RBI appoints Additional Director on J&K Bank Board of Directors

Srinagar: Aiming to strengthen the J&K Bank’s board further, Reserve bank of India in a significant move on Wednesday appointed A K Misra – former Executive Director RBI- as Additional Director on its Board of Directors. “Reserve Bank of India is of the opinion that it is necessary in the public interest and in the […]
Banning civilian traffic during: Hurriyat condemns govt’s decision, calls it ‘anti-people diktat’
Srinagar: The Moderate Hurriyat Conference Thursday condemned the government’s decision to ban civilian traffic on a stretch of the Jammu-Srinagar national highway for over five hours a day to allow incident-fYatraree passage to vehicles carrying Amarnath yatra pilgrims, saying the “anti-people diktat” be immediately withdrawn. A meeting of the senior leaders of the Hurriyat Conference, […]
First batch of 304 Hajj pilgrims leaves for Saudi Arabia

Srinagar: The first batch of over 300 pilgrims from Jammu and Kashmir left for Saudi Arabia Thursday to perform the annual Muslim pilgrimage Haj. Governor S P Malik flagged off the first flight of 152 Hajis for Medina which left from the Srinagar International Airport Thursday morning, an official spokesman said. On the first day, […]
Employees fight over seized timber in north Kashmir
Lodge police complaints against each other
Srinagar: Tussle between the officials in the Forest Department and the Forest Protection Force (FPF) personnel in Langate area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district has finally landed with the police with officials from the two departments filing a complaint against each other. The fissures among the officials of the two departments started when a team […]
5,522 pilgrims leave Jammu for Amarnath cave
Jammu: The fifth batch with the highest number of 5,522 pilgrims so far left a base camp here for the holy cave shrine of Amarnath, located at a height of 3,880 metres in the south Kashmir Himalayas, amid tight security arrangements on Thursday. As many as 35,000 pilgrims had paid obeisance at the cave shrine […]
Porter slips to death
Srinagar: An army porter died Thursday after he slipped and rolled down into a deep gorge in Karnah sector of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district. A police official said that the army porter identified as Ghulam Din (45) son of Shah Mohammad was his way to Dogra Post from Ragni Post on Thursday afternoon when he […]
Ban on bovine transportation imposed in Jammu
JAMMU: District Magistrate Jammu in exercise of powers vested upon him under Section 144 Cr. P.C directed that no bovine animals such as cow, oxen, bulls, calves etc be transported from district Jammu to other district except with written permission from District Magistrate or Additional District magistrate Jammu under certain conditions imposed from time to […]
3 drug peddlers arrested
Jammu: Three drug peddlers were arrested from Samba district, police said on Thursday. During routine checking of vehicles at Naka Daboh, the police intercepted a scooter and a motor cycle and recovered 40 gm of heroin from the two riders and a pillion, they said. Aman Singh, Randeep Singh Jamwal and Ravi Kumar were arrested […]
Hafiz Saeed, 12 others booked for terror financing

Lahore: Mumbai attacks mastermind and JuD chief Hafiz Saeed and 12 of his close aides have been booked by Pakistani agencies for committing multiple offences of terrorism financing and money laundering through the massive funds collected through charities, as Islamabad faced intense international pressure to disrupt terror groups and curb terror funding. The Counter Terrorism […]
Govt approves implementation of ‘J&K Digital Village’ Programme
SRINAGAR: The State Administrative Council (SAC) has approved implementation of the “J&K Digital Village” programme through Jammu and Kashmir e-Governance Agency (JaKeGA), with the motto “Back to Village via Digital Means” after observing the stupendous response of the people to the recently concluded “Back to Village” Programme. The existing Gram Panchayat building will be designated […]