Mehbooba Mufti stopped from meeting families of 3 civilians killed in Poonch, holds protest
Poonch/Jammu: Police on Saturday stopped PDP president Mehbooba Mufti from meeting the families of three people found dead a day after being picked up for questioning by the Army following a terror attack in Poonch last week, her colleagues said. On December 21, four soldiers were killed and three others injured in an ambush on […]
Crime Branch chargesheets Nagpur-based man for Rs 1.70-crore fraud
Jammu: The Crime Branch police on Saturday filed a chargesheet against a resident of Maharashtra for allegedly cheating a businessman of Rs 1.70 crore on the pretext of supplying food grains in 2019, an official said. The Economic Offences Wing of the Crime Branch, Jammu, presented a 504-page chargesheet in a court here against accused […]
Very little said about 4.5 lakh displaced KPs because they were not “big electorate”: Ex-SC judge Kaul
New Delhi: Very little was said about the 4.5 lakh Kashmiri Pandits who got displaced from the Valley with the advent of separatist militancy, possibly because they were not “such a big electorate” as to invite “political intervention”, former Supreme Court judge Sanjay Kishan Kaul has said. Justice Kaul, who was part of the bench […]
LG hands over job letter to slain soldier’s wife
Jammu: Lt Governor Manoj Sinha on Saturday handed over an appointment letter to the wife of Havaldar Abdul Majid, a para-commando who was among five troopers killed in a fierce gunfight with terrorists in Rajouri district last month. Sinha handed over the government job letter to Majid’ wife Sagera Bi at Raj Bhawan. The family […]
DGP Swain vows to wipe out terrorism from Rajouri-Poonch belt
Jammu: Admitting to the presence of foreign terrorists in the woods of Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri-Poonch belt, Director General of Police RR Swain on Saturday said security agencies are committed to wiping out terrorism from the south of the Pir Panjal region. The terrorists are operating from hideouts deep inside the forests, with the support […]
Farooq Abdullah pushes for early polls in J&K
Poonch: National Conference president Dr. Farooq Abdullah on Saturday questioned the delay in the restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir and holding Assembly elections there, saying that people in the Union Territory want an elected government at the earliest. According to ANI, the former chief minister also extended New Year greetings to people, wishing […]
Cop dies of suspected cardiac arrest in Anantnag
Srinagar: A cop died of suspected cardiac arrest in south Kashmir’s Anantnag on Saturday morning, an official said. Quoting an official, the news agency Kashmir Scroll reported that Head Constable Mohammad Jabbar Dar of Sagam Kokernag, presently posted at District Court Anantnag, was found lying unconscious at his home. “The cop was taken to a […]
Drug peddler booked under PIT-NDPS Act in Kulgam
Srinagar: Police in Kulgam have booked a “notorious” drug peddler under PIT-NDPS Act after obtaining formal detention orders from the competent authority, a police spokesman informed Saturday. He said the “habitual offender and notorious drug peddler” Dilawar Javid Bhat, son of Javid Ahmad Bhat of Monghal, Anantnag, has been detained and subsequently lodged in Central […]
Special plantation drive launched in Doda to increase green cover
Bhaderwah: A special plantation drive ‘Green Earth, Happy Earth’ to increase the green cover was launched at famous high-altitude tourist destinations in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district, an official said on Saturday. Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Chander Shekhar along with officials of Chirala and Neeru range of the Bhadarwah forest division launched the drive to […]
India logs 743 Covid cases
New Delhi: India on Saturday recorded 743 fresh COVID-19 infections while the number of active cases stood at 3,997, the Union health ministry said. Seven new fatalities — three from Kerala, two from Karnataka and one each from Chhattisgarh and Tamil Nadu — were reported in a span of 24 hours, according to the ministry’s […]
