Over 71,000 cases pending in high courts for more than 30 years: Govt

New Delhi: Over 71,000 cases are pending in various high courts for more than 30 years, Lok Sabha was informed on Friday. The House was also told that over 1.01 lakh cases which are more than 30 years old are pending in lower courts. In a written reply to a question, Law Minister Arjun Ram […]

Woman killed in house collapse in Udhampur

Footbridge washed away in Doda amid heavy rains

Jammu: A woman was killed when her mud house collapsed due to heavy rains in Udhampur district on Friday, officials said. Heavy rains lashed several districts of Jammu region resulting in a footbridge being washed away in a flash flood in Doda and the roof of another house collapsing in Poonch district, they said. A […]

PoK displaced people resent one seat reservation for them in assembly

Jammu: An organisation representing displaced people from Pakistani-occupied Kashmir (PoK) on Friday termed as “step-motherly” treatment the Centre’s decision to reserve one seat for the community in the Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly. It said it expected that at least eight seats would be reserved for the PoK displaced people, whose number is around 12 […]

NIT Srinagar to prepare reports on development, environment

Srinagar: The National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar is envisioning new initiatives like a developmental report and an environmental status report to help the Jammu and Kashmir government and the civil society to develop environmental and developmental strategies for the Union Territory, university director Sudhakar Yedla said on Friday. He said the institute has a […]

Nothing will happen by change in name: Shah on oppn alliance INDIA

Rameswaram: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday slammed the Congress and its allies, including the DMK, saying nothing would happen by changing the name of their alliance to INDIA. Shah was addressing a rally here, ahead of kick-starting Tamil Nadu BJP President K Annamalai’s state-wide ‘En Mann, En Makkal (My Land, My People)’ padayatra. […]

ULB polls in JK: CEO orders special revision of electoral rolls of two MC’s, 75 Municipal Councils, Committees

Srinagar: Setting the stage for holding of urban local bodies’ election in Jammu & Kashmir, Chief electoral officer of J&K on Friday ordered special revision of electoral rolls in all 77 municipal bodies in the Union Territory. The CEO on Friday ordered revision of the electoral rolls in two municipal corporations and 75 municipal councils […]

Security forces recover nearly nine kg narcotics along LoC

Rajouri/Jammu: Security forces on Friday recovered nearly nine kilograms of narcotics along the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district, officials said. The Army, along with the police and the BSF, launched a massive search operation in the Jhangar area of Nowshera sub-division near the LoC following specific intelligence information, Senior Superintendent of Police, Rajouri, […]

Two Amarnath pilgrims among three injured in accident

Ramban/Jammu: Three persons, including two pilgrims, got injured on Friday when an escort vehicle of an Amarnath Yatra convoy skidded off a highway in Ramban district, officials said. The accident took place on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in the Gangroo area, they added. The vehicle was part of the Amarnath convoy to the Baltal basecamp, […]

Amarnath Yatra: Over 2,100 pilgrims leave for twin base camps from Jammu

Jammu: A fresh batch of 2,100 pilgrims left Jammu city for the twin base camps in the valley to join the Amarnath Yatra on Friday, officials said. The 62-day annual pilgrimage to the 3,880-metre-high holy cave shrine of Amarnath in the south Kashmir Himalayas commenced from the twin tracks — the traditional 48-km Nunwan-Pahalgam route […]