LG visits slain teacher’s house in Samba, assures support to her family

Jammu: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha Wednesday visited the residence of slain school teacher Rajni Bala in Samba district and assured every possible assistance and support to her family. Bala was shot dead by terrorists at her school in Kulgam district of south Kashmir on May 31. Met the family members of Smt. Rajni Bala at […]

Amarnath Yatra: DGP visits yatra transit camps enroute national highway

Takes stock of security arrangements, area domination

Srinagar: Director General of Police (DGP), Dilbag Sing Wednesday visited Yatra Transit Camps where he took stock of security arrangements put in place for the pilgrims of Amarnath Yatra. He also reviewed security arrangements at Navyug Tunnel and interacted with the jurisdictional and CRPF officers and sought their reports regarding the security arrangements and area […]

JK reports 11 new covid-19 cases

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir reported eleven new covid-19 cases while there was no death due to the virus during the past 24 hours, officials said on Wednesday. They said that seven cases were reported from Jammu district and four from Baramulla, taking the overall tally to 454301—166514 in Jammu division and 287787 in Kashmir. There […]

Jmu-Sgr highway witnesses brief closure

Jammu: A landslide on Wednesday blocked the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Udhampur district here for nearly two hours, officials said. The landslide struck the 270-km highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with the rest of the country, near Samroli around 12.30 pm during the ongoing work on a four-laning project, they said. The concerned […]

Celebrate JJM as ‘Festival of Water’: CS

Reviewing updated progress of Jal Shakti department

SRINAGAR: Chief Secretary, Dr Arun Kumar Mehta Tuesday observed that the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) should be celebrated as the ‘Festival of Water’ across the UT. He made these remarks while reviewing the updated progress made under it by the concerned department. The Chief Secretary emphasized upon the officers to take the mission to every […]

Annual Kheer Bhawani ‘mela’ Amid tight security, over 200 Kashmiri pandits leave for valley

Jammu: Amid tight security arrangements nearly 250 devotees, mostly migrant Kashmiri pandits, left Jammu on Tuesday in a fleet of government arranged buses to pay obeisance at the revered Kheer Bhawani temple in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district, officials said. The annual Mata Kheer Bhawani mela at the famous Ragnya Devi temple, one of the biggest […]

Four terrorists, including 2 Pakistanis, killed in 24 hours: Police

Srinagar: Four terrorists, including two Pakistanis, were killed in joint operations by the Jammu and Kashmir Police and central security forces in the restive valley in the last two days, officials said on Tuesday. The action followed Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s directive to security forces to eliminate those involved in the recent series of […]

Srinagar bench of CAT disposed sizeable number of service matters: Govt

New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has disposed of a sizeable number of service cases which were received on transfer from the J&K High Court besides fresh litigation filed by the government employees, a statement issued by the personnel ministry on Tuesday said. Consequent upon re-constitution of the […]

JK reports seven new covid-19 cases

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir reported seven new covid-19 cases while there was no death due to the virus during the past 24 hours, officials said on Tuesday. They said that six cases were reported from Jammu district and one from Baramulla, taking the overall tally to 454290—166507 in Jammu division and 287783 in Kashmir. There […]