4G restoration in JK, Plea in SC seeks contempt action

New Delhi: A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking initiation of contempt proceedings against Union Home Secretary and Chief Secretary of Jammu and Kashmir for their alleged ‘willful disobedience’ in complying with the apex court’s order for setting up a “special committee” to consider restoration of 4G internet services in the Union […]

Unlock 0.1: Sgr Traders give undertaking to follow SOPs, seek re-opening

Crucial meet at DC office today, says KTMF

Srinagar: The final meeting to open shops in the city centre—Lal Chowk and other areas of Srinagar will be taken after a crucial meeting between traders and the deputy commissioner Srinagar tomorrow afternoon, official sources said. They said the traders have already given a written undertaking that they will follow the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) […]

Lt Guv condemns killing of Sarpanch

JAMMU: Lieutenant Governor, Shri Girish Chandra Murmu has expressed deep pain and anguish at the killing of Ajay Pandita Bharti, Sarpanch in Anantnag south Kashmir. Calling it a cowardly act, the Lt Governor condemned the killing and said that those behind the killing are the enemies of humanity. The attack on any public representative is […]

NIA custody: Kashmiri woman who tested COVID-19 denied bail

New Delhi: A Kashmiri woman, who was found COVID-19 positive during her NIA custody, was denied interim bail on Tuesday by a Delhi court in a case of allegedly planning a terror attack in the country during the anti-CAA protests here. Hina Bashir Beg, currently lodged into Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Hospital, was arrested along […]

MHA orders transfer of four officers from JK to Ladakh

Strength of IAS, IPS officers in cold desert UT reaches 11

Srinagar: The Ministry of Home Affairs on Tuesday ordered transfer of four IAS and IPS officers from Jammu & Kashmir Union Territory to Ladakh Union Territory, taking the strength of officers from both the elite services to 11 in the cold desert. The MHA’s Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh division Tuesday ordered transfer of Ajeet […]

Police signals ‘alarm’ over ‘one ring phone scam’

Srinagar: The Cyber Cell of Jammu and Kashmir police Tuesday sounded an alarm over the “one ring phone scam” urging people not to return missed calls or to respond to the calls from unknown international numbers. The Cyber wing termed it as “global scam, which has got active for Kashmir also” where scammers give missed […]

Sgr advocate appointed judge of JK High Court

New Delhi: A prominent advocate was on Tuesday appointed a judge of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court. According to a Law Ministry notification, Javed Iqbal Wani has been appointed a judge of the common high court of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and Union Territory of Ladakh. His recommendation, made by the […]

Suspended DSP Davinder Singh moves Delhi court, seeks bail

New Delhi: Suspended Jammu and Kashmir DSP Davinder Singh, arrested while ferrying two Hizb-ul-Mujahideen militants in a vehicle on the Srinagar-Jammu Highway earlier this year, moved a Delhi court on Tuesday seeking bail. Singh and two other accused in the case – Irfan Shafi Mir and Sayed Naveed Mushtaq – moved the applications, claiming they […]

Coronavirus: Five deaths, 198 positive cases reported in JK

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir recorded five more COVID-19 related deaths including of a CRPF personnel, taking the toll in the union territory to 46, officials said on Monday. The 40-year-old CRPF jawan, who was posted in Anantnag district in south Kashmir, was admitted to SKIMS hospital here on Thursday with acute respiratory distress syndrome, the […]