Jammu: The government has approved withdrawal of cases registered against 9,730 people involved in stone-pelting incidents, including first-time offenders, between 2008 and 2017, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said Saturday.The government action to withdraw 1,745 cases is subject to “certain conditions” and is based on recommendations of a committee constituted to look into the matter, Mufti […]
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Srinagar: Minimum temperatures in the Kashmir Valley and the Ladakh region on Saturday plummeted further due to clear overnight sky, a Met official said.Srinagar city recorded a minimum temperature of minus 1.5, Pahalgam minus 4.2 and Gulmarg minus 7 degrees Celsius.At minus 13, Kargil was the coldest town in Jammu and Kashmir as Leh recorded […]
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Srinagar: With government acknowledging the fact that there has been a surge in cancer cases in the state, the ways of tackling it, so far, have not proven fruitful, with govt’s cancer outreach programme standing as a colossal failure across the state.Cancer outreach programme that was started several years ago in collaboration with SKIMS was […]
New Delhi: The National Investigating Agency (NIA) has claimed that Pakistan is offering scholarships to Kashmiri students who were either relatives of militants or those known to Hurriyat leaders.According to the charge sheet filed in the court, the NIA said that their visa applications were recommended to the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi by […]
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir unit of the BJP said today it would press for early panchayat polls at the all party meeting to be chaired by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti tomorrow.Minister for Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Law and Justice, Abdul Haq Khan, said yesterday the meeting was called with an to seek views of […]