Teacher suspended for posting ‘blasphemous’ content on social media
Jammu: Chief education officer Ramban on Wednesday ordered for the suspension of teacher for posting of blasphemous content on social media. The teacher has been identified as Om Raj, who was posted at Govt High School Soomber Ramban, sources said. As per the official order, Raj has been attached in the office of ZEO Batote […]
Family lodged in quarantine, burglars decamp with valuables from home
Srinagar: As all the family members were put under administrative quarantine, burglars, taking advantage of the situation, looted valuables from a residential house in Pampore area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Sources said that unidentified burglars barged into the house of one Zahoor Ahmad from Khanqah Bagh Pampore and decamped with all the valuable items. […]
Five shops sealed in Sopore for violating lockdown SOPs
Sopore: Five shops were sealed in various areas of Sopore for violating SOPs amid the prevailing Covid-19 pandemic, officials said Wednesday. They said that Municipal council squad under the supervision of Imtiyaz Ahmad Pandit Food Inspector and Rahi Mohiudin, tax collector raided various markets in Sopore after they noticed that some shops are violating the […]
Lt Guv releases e-publications relating to financial transactions
JAMMU: Lieutenant Governor, Girish Chandra Murmu Wednesday released four important e-publications relating to financial transactions in Jammu and Kashmir here at the Raj Bhavan. Arun Kumar Mehta, Financial Commissioner, Finance Department gave a detailed briefing about the publications which included Annual Compendium 2019; Delegation of Financial Powers; Grant of 7th CPC Allowances and the Jammu […]
Four associates of LeT held in Sopore
Srinagar: Four persons linked to Lashkar-e-Toiba, and involved in a grenade attack on a police post in Sopore area of Baramulla district in north Kashmir have been arrested, police said on Wednesday. The arrested have been identified as Irfan Ahmed Mir, Irfan Ahmed Khan, Qaiser Rehman Khan and Suhail Ahmed Ganie, a police spokesperson said. […]
Graft Case: ACB files charge sheet against revenue official
Jammu: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has filed a charge sheet against a revenue official in a two-year-old graft case in Kathua district, an agency spokesman said on Wednesday. The charge sheet was filed in the court of Additional Sessions Judge, Anti-Corruption, Kathua, against the then Patwari, Halqa Khokhyal, Nazakat Ali, who was allegedly caught red-handed […]
Man killed as vehicle falls into deep gorge at Ramban
Banihal/Jammu: A man was killed on Wednesday when his car skidded off the road and plunged into a deep gorge along the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Ramban district, police said. Kehar Singh, a resident of Digiana in Jammu, was on his way to Srinagar when the accident took place near the Kela Morh in the […]
Div Com Jammu to investigate death of two relatives of coronavirus patient
JAMMU: The Jammu and Kashmir government today appointment Divisional Commissioner Jammu as an inquiry officer to enquire into the death of two attendants participating in the funeral of a COVID-19 patient at Jammu and death of a person in quarantine at Kathua. The General Administration Department’s order stated that sanction is hereby accorded to the […]
Four senior police officers transferred
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday ordered the transfer of four police officers in the interest of administration. According to an order issued here Sheikh Junaid Mehmood (JKPS), SSP, CID (Hqrs.), J&K, has been transferred and posted as SSP, APCR, Kashmir, vice Altaf Ahmad Khan. Altaf Ahmad Khan (JKPS), SSP, APCR, Kashmir, has been […]
CRPF trooper dies of brain hemorrhage
Qazigund: A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) man, who was posted in Qazigund area of Kulgam district, allegedly died due to brain hemorrhage in SKIMS Soura, officials said. A police official said that an Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) GD Sanatan Singh of 163 Battalion CRPF fell unconscious two days ago at his camp in Walnut […]