Srinagar, April 6: After court battle People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti’s daughter Iltija has been issued a passport with 2 year validity. According to a letter, Regional Passport Officer has stated that Iltija has been issued the passport valid from April 5, 2023, to April 4, 2025. Regional Passport Officer had written the […]
Bandipora, Apr 04: Jammu and Kashmir’s Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbagh Singh Thursday said that militancy is not over in the UT but “it is surely declining rapidly” and the security forces are working hard to eliminate the remaining militants in the months ahead. He also said that there has been no law and […]
Srinagar, Apr 06: Former Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has claimed that late. Mufti Muhammad Sayeed misused his “generosity” to become chief minister of Jammu & Kashmir in 2002. In his book, Azad, An Autobiography, the former CM said that he offered Mufti Muhammad Sayeed to be part of the government when he (Azad) had […]
SRINAGAR: The Centre on Wednesday said that 185 persons from outside Jammu and Kashmir bought land in the Union Territory during 2020, 2021, and 2022. In a written reply to a question, Union Minister of State for Home, Nityanand Rai, informed the Rajya Sabha that only one person bought land in 2020, while 57 persons bought […]
Srinagar, Apr 5: Eid prayers at historic Eidgah here are unlikely to be allowed as security establishment has expressed apprehensions about “fomenting of trouble by vested interest to vitiate the peace” in the Kashmir Valley. A senior police officer on condition of anonymity that even though no decision has been taken about holding and otherwise […]
Srinagar Apr 05: National Conference Additional General Secretary Dr. Sheikh Mustafa Kamal on Wednesday expressed concern over the absence of local officers from the bureaucratic setup of Jammu and Kashmir. Kamal, who met a number of public and workers delegations here at the party headquarters Nawa-e-Subha, said, “Disbanding of the All India services J&K cadre […]
Srinagar, April 5: Hours after fleeing from police station in Baramulla, two accused persons, “affiliates” of Lashker-e-Toiba, were re-arrested in the north Kashmir district on Wednesday evening officials said. A top police officer confirmed the re-arrest of the duo, Maroof Nazir Soleh of Kanlibagh and Shahid Showkat Bala of Banglowbagh. The duo had managed their […]
Kupwara, April 3: Six days after the throat-slit body of a minor girl was recovered in Zab village of Khurhama area in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district, police on Monday announced to have worked out the case by arresting her father for the brutal crime. Addressing reporters here, SSP Kupwara Yougal Manhas said that the accused, […]
Srinagar, Mar 29: National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah said on Wednesday that the Election Commission seems to be in no hurry to conduct the assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir and manages to find new excuses to delay the elections. Abdullah wrote on Twitter “When asked about assembly elections in J&K, the chief election […]
SRINAGAR: Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Wednesday said the revision of electoral rolls in Jammu and Kashmir does not disturb schedule or conduct part of polls and the poll-body is aware that there is a vacuum in the Union Territory which needs to be filled. The CEC said that they are aware that there is […]
