagar and recovered 105 grams of charas from his possession. A police spokesperson said that on Friday Police Station Nigeen during a naka intercepted Riyaz Ahmad son of Shamroz Khan, a resident of Gutlibagh Ganderbal & during his personal search recovered 106 gms […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir government has established check points at several places across the Kashmir’s capital city Srinagar. The heightened security arrangements have been put in place a day after two National Conference workers were shot dead in Old City’s Karfali Mohalla. Sources said that government forces have established laid naka’s at several places […]
Srinagar: The body of recently abducted person of Tujjar village in northern Kashmir’s Sopore was on Saturday found in an orchard in Harwan in Baramula. Tawseef Ganie of Tujjar was abducted from Unisoo by unknown gunmen. Officials confirmed that the body of Ganie has been recovered from the orchards. “Throat slit body of Tawseef Ganie […]
Srinagar: More than a dozen people are presumed to be dead in a tragic road accident in the mountainous Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir. Reports said that a minibus carrying passengers from Banihal to Ramban town skidded off the road and plunged into a deep gorge along the Srinagar-Jammu highway this morning. Soon after […]
