CB arrests top officer for fudging birth record
Srinagar: Crime Branch Kashmir has lodged an FIR against Commissioner/Secretary to the Government, ARI and Trainings Mohammad Mehraj-ud-din Khan, for resorting to the change of date of birth in his Service records. According to a Crime Branch spokesman, it received a communication from Government through General Administration Department stating that as per the available records […]
Normalcy returns to Valley after two days
Srinagar, Sep 01: Life returned to normal in Kashmir Valley Saturday after two days of strike called by separatists against the legal challenge to Article 35-A of the Constitution. Business establishments, shops, schools and colleges opened in the Valley after two days of strike. Separatists had called for a two-day strike against the legal challenge […]
CJM orders further probe in Gogoi case; seeks report by Sept 18
Srinagar, Sep 01: A local court here on Saturday directed further investigations in the case involving Army officer Major Leetul Gogoi fraternising with a local woman and asked police to submit a report by September 18. The court of Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Srinagar also observed that the investigations into the case have been conducted […]
NC emerges single largest party in hung verdict of LAHDC Kargil
Srinagar, Sep 01: The Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) Kargil polls have thrown up a hung house with the National Conference (NC) emerging as the single largest party. No party was able to get a clear majority in the polls. Farooq Abdullah-led NC emerged as the single largest party with 10 seats in the […]
HC asks R&B dept to submit complete details of work done so far
Delay in road-widening from Dalgate to Hazratbal…
Srinagar, Sep 01: The J&K High Court today directed the Roads and Buildings (R&B) department (Kashmir) to submit details of the steps taken for widening of the road between Dalgate and Hazratbal area of the city. Hearing a petition complaining of unwarranted delay in executing the road widening from Dalgate to Hazratbal, a bench comprising […]
Cop held on trespassing charges in Baramulla
Srinagar, Sep 01: A cop has been arrested in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on allegations of house trespass and intentions to insult the modesty of a woman, police said on Saturday. “During evening hours at about 2200 hours (yesterday) Zameer Ahmad Dar, a resident of Ushkara Baramulla (in north Kashmir) was found in suspicious circumstances […]
CB to probe Kupwara minor boy’s murder
Srinagar, Sep 01: Government has asked the Crime Branch of police to investigate the killing of a minor boy Umar Farooq, who was killed under mysterious conditions in Kupwara month-and-half back. Reports said that after locals demand that there should be an impartial probe in the killing of the minor of Gulgam Kupwara, the case […]
Searches launched at Tral hospital
Srinagar, Sep 01: Government forces today launched cordon and search operation at Sub-District Hospital Tral in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. An official said that joint team of police, Army’s 42 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) and 180 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) have launched the operation in the area following specific inputs about the presence of militants […]
DRI seizes heroin worth Rs 9 cr in Jammu
Jammu, Sep 01: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has arrested two men and seized heroin worth Rs 9 crore being smuggled into Kashmir from across the border, according to an official statement issued Saturday. On the basis of inputs, DRI sleuths intercepted a car at Ban Toll Plaza near Nagrota here on Thursday, the […]
11 persons injured in road accident
Srinagar, Sep 01: Eleven passengers were injured after a vehicle met with an accident at Kaltha area of Tanghdar in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district Saturday afternoon. GNS news agency quoted Station House Officer (SHO), Tanghdar, Nasir Ahmad as saying that a Sumo cab (JK09A-4219) skidded off the road and rolled down 20 ft deep gorge […]
