Report corruption, demand for bribery says ACB, launches Toll Free Number
Srinagar: J&K Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) has launched a toll free number for the citizens on which they can report demands for bribe and corruption. The toll free number is 1800-180-7152. “The motive of the ACB behind the announcing Toll Free Number is to encourage citizens to report cases of corruption and bribe demands,” […]
Clashes amid CASO in Khudwani Kulgam
* Kulgam : Clashes erupted amid cordon and search operation in Wani Mohalla locality of Khudwani area in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Monday. “As soon as forces launched CASO in the area, youth took to streets and started pelting stones on government forces which was retialated by police with tear gas canisters,” reports said. […]
LS passes bill to give NIA more teeth
New Delhi, July 15 (PTI) Seeking to give more teeth to the National Investigation Agency (NIA), Lok Sabha on Monday passed a bill to allow it to probe terrorist acts against Indians and Indian interests abroad. The amendments will also allow the NIA to probe cybercrimes and cases of human trafficking. The NIA was set up […]
Modi govt will never misuse NIA law: Amit Shah
New Delhi, Jul 15 (PTI) Refuting opposition’s claims of “misuse” of the NIA law, Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday asserted that the Modi government will never abuse it to target anyone but will ensure that terrorism is finished off irrespective of the religion of the accused. In an intervention during a discussion in Lok Sabha […]
CRPF men save minor girl from drowning in Nallah Ferozpora in Tangmarg
Srinagar: The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel saved a minor girl from drowning in Kunzer Tangmarg on Monday from Nallah Ferozpora near at Chanpora Kunzer. A girl age about 13 years namely Nageena, daughter Mohd Sharief Din of Nagrota Jammu was washing clothes on the banks of river Nallah Ferozpora when she slipped […]
Capacity Building Workshop on ‘Safer Schools’ begins at KU
Srinagar: Department of Geography & Regional Development, University of Kashmir (KU) organised a week long Capacity Building Workshop on ‘Safer Schools’ which started here at KU on Monday. The workshop has been organised in collaboration with Jhelum & Tawi Flood Recovery Project (JTFRP), Government of Jammu & Kashmir and Institute of Disaster Risk Reduction (IDRR), […]
Death toll in Himachal building collapse climbs to 13
Shimla: Five more bodies were retrieved on Monday from the debris of a building collapse in Himachal Pradesh’ Solan district, taking the death toll to 13, officials said. Twenty-eight people were injured after the four-storey building, which housed a restaurant, collapsed on the Nahan-Kumarhatti Road on Sunday evening following heavy rains, they said. The bodies […]
Govt says NIA bill in national interest, Cong calls it attempt to turn India into ‘police state’
New Delhi: The government asserted on Monday that a bill to broaden the NIA’s investigating powers is part of its policy of zero tolerance against terrorism and is in national interest, as Lok Sabha took up a discussion on the proposed legislation. While Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy sought support of all […]
Militants mounted 318 attacks in J&K in 2018: GoI
Srinagar: There were 318 militant attacks in Jammu and Kashmir last year, the government of India said on Monday. Responding to a question by BJP parliamentarian Vijay Goel about the number of militant attacks reported in the country in the past two years, Minister of State in Defence Ministry Shripad Naik told Rajya Sabha that […]