Submission date for Hajj forms extended

Submission date for Hajj forms extended

Srinagar: The J&K Haj Committee has extended the last date for submission of online Haj Application Forms (HAFs) for Haj – 2025 up to 23rd September, 2024. As per an official communication, the J&K Haj Committee has informed that applicants possessing machine readable valid Indian International Passports issued on or before 23rd September, 2024 and […]

Money laundering: ED makes third arrest

Money laundering: ED makes third arrest

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate said on Tuesday that it has made a fresh arrest in an alleged narco-terrorism-linked money laundering case related to the “funding” of banned terrorist group Hizb-Ul-Mujahideen. Laddi Ram was taken into custody on Monday and was produced before a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Jammu that […]

Assembly Polls: 239 in fray for penultimate phase

Assembly Polls: 239 in fray for penultimate phase

Jammu: On the last day of the withdrawal of nomination papers for the second phase of the forthcoming Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Elections 2024 in the 26 Assembly Constituencies, 27 candidates withdrew their Candidature in the Office of respective Returning Officers across six districts on Monday, leaving 239 candidates in the final poll fray. The […]

Will restore Article 370 ‘even if it takes years’: Farooq

Will restore Article 370 ‘even if it takes years’: Farooq

Srinagar: National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah Monday said the restoration of Article 370 is the voice of people of Jammu and Kashmir, and asserted the special provision of the erstwhile state would definitely be restored even if it might take many years. Abdullah’s remarks came a day after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said restoring […]

NC-Cong will form govt in JK: Omar

NC-Cong will form govt in JK: Omar

Banihal: National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah on Monday exuded confidence that his party along with its coalition partner Congress is all set to form the next government in Jammu and Kashmir. Addressing an election rally in support of party candidate Sajjad Shaheen in this assembly segment of Ramban district, Abdullah lashed out at Congress […]

AIP BJP’s Proxy: Mehbooba, Asks Who’s Funding It

AIP BJP’s Proxy: Mehbooba, Asks Who’s Funding It

Anantnag, Sept 9: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Monday accused jailed MP Sheikh Abdul Rashid’s Awami Ittehad Party of being a proxy of the BJP, and warned the people of Jammu and Kashmir not to come under the influence of such parties. Her remarks came a day after PDP candidate from south Kashmir’s Shopian assembly […]

Cong disassociates itself from Wani’s remarks against NC

Cong disassociates itself from Wani’s remarks against NC

Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) Monday disassociated itself from the “derogatory remarks” made by senior party leader Vikar Rasool Wani against its alliance partner National Conference (NC). JKPCC president Tariq Hameed Karra strongly condemns the derogatory remarks and unparliamentary language used by Congress leader and its candidate from Banihal, Vikar Rasool […]

BJP freed JK from clutches of terrorism: Anurag Thakur

BJP freed JK from clutches of terrorism: Anurag Thakur

Jammu: Former Union minister and BJP MP Anurag Thakur on Monday said his party freed Jammu and Kashmir from the clutches of terrorism and guaranteed peace, prosperity and development in the region. “In Jammu and Kashmir, BJP means ‘rahat’ (comfort) and NC-Congress means ‘aafat’ (trouble). The NC-Congress alliance can only bring destruction and miseries for […]

Infiltration bid thwarted, 2 infiltrators killed in Rajouri

Infiltration bid thwarted, 2 infiltrators killed in Rajouri

Rajouri/Jammu: Two heavily armed terrorists were killed in a gunfight with the security forces along the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district, officials on Monday. The gunfight broke out in the Laam area of the Nowshera sector late on Sunday night after alert Army troops noticed terrorists trying to sneak into this side from […]

CEO kick starts plantation drive under Green Election initiative

CEO kick starts plantation drive under Green Election initiative

Jammu, September 09: In order to achieve the target of planting above one lakh plants under the ‘Green Election’ initiative of Election Commission of India (ECI) during the J&K Assembly Elections 2024, the Office of Chief Electoral Officer, J&K, in collaboration with J&K Forest Department organised a plantation drive in the premises of Model Higher […]