Srinagar: An inmate, who was under custody of police station Sopore, has escaped on Tuesday. Police officials identified the inmate as Abdul Majeed Mir, 24, a resident of Tujjer Shareef area of Sopore town. He was under police after he was booked under FIR number 50 U/S 13 ULA in Bomai police station. Meanwhile, police […]
Unknown persons on Tuesday afternoon set ablaze two shops and damaged the residential house of Kifayat Mir, in south Kashmir’s Shopian district who allegedly was an “army informer”. Sources said that the incident took place at his native village at Molu Chitragam in Shopian. Kifayat’s “confessional video” had gone viral on social media in April […]
SRINAGAR, JUNE 11: Giving a major relief to the teachers working under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan(SSA), Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti today ordered the immediate release of Rs 143 crore for paying their pending salaries. The direction came during a meeting chaired by the Chief Minister here today. Minister for School Education, Hajj & Auqaf, Choudhary Zulfkar; […]
Srinagar: The Karvan-e-Aman bus, operating between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistan-administered-Kashmir, left here on Monday. The bus with only one PaK returnee which left Bemina, Srinagar, has since reached Trade Facilitation Centre (TFC), at Uri. Sources said more passengers would board the bus before leaving for Kaman post, the last Indian military on this […]
Srinagar: A traffic cop was killed in a road mishap at Pantha-Chowk area along the Srinagar-Jammu highway on Monday, police said. Senior Superintendent of police (Traffic city), Tahir Jeelani confirmed the death of a traffic cop and said that traffic police man was killed after a speedy vehicle hit him while he was performing his professional […]
Srinagar: Opposition National Conference (NC) has paid glowing tributes to its veteran leaders Late Mirza Mohammad Afzal Beg and Late Khwaja Ghulam Mohuiddin Shah on their 36th and 14th death anniversaries respectively. On Sunday, the NC president Dr. Farooq Abdullah said that “Beg’s contributions and vital role in the history of Jammu and Kashmir’s struggle […]
SRINAGAR, JUNE 10: Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday urged people to come forward and “donate pieces of art and heritage” to the academy so that they are preserved for and shared with posterity. Mehbooba said while visiting the ongoing exhibition of Islamic art objects and rare Quranic manuscripts being held at Tourist Reception Centre, […]
Srinagar: Director Tourism Kashmir Mahmood A Shah on Saturday handed over rupees five lakh cheque to the family of a tourist R Thirumany who was killed in stone pelting incident at Narbal on May 8. Director said that no amount can compensate the loss of the life and added that whole J&K state is consoling the sad demise […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Police on Sunday claimed to have arrested Rajinder Singh aka Bobby, brother of former BJP minister Lal Singh, in Udaipur, in Rajasthan. “We knew about his (Bobby’s) movements and were tracking him. He was on our radar. A special team of J&K police arrested him from Udaipur, Rajasthan,” police said. Bobby […]
Crime Branch Kashmir on Saturday claimed to have booked a J&K Bank employee for making fraudulently debiting lakhs of rupees from different accounts and credited into bank accounts of his family members. Police spokesperson in a statement said that on 11th May Crime Branch Kashmir received a communication No. JKB/Dadaom/2018-152 from J&K Bank Branch Dada […]
