Fresh snowfall pushes mercury up in Kashmir

Air traffic disrupted, restored; 14 flights cancelled

Srinagar: Most parts of Kashmir received fresh snowfall on Wednesday, resulting in significant improvement in the minimum temperature across the Valley and providing huge relief to residents. The snowfall began during the night and continued at many places when last reports came in, the officials said. The snowfall affected the flight operations at Srinagar airport […]

Religious Conversion: SC refuses to entertain plea challenging laws

New Delhi:  The Supreme Court Wednesday refused to entertain a plea challenging the validity of laws enacted by states, including Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, which deal with religious conversion by marriage and others. A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde, while saying that the petitioner should approach the concerned high court, observed that […]

Abrogation of Article 370 fully integrated J&K, Ladakh into Indian mainstream: Govt

 ‘430 out of 613 detained after abrogation released, no one under house-arrest’

New Delhi: The Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh have been fully integrated into the mainstream of the nation after the abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of the erstwhile state, Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy told Parliament on Wednesday. He told Rajya Sabha that as many as 613 […]

Restore J&K’s statehood and then hold Assembly elections: Azad to government

New Delhi:  Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday asked the government to bring a bill in Rajya Sabha proposing restoration of statehood for Jammu and Kashmir. Speaking during the Motion of Thanks to the President’s Address, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Azad said, “I appeal to you, if Jammu and Kashmir has […]

Mehbooba alleges Para kept under ‘inhuman conditions and tortured’

Police say remarks 'unfortunate'

Srinagar: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday claimed her party’s youth wing president Waheed Para, arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir Police last month, was being kept under “inhuman conditions and tortured” to compel him to admit to false indictment, a charge denied by the police as “unfortunate”. The former chief minister of Jammu and […]

Man held for duping youth, running job racket

ACB registers disproportionate assets case against former AEE

Jammu/ Srinagar: The Crime Branch of the Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday arrested a man for allegedly forging government appointment orders to cheat unemployed youth in the union territory, officials said. Manzoor Hussain Qadri along with co-accused Mushtaq Ahmed Ganai and Fayaz Ahmed Dar used to lure unemployed youth on the pretext of arranging […]

Register as a cyber crime volunteer: Police

Jammu: J&K Police on Wednesday urged the people to register as “cyber crime volunteers” under the framework of Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) programme — Cyber Crime Volunteer Framework — which can be accessed on URL http://Cybercrime.gov.in. Under this the initiative, according to a police press release here, any Indian citizen can get himself/herself associated […]

NRA to start conducting online test for govt jobs from Sep: Jitendra Singh

New Delhi: The National Recruitment Agency (NRA) would start conducting online test for select category of government jobs from September, Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh said on Wednesday. The NRA will conduct the Common Eligibility Test (CET) to screen/shortlist candidates for jobs in government sector for which recruitment is currently carried out through […]

China’s attempts to transgress LAC since May last met with appropriate response: Govt

New Delhi:  The Chinese military attempted to transgress the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in several areas since May last but these efforts were invariably met with an appropriate response from the Indian side, the government said in Lok Sabha on Wednesday. To address the issues arising out of such attempts, Minister of State for […]