Jammu: While the temperature have started soaring in the winter capital here, the Jammu district is facing a water shortage of 11 million gallons per day. As per sources, the Jammu Urban Sector earlier used to face crunch of 50 million gallons of water per day but with various water schemes set into motion and made […]
Dhaka: A Saudi Arabia-born Bangladeshi, who returned to the country after fighting for the Islamic State (IS) in Syria, has been arrested by the counter-terrorism police for alleged plans to establish a caliphate in the Muslim-majority country. Born in Saudi Arabia to a Bangladeshi father and a Pakistani mother, 33-year-old Motaj Abdul Majid Kafiluddin Bepari was […]
Jammu: Three absconders wanted in separate cases were arrested in Jammu and Poonch districts of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said Thursday. A police team raided a place in Poonch on Wednesday and arrested Mohd Azam, who had been evading arrest for the past 10 years, they said. He was wanted in a case of house-trespass, […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Thursday arrested two drug peddlers and recovered heroine and cash from their possession. A police spokesperson said that a police party led by SHO RM Bagh police station during naka at Hotel International crossing intercepted a white color Alto car bearing registration number JK03G-7636. During the search of the vehicle some quantity of heroine […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir has bagged 12 medals, including four gold and six silver, in Koshiki Martial Arts Federation cup held in Haryana. The Koshiki Federation Cup in which different states of the country participated, was held at Gaira Smiti Hall, Faridabad in Haryana last week. The players who have won gold […]
Srinagar: Taking a jibe at Narendra Modi for his attacks on former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, National Conference (NC) vice-president Omar Abdullah said it is almost as the PM has discovered a time machine and is fighting the 1989 General elections, with Rajiv Gandhi as his principal rival. ‘Has Modi ji discovered a time machine? It’s […]
Srinagar: After people across the political and social spectrum protested the toll tax on the Jammu-Srinagar Highway, Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik on Thursday assured that locals would be exempted from paying the tax. “There won’t be any toll tax on the locals. We have taken up the issue with the central government […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik Thursday inaugurated the traffic grade separator at Tourist Reception Centre (TRC) crossing here, a project which missed its initial date of completion by two and half years. Then Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed had laid the foundation stone of the grade separator project in December 2015 and […]
Srinagar: Body of an unidentified person recovered Wednesday from a nallah in Sopore was buried at Gantmullah area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. As a part of a normal procedure, DNA samples have been taken and sent to FSL, sources said. The body was recovered with magazine pouch from a nallah at Mal Ganipora area […]
Srinagar: The City police have arrested a man for sexually exploiting and enticing minors in north Kashmir district of Bandipora, a police spokesperson said on Thursday. He said a complaint was lodged by a local resident that one Ghulam Hassan Sofi, son of Ghulam Rasool Sofi, resident of Nasoo Bandipora was enticing minors with money […]
