NIA summons Cong leader to appear before it on Tuesday
Jammu: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has summoned senior Congress leader and former minister G M Saroori to appear before it on February 11 for questioning in connection with the ‘terror incidents’ in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. Saroori, 67, is Jammu and Kashmir Congress vice president and three-time legislator from Inderwal […]
2000 vital projects to be completed by March 2021 in JK: AK Mehta
Govt aims to clear all bottlenecks in economy
SRINAGAR: In order to bolster economy and take Government’s Mission Development ahead, Financial Commissioner, Finance, Dr Arun Kumar Mehta, today said that nearly two-thousand vital projects would be completed by March 2021 across Jammu and Kashmir. “We have completed 300 languishing projects so far. We are firm that we have to complete 2000 projects by […]
No basis to charge Omar, Mehbooba under PSA: Priyanka Gandhi
New Delhi: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday said it is “pretty clear” the government has no basis to charge Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti under the Public Safety Act and the two former Jammu and Kashmir chief ministers must be freed. Since when has becoming a “daddy’s girl” and encouraging people to vote […]
12 injured in bus-truck collision in Samba
Jammu: At least 12 people were injured on Monday when a passenger bus collided with a truck on the Jammu-Pathankot highway in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. The bus was on its way to Jammu from Kathua district and collided with the truck near Gagwal, a police official said. He said the […]
National Conference MP’s son slapped with PSA in Kashmir
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Monday slapped the stringent Public Safety Act against Hilal Lone, the son of National Conference Lok Sabha member Mohammad Akbar Lone, officials said here. Hilal Lone had been under preventive detention since August 5 last year when the Centre announced the abrogation of erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state’s […]
Civilian shot dead by militants in Pulwama
Srinagar: Militants on Sunday shot dead a civilian in Tral area of Pulwama district in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. Ghulam Nabi Mir (55), a contractor by profession, was shot at by militants outside his house at Tral Payeen around 7.30 pm, the officials said. Mir was rushed to a hospital, where doctors declared him […]
Mobile internet snapped, restored later in Kashmir
Two journalists were summoned by the police for reporting the JKLF press release
Srinagar: The authorities snapped mobile internet services in Kashmir on Sunday as a precautionary measure to prevent any law-and-order scenario on the seventh death anniversary of Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru, officials said here. The mobile internet services were suspended early in the morning as the authorities apprehended violence in the valley in view […]
