Srinagar: National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Saturday expressed hope that External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s upcoming visit to Islamabad for the SCO meeting would mark the start of a better relationship between India and Pakistan. India on Friday announced that Jaishankar will travel to Pakistan to attend a conclave of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation […]
Srinagar: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha has said that law and order in Jammu and Kashmir will stay with the LG Administration and the “security forces will have complete freedom to give befitting reply to those challenging unity and integrity of the nation.” “As far as security situation is concerned, the LG Administration will see the […]
Chairs Crime, Security review meeting Srinagar: IGP Kashmir V.K. Birdi (IPS) chaired a crime and security review meeting of Kashmir Zone here on Saturday. According to a statement, the meeting was attended by all the range DIsG, district SSsP and other senior officers. At the outset, it said, IGP Kashmir took an overall assessment of […]
Calls for immediate arrest of Narsinghanand SRINAGAR; The Mutahida Majlis Ulema (MMU), led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and representing all major religious organizations in the valley, has strongly condemned the derogatory remarks made by Mahant Narsinghanand regarding the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). “Such blasphemous statements are completely unacceptable to Muslims and to all […]
Srinagar: Lieutenant General Prashant Srivastava on Saturday assumed command of the strategically important Srinagar-based Chinar Corps, which manages the country’s border with Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, besides fighting terrorists in the Valley. Lt Gen Srivastava took charge from Lt Gen Rajiv Ghai, who will assume command as the director general of military operations at the Army headquarters, […]
JAMMU: Divisional Commissioner Jammu, Ramesh Kumar on Saturday chaired a meeting to review the preparedness and preventive measures for Dengue in districts of Jammu Division. Director Health Services, Jammu, Director ULB, Deputy Commissioners, CMOs, State Malarialogist, representatives of municipalities and concerned attended the meeting. The meeting discussed the ongoing efforts, preparedness and measures for prevention […]
Srinagar: The CEO J&K Office has directed all the District Election Officers (DEOs) to stop one increment of those employees who were found campaigning for political parties during the recently conducted assembly elections after thorough scrutiny of the complaints filed against them. “…cases of all the employees against whom the complaints of involvement in election […]
Kishtwar: A government school teacher was suspended for allegedly resorting to corporal punishment to a student in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district, officials said on Saturday. Anayatullah Ahanger, posted at Primary School Gowarian Dhar in remote Inderwal area, was placed under immediate suspension after a video purportedly showing a student subjected to corporal punishment went […]
MENDHAR/JAMMU: An army personnel allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service rifle in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Saturday, officials said. Uttarakhand native Sepoy Manish Bisht was on sentry duty at a post in Behrote in Balakote sector when he took the extreme step, the officials said. They said police have started […]
SRINAGAR: To create awareness around increasing incidences of breast cancer in Jammu & Kashmir, Fortis Hospital, Gurugram today organized an awareness programme in Srinagar’s Dal Lake. Around 150 Shikaras were tied up with pink ribbons in the Dal Lake, 2000 pink balloons were flown in the air, Local Kashmiri folk dance by local artists were […]