Srinagar: J&K Civil Secretariat Employees Coordination Committee on Friday announced to hold protest from May 16 against delaying tactics by government to resolve employees’ issues and also against locking down of office of its sister concern. Pervez Ahmad Khan, Publicity Secretary of the union said that a meeting of J&K Civil Secretariat Employees Coordination Committee […]
Srinagar: A 65-year-old man slipped to death from a mountain in Kangan area of Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Friday. Identified as Abdul Aziz Bijran son of Mawali Bijran a retired PDD employee and a resident of Haknar Gund in Ganderbal district, reports said he slipped from nearby mountains when he was tilling his own cultivation […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Friday said that the militant slain in a brief shootout with government forces was involved in a series of attacks on police and paramilitary forces in capital city Srinagar. In a statement, a police spokesperson said that acting on credible input, a cordon and search operation was launched today […]
Srinagar: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Friday expressed concern over the frequent occurrence of fatal road accidents on Jammu- Srinagar highway, terming the 294 km road stretch nothing less than a death trap. In a statement, PDP leader Naeem Akhtar said that the present dispensation in Jammu and Kashmir as well as the central government have […]
Srinagar: Intense clashes broke out between youth and government forces outside the historic Jamia Masjid in the old city area of Nowhatta after the congregational Friday prayers. Reports said that soon after the prayers concluded, the youths assembled outside the mosque and pelted stones on the government forces who were deployed around the mosque in strength. […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir government on Friday said civilian vehicles will be restricted on the Jammu-Srinagar highway only on Sundays. The restrictions had been imposed on civilian traffic on the highway on Wednesdays and Sundays after the Pulwama attack in Jammu and Kashmir on February 14 in which 40 CRPF troopers were killed. The […]
Srinagar: A fresh spell of rain is expected in J&K on May 10, an official from Kashmir’s meteorological department said on Friday. “Moderate rain is expected from May 10 till May 15 in many parts of the valley,” he said. Srinagar, the summer capital of the state recorded 12.9 Celsius temperature today, while the mercury […]
Sopore: Militant killed in Amshipora area of Shopian in a pre-dawn shootout has been identified as Ishfaq Ahmad Sofi @ Abdullah bhai, a resident of north Kashmir’s Sopore. Reports said that Ishfaq was associated with militant outfit ISJK. Ishfaq joined Harkatul Mujahideen in 2015 and later switched to ISJK in 2016. Meanwhile, authorities in Sopore have issued […]
Srinagar: Police on Thursday claimed to have seized a large quantity of heroin worth crores of rupees in international market from Banihal area of Jammu and Kashmir. “In its endeavors and commitment to make a drug free society, Ramban Police has once again achieved major success by recovering 30 Kilograms of the banned drug ‘heroin’, popularly […]
Srinagar: Expressing dismay over the imposition of toll tax by National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) on Srinagar-Jammu national highway, Jammu and Kashmir Socio-Economic Coordination Committee (JKSECC) termed the tax as ‘illegal and unconstitutional’. Since the toll plaza was made operational on Tuesday near Sangam on the highway, all sections of society, including politicians, traders, […]
