Srinagar: Kashmir’s capital city Srinagar on Friday recorded the coldest night of the season at minus -7.7 freezing the water supply lines in most of the city parts. After December 7, 1990, when the minimum temperature had dropped to minus 8.8 degree Celsius, the city recorded the coldest night of the season at minus 7.7 degree, […]
Srinagar:The Chandigarh Union Territory electricity department has decided to purchase power from Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) and from short-term sources like power exchange. The department will buy power from J&K till August. The power will, however, be returned to J&K in November and December, Times of India reported.As per estimates, the peak power demand in […]
Srinagar: A gunfight ensued between government forces and militants in Pulwama village of southern Kashmir on Friday morning. Sources said that the gunfight erupted in Renzipora village of the district after a joint team of government forces including Army, Jammu and Kashmir police’s Special Operations Group and CRPF paramilitary forces cordoned the village. “As the cordon […]
Srinagar: Directing the government to strictly adhere to the mandate of the Jammu and Kashmir Right to Information (RTI) Act 2009 in letter and spirit, the state High Court (HC) said authorities should comply with all the clauses of the act, particularly with section 4, which calls for voluntary disclosure of information by all its […]
Srinagar: Justice Hasnain Masoodi has asked Chairperson BOSE to conduct examination of Ubaid Nazir Bhat, a class 12 student from Shopian. Ubaid Nazir, less than 18 years of age was on 29th October picked by Police Station Imam Saheb reportedly in place of his brother and detained at Police Station and let off after two […]
Srinagar: Tehreek-e-Hurriyat chairperson Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai Thursday condemned the ill-treatment meted out to pro-freedom leader Mushtaq ul Islam at Haryana Jail and said that he has been kept in solitary confinement in a small cell. Sehrai, in a statement, said that the pro-freedom leadership and the youth of Jammu and Kashmir day in and day […]
Srinagar: The report submitted by the police before the State Human Rights Commission has stated that the bag maker of Noorbagh who was killed on September 27 this year was injured after militants fired indiscriminately to take advantage of darkness to flee from the spot. “During the course of investigation, while as cordon was laid, […]
Ganderbal:The dead body of a girl who went missing on December 25 was recovered on Thursday from a power canal at Panzin area of Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district. Officials said that a 20 year old girl identified as Rubeena Bano, daughter of Nazir Ahmad Tandooli, a resident of Wooder Kangan was missing since December 25 […]
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir accountant general (AG) is yet to make the CAG’s report for the year 2017-18 public, even as the year is nearing its end, a senior official said Thursday. The report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) was submitted to Governor Satya Pal Malik long ago and it was supposed to […]
Srinagar: Former power development department (PDD) commissioner, A K Raina passed away late last evening in Jammu. Reports said that Raina, who was a recipient of the President’s medal, breathed his last after brief illness in Jammu. The deceased was an IIT alumnus.
