Srinagar, June 03: A man who had snatched weapon from police personnel during questioning and locked himself in a room inside SOG camp in Tral area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district has been killed in a gunfight, officials said on Thrusday. They said that individual’s family including his mother was brought to the spot to […]
Srinagar, June 02: Suspected militants on Wednesday shot dead a BJP leader and Municipal Councillor while a woman was injured in Tral area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, official sources said. They said that gunmen fired upon the BJP councilor Rakesh Pandita son of Somnath Bala from Tral Bala-C in the area, leaving him dead […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Wednesday sought response from government within a month’s time for using different place than the one it had identified for dumping Solid Waste in Pulwama district of South Kashmir. A division bench of Chief Justice Pankaj Mithal and Justice Vinod Chatterji Koul passed the direction after advocate Shafqat […]
Srinagar, Jun 02: Jammu and Kashmir police on Wednesday claimed to have arrested a militant associate of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district and one grenade & fifty live AK series rounds were recovered from his possession. In a statement a police spokesman said that acting on a specific tipoff about anti-national activity in […]
Srinagar, Jun 02: The mental health experts in Jammu and Kashmir Wednesday said that the Covid lockdown in the region has given rise to depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues that have resulted in the increase in suicide tendency. Notably, several suicide incidents in recent were reported from both divisions of Kashmir and Jammu. […]
Srinagar, June 02: General MM Naravane, Chief of the Army Staff, today met Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha here at the Raj Bhavan. The Army Chief was accompanied by Lt Gen YK Joshi, Northern Army Commander and Lt Gen DP Pandey, General Officer Commanding (GoC) 15 Corps. The Lt Governor and the Army Chief discussed about […]
Srinagar, Jun 2: A day after Police recovered two truckloads of illicitly ferried rice from Kupwara to Srinagar, Directorate of Food Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department (DFCS&CA) Kashmir has suspended two officials for their ‘prime facie involvement’ and also ordered an enquiry into the matter. The two suspended officials, as per the order, include […]
Srinagar, June 2: As the Department of Forests has intensified the anti-encroachment drives across J&K, the forest dwellers have started seeking relief from eviction under Forest Rights Act. A top official said that they have regard for Forest Rights Act and whenever people feel their rights are violated in eviction drives, they approach concerned authorities […]
SRINAGAR, JUNE 02: The Directorate of School Education (DSE) as per an official statement has informed that out of 17236 RReTs (Regularized Rehbar-e-Taleem Teachers) / ReTs, 16606 have been transited to Teacher Grade II & III till now. The statement further reads that out of remaining 630 cases, transition of 363 RReTs is pending on […]
Kulgam, Jun 2: In a major crackdown on erring brick kilns, the Deputy Commissioner (DC) Kulgam, Dr.Bilal Mohi-Ud-Din Bhat Wednesday sealed 04 brick kilns during his visit to Hablish and Devsar areas of the district. The brick kilns were sealed after they were found operating without licenses. The DC during the visit was accompanied by […]
