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Gen Rawat appointed first Chief of Defence Staff

New Delhi: Army Chief Gen Bipin Rawat was on Monday appointed India’s first Chief of Defence Staff with a mandate to bring in convergence...

Increase in forest cover: JK figures among top 5

JAMMU: Jammu and Kashmir has figured among top five states of the country in terms of increase in its forest cover area over past...

Arms licence scam: CBI searches residences of bureaucrats in Srinagar, Jammu

Srinagar: Nearly two years after the Rajasthan police unearthed the scam, the CBI on Monday carried out searches at 13 places in the union...

5 political detainees released in Srinagar after 4 months

Srinagar: Five political leaders, who had been under preventive detention for the past 148 days, were released from the MLA hostel on Monday by...

High Court opens its jobs for non-local candidates

Jammu: Opening the state employment in the Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh for candidates from across the country after nullification of Article 370,...

Grave injustice with youth: JKNPP

Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers party on Monday accused the Union territory’s government of having jeopardized the career of unemployed educated youths in...

Srinagar witnesses coldest night of season, shivers at minus 6.2 degrees Celsius

Srinagar: The fringes of the famous Dal Lake froze on Sunday as the mercury continued its freefall in Srinagar which experienced the coldest night...

North India in frigid grip of cold; schools closed, rail, air traffic hit

New Delhi: North India continued to reel under intense cold on Sunday as the Haryana government decided to close schools for two days and...

Saudi plans OIC foreign ministers’ meeting on Kashmir

Islamabad: Saudi Arabia plans to convene a meeting of the foreign ministers of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation on Kashmir, in an apparent move...

Himayat programme making JK youth self-reliant: Modi

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday exhorting people to become self-reliant and live their lives with dignity, he also cited the example...

Three dead in separate accidents on Srinagar–Jammu highway

Banihal/Jammu: Three persons were killed on Sunday in two separate accidents on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Ramban district, police said. While two persons died...

Intensified pro-people activities after abrogation of Article 370: Army

Jammu: When Centre revoked the special status of Jammu and Kashmir nearly five months ago, the Army launched a special operation called “Mission Reach...

Northern Army commander reviews security situation in Kashmir

Srinagar: The chief of Army’s Northern Command, Lt Gen Ranbir Singh, reviewed the security situation in the Kashmir Valley on Sunday, a defence spokesman...

J&K’s statehood will be restored in near future: Madhav

Jammu: BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav on Friday sought to assure the people of Jammu and Kashmir that the statehood of the new...

NC seeks review says, ‘it won’t change his towering stature’

Jammu: Expressing anguish over deletion of National Conference founder Sheikh Abdullah’s birth anniversary from Jammu and Kashmir’s official holiday calendar, the party Saturday sought...

2019: A year that reshaped J&K

Srinagar: For Jammu and Kashmir, 2019 was a year of massive changes with defining firsts and lasts and unprecedented curbs. On October 31, Jammu and...

Congress holds flag march in Jammu

Jammu: Congress’ Jammu and Kashmir unit took out a flag march here on Saturday to mark the 135th foundation day of the party, with...

Internet restored in Kargil but shutdown continues in Kashmir

SRINAGAR: Mobile internet facility was resumed in Ladakh's Kargil district on Friday but there is no word on when internet services will be restored...

Traffic mismanagement on Srinagar-Jammu highway triggers protest

JAMMU: Heavy traffic jams were witnessed on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway at Nagotra toll post on Friday as authorities did not allow fresh Kashmir-bound...

Expedite implementation of e-office: Singh to states, UTs

NEW DELHI: Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Friday appealed to all states and Union territories to expedite implementation of e-office or digitisation of government...

JK Bank appointed lead bank convenor for JK; SBI gets Ladakh

Mumbai: The Reserve Bank on Thursday appointed Jammu & Kashmir Bank as the lead banker for the newly carved out union territory of Jammu...

‘2 Pak soldiers killed along LoC’

Islamabad: The Pakistan Army on Thursday said that two of its soldiers were killed in firing by the Indian troops along the Line of...

No let up in protests in Assam

Guwahati: Protests against the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 continued unabated across Assam on Thursday, primarily under the aegis of student bodies AASU and...

Left parties announce 7-day nationwide protests from Jan 1

New Delhi: The Left parties on Thursday announced a seven-day nationwide protest from January 1 to 7 and a general strike on January 8...

Army chief criticises those involved in violent protests

NEW DELHI: Army chief Gen Bipin Rawat on Thursday criticised people leading violent protests over the new citizenship law, saying leadership is not about...

Shelling along Kathua border

Jammu: Pakistani rangers shelled mortars and fired at forward areas along the International Border (IB) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district all through Tuesday...

Citizenship Law: Notices served to 60 in UP for property damages

Rampur/Gorakhpur (UP): Over 60 people have been “identified for violence” during last week’s anti-citizenship law protests in Rampur and Gorakhpur and issued notices, asking...

NPR will serve as database for NRC: Arundhati Roy

New Delhi: Author-activist Arundhati Roy on Wednesday claimed that the National Population Register (NPR) will serve as a database for the NRC and asked...

Such suppression of dissent not seen even in colonial period: Irfan Habib

Aligarh: Noted historian Irfan Habib on Wednesday said it would be wrong to look upon the recent outburst of public sentiments against the Citizenship...

Over 7,000 troops withdrawn from Kashmir

New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry has ordered “immediate” withdrawal of over 7,000 paramilitary troops from Kashmir after a security review, officials said on...

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