Junaid Mattu finds a warm heart in Altaf Bukhari, joins ‘Apni party’

Srinagar: Srinagar Mayor Junaid Azim Mattu on Friday joined the Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) here, days after winning the coveted post of the city’s civic body. Mattu joined the JKAP — led by former finance minister Altaf Bukhair — at the party’s head office in the Lal Chowk area of the city here, […]

Implement decision to forego interest on eight categories of loans: SC to Govt

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday directed the government to ensure that all steps be taken to implement its decision to forego interest on eight specified categories of loans paid upto Rs two crore in view of the coronavirus pandemic. A bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan said the COVID-19 pandemic has not only caused […]

Police disallows press conference at Mehbooba Mufti’s residence

Denies claims of house arrest

Srinagar: Kashmir is an “open air prison where no one has the right to express their opinion, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti said on Friday after the authorities barred her from holding a press conference at her residence here where she claimed she was placed under house arrest in the morning. The former Jammu and Kashmir […]

PDP’s Waheed Parra remanded to 15-day NIA custody

Jammu: PDP leader Waheed Parra was remanded to 15 days of National Investigation Agency (NIA) custody on Friday following his arrest earlier this week for allegedly conspiring with Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists to get their support during the 2019 parliamentary elections. Parra was taken to Jammu and produced before a designated NIA court in a case […]

Two Army men killed during shelling along LoC

Jammu: Two Army jawans were killed on Friday as Pakistani troops opened heavy fire and shelled mortars along the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district, a defence official said. He said the Indian Army immediately responded to the unprovoked firing from across the border. “The Pakistani army resorted to unprovoked ceasefire on the Line […]

COVID-19 pandemic: Govt authorizes DGP prisons to extend special parole if pandemic worsens

Srinagar: The Jammu & Kashmir government has authorised director general of police (prisons) to extend special parole of convicts by eight more weeks if the COVID-19 pandemic situation in the UT does not improve or further worsens. According to an order issued by Home department of J&K Union Territory, DGP Prisons has been empowered to […]

ICMR nod for CCMB’s dry swab testing for COVID-19

Hyderabad: The Indian Council of Medical Research has approved a dry swab RNA- extraction-free testing method for the COVID-19 virus developed by CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, CCMB said here on Friday. Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is an important macromolecule that is present in all biological cells. In the conventional testing method, nasopharyngeal or oropharyngeal […]