Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir, Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbagh Singh Tuesday said the police department was all set to ensure the smooth conduct of Lok Sahba elections scheduled to commence from next month. The polling for Lok Sabha polls in Jammu and Kashmir will be held in in five phases – April 11, April […]
Srinagar: After 70 years, Madwah village of Nowgam in north Kashmir’s Langate area of Kupwara district got electricity connection for the first time. The region was deprived of power supply since 1947. “It is like Eid for us. Even after more than 70 years there had been no electricity here. Earlier also we had approached […]
Srinagar: Peoples Conference (PC) candidate, Irfan Raza Ansari on Tuesday filed nomination papers for the upcoming parliamentary polls from Srinagar-Budgam constituency. Ansari was accompanied by party chairman and former minister in the Sajad Gani Lone, PC General Secretary Imran Ansari, PC senior leader Abid Ansari, Junaid Azim Matoo and other leaders today in front of District […]
Srinagar: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has urged the European Union to highlight the ongoing “human rights violations” in Kashmir. Khan was talking to Frederica Morgherini, European Union’s (EU) High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, who called on him here at the PM Office, Associated Press of Pakistan reported. Welcoming the EU High Representative, […]
Srinagar: Several youth have been arrested during pre-dawn raid in Janwara village of Sopore in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Locals said that the government forces including the Special Operations Group of Jammu and Kashmir Police, and paramilitary CRPF personnel raided many residential houses in the village and detained several youth during the intervening night of Monday […]
Srinagar: In a tragic incident, brother-sister drowned in a in a stream at Rafiabad in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Monday. Mohammad Ashraf Najar, 12, son of Mohammad Iqbal Najar while trying to save his eight-year-old sister Seerat Jan slipped into the Nallah at upper reaches of Shalkote area of Rafiabad. Ashraf tried to rescue […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Police on Monday traced three boys, who were reported missing from Handwara in frontier Kashmir district of Kupwara, in the summer capital, Srinagar. A police official said on Sunday a report was lodged at Police Station Vilgam, stating that three boys from the neighbouring village of Dohama were missing. A case […]
Srinagar: Despite major improvement in the weather, only one-way traffic will continue on Kashmir highway till further orders, traffic police officials said. On Monday traffic will ply from Jammu to Srinagar and no vehicle will be allowed from opposite direction, the officials said. They said Light Motor Vehicles (LMVs) will have to cross Jakheni, Udhampur, between […]
Srinagar: Government forces Monday busted a militant hideout in south Kashmir’s Shopian district. A police spokesperson said that in a joint operation by the police and the Army’s 44 Rashtriya Rifles, the hideout was busted in orchards of Shirmal village in Zainapora area of the district. He said that “incriminating” material and other items have been […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir National Conference president Dr Farooq Abdullah on Monday filed his nomination papers for upcoming Lok Sabha elections in Srinagar. Dr Abdullah will contest the polls from Srinagar-Budgam parliamentary constituency and filed the papers at Deputy Commissioners office in Srinagar. Others who are in the fray in include Peoples Democratic Party’s Agha […]
