Div Com urges employees to have Golden Card before 1st March

Golden Cards issued to over 16 lakh families in J&K: Officials

Srinagar: The Divisional Commissioner (Div Com) Kashmir, Pandurang K Pole Saturday emphasized upon all Deputy Commissioners to ensure that all employees along with their families are enrolled under Ayushman Bharat- Golden Card scheme. Chairing a meeting with Deputy Commissioners; MD NHM; Director Health Services Kashmir; Incharge Divisional Covid Control Room, Kashmir, and other officers, to […]

PAGD issues White Paper on abrogation of J&K’s special status

Says, delimitation exercise being done in unconstitutional manner

Srinagar: Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) on Saturday rolled out a white paper on abrogation of J&K’s special status. Titled “The Betrayal”, the white paper on what PAGD describes as “Assault on the Autonomy of Jammu & Kashmir”, dwells in detail about the politics concerning Jammu and Kashmir – the conditions under which it […]

NC will contest elections whenever they are held: Farooq Abdullah

Srinagar: National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Saturday said his party will contest elections whenever they are held in Jammu and Kashmir but remained critical of the ongoing delimitation exercise. He was speaking after the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), comprising five mainstream political parties of Jammu and Kashmir, met at his residence here […]

J&K logs 84 new COVID-19 cases

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday registered 84 new positive cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19),  while no fresh virus-related death was reported in the last 24 hours, officials said. Of the fresh cases, they said 63 were reported from Jammu division and 21 from Kashmir division — taking the total number of positive cases detected […]

Jammu-Srinagar national highway closed for traffic

LMV traffic to resume today subject to road condition

Banihal: Fresh snowfall and multiple landslides at different places on Saturday forced the closure of the 270 km Jammu-Srinagar national highway, officials said. The Banihal-Qazigund sector of the highway experienced overnight snowfall while landslides and shooting of stones from the hillocks were triggered by heavy rains at Rompadi-Banihal, Shalgardh-Wagan, Moumpassi-Ramsu, Panthiyal, Digdole, Maroog, Monkey Morh, […]

PoK will be part of India at appropriate time: Former Army officer

Ahmedabad: Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) will become a part of India “at an appropriate time” as the country is bound by its Parliamentary resolution to this effect, Lieutenant General KJS Dhillon (retired) said here on Saturday. Dhillon, who commanded XV Corps of the Army when the 2019 Pulwama attack took place, was here to speak […]

500 officers trained in special investigation skills: DGP

Jammu: Around 500 officers were trained in special investigation skills during capacity-building programmes, Director General of Police Dilbag Singh has said, asserting that the training would help in dealing with terror cases and those of special nature. He was speaking at the three-day capacity-building training programme of the Jammu and Kashmir Police and prosecuting officers […]

Two Lolab residents ‘planning to join militant ranks’ arrested: Police

Srinagar: Police on Saturday arrested two men in Lolab area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara, saying they were “planning to join militant ranks”. News agency KNO quoted a police spokesman as saying that the accused identified as Rashid Ahmad Peer, son of Abdul Ahad Peer of Tekipora, Lolab, and Adil Hussain Shah, son of Ghulam Muhammad […]

ACB files charge-sheet against Patwari in graft case

Jammu: Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Saturday filed a charge-sheet in a local court in Doda against a revenue official who was caught accepting a bribe of Rs 5,000 in Kishtwar district about five years ago, an official said. The charge-sheet was filed against the then Patwari, Chatroo block, Toufeeq Ahmad in the court of special […]