Lt Guv for exploring renewable energy resources, boosting Agriculture sector
Srinagar: Lieutenant Governor Girish Chandra Murmu has asserted the need to focus on exploring renewable energy resources to meet the gap between demand and supply of electricity in the newly created created Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Murmu, who on Thursday took oath of office at Raj Bhawan in Srinagar, also expressed the need […]
Ex-BDO, 13 others booked for IAY scheme fraud in Budgam
Srinagar: As many as 14 people, including a former Block Development Officer (BDO), Panchayat secretary and Inspector Panchayat, were booked for fraud in Indira AwasYoujana (IAY) scheme in central Kashmir district of Budgam. An official on Friday said that Crime Branch Kashmir presented charge sheet against the 14 accused before the court of special judge […]
JK broken into pieces, downgraded to UT, says Cong
Jammu: The people of Jammu and Kashmir have nothing to celebrate as a state, which had an identity even 200 years before Independence, has been broken into pieces, Congress leader G A Mir said on Thursday. Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday transitioned from a state into union territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh, nearly […]
ACB raids officials house, flats in Jammu
Seals property as well
Jammu: Amidst rumors about a slated crackdown against officials involved in corrupt practices, sleuths of Anti-corruption bureau sleuths raided the residence of a district-level officer in a disproportionate assets case and attached his house worth over Rs 1.48 crores, officials said. The bureau has sealed the house of Pranav Gandotra at the posh ChanniHimmat Colony […]
Militants behind attack on truckers will be dealt with: DGP
Says attack on apple trucks a direct attack on people
Srinagar: Jammu Kashmir Police Chief Dilbagh Singh Saturday said that the attack on truckers in South Kashmir’s Shopian district is a direct attack on the people. He said that such attacks are not in the interest of locals as their economy gets heavily affected by such incidents. Dilbagh Singh while talking to reporters at Humhama […]
Youth injured in Bemina clashes, admitted in hospital
Srinagar: A youth suffered injuries after a stone-pelting incident in Bemina area of Srinagar city on Saturday. He was later admitted in a hospital. Locals said that after a Muharam process that was taken out from Dargund area dispersed peacefully, some youth at Hamdania Colony Bemina pelted stones on Forces deployed in the area. During […]
Hundreds participated in SAR Geelani’s funeral
Baramulla: The body of former Delhi University teacher SAR Geelani, who died following an alleged cardiac arrest in a Delhi gym was laid to rest in his hometown Baramulla on Saturday. Geelani (50), who was arrested in the 2001 Parliament attack case before being acquitted by the SC, fell unconscious in a gym in South […]
Bovine smuggler booked under PSA
Jammu: A bovine smuggler was detained under the Public Safety Act here, police said on Saturday. Faryad Ali, a resident of Rangoora byepass, was wanted in four FIRs registered against him under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PCA) Act between 2008 and 2019 at various police stations in Kathua district, a police spokesman said. […]
JK resident gets 10 years in jail in arms case
Darbhanga (Bihar): A Jammu and Kashmir man from whom arms and ammunition were recovered in 2016 was sent to 10 years in jail by a court in Bihar’s Darbhanga district. Additional District and Sessions Judge (IV) Inayat Kareem held Upendra Singh Thakur alias Sardar Singh guilty under different sections of Arms Act and IPC. He […]
