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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Jammu: The Congress, National Conference and PDP on Friday strongly opposed the nomination of five MLAs before the government formation in Jammu and Kashmir, labelling any such move as an assault on democracy and the fundamental principles of the Constitution. For the first time in J&K, five nominated Members of Legislative Assembly (MLAs) will have […]
Srinagar: National Conference (NC) vice president Omar Abdullah Friday asked bureaucrats in Jammu and Kashmir to resist any pressure to “further disempower” the incoming elected government. “The BJP has clearly accepted defeat in J-K. Why else would the chief secretary be assigned the duty to change transaction of business rules of the government to curtail […]
Srinagar: The National Conference (NC) on Friday said it was not in touch with any political party other than INDIA bloc constituents for government formation in Jammu and Kashmir. The party’s clarification came amid speculation that it was engaged in backchannel deliberations with the BJP for government formation in the union territory. “The JKNC categorically […]
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will be travelling to Pakistan to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) conclave. India announced on Friday that Jaishankar would lead the delegation from the country. Pakistan is hosting the SCO Council of Heads of Government (CHG) meeting on October 15 and 16. Jaishankar is the first Indian […]
NEW DELHI: India has consistently advocated for a peaceful resolution to disputes and has sought to promote cooperation among nations in the Indo-Pacific, with a strong emphasis on the centrality of ASEAN, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Friday. His remarks come amid China’s increasing military muscle-flexing in the region. In his address at the […]