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Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha Monday reached out to protesting Kashmiri Pandits (KPs) at Sheikhpora, Budgam and stated that in the past few years security forces were having upper hand ‘but’ even shadows are suspects in Kashmir. He, however, was quick that the roots of militancy have been strong in the Valley and besides that the eco-system that provided oxygen to it remained ticking but his government is committed to root-out militancy from Kashmir soil. As per the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), addressing agitating Kashmiri Pandits at Sheikhpora area of Central Kashmir’s Budgam district, Sinha said security forces in Kashmir have been having an upper hand in the Valley. “But we can’t even trust shadows as for us, even shadows are suspects…,” he said. “Who knows someone am...

Twelve passengers, including five children, trapped inside an overturned mini-bus following an accident were rescued by the Army and provided necessary medical assistance here, a defence spokesperson said on Tuesday.ar Two passenger mini-buses collided with each other on the Shyok-Durbuk road on Monday, following which one of the vehicles turned turtle, he said. The spokesperson said a team of 12 soldiers of the Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry (JAKLI) returning from Durbukh witnessed the accident. “As first responders, the team immediately swung into action and evacuated the trapped civilians from the bus and also provided first-aid,” he said, adding that there was mo loss of life in the accident. A second quick-reaction team, along with an ambulance, was also sent from the ba...

A 53-year old man ended his life by jumping into the river Jehlum at Budshah Bridge of Kashmir capital Srinagar. Family sources of the victim told news agency Kashmir News Trust that he jumped into the river during the intervening night. The victim whose body has yet to be retrieved has been identified as Nisar Ahmed Mughal son of Late Habibullah Mughal, a resident of Maharaja Bazar Srinagar. The victims was currently living in Natipora area of Srinagar outskirts. SDRF and River Police have already launched an operation to retrieve the body of the elderly man. (KNT

Administration on Monday ordered removal from services of Naveen Jamwal, Civil Judge (junior division) with immediate effect. According to an order passed by the order of Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, the action against Jamwal follows recommendations of the Full court of High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. “The Lieutenant Governor is pleased to order the removal of Naveen Jamwal, Civil Judge (junior division)/Munsiff from service with immediate effect,” the order, a copy of which lies with GNS, reads. (GNS)

Kashmir's Grand Mufti, Nasir-ul-Azam on Saturday called for social boycott with those involved in drug menace stating that the growing drug abuse is proving a rot in the society and ruining the lives of youngsters. Talking to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Mufti Nasir-ul-Islam welcomed the Amarnath Yatries to Kashmir and also said that the communal hatred must not be spread through the statement by any community. “We must rise to the occasion as a collective society to go for social boycott with the drug dealers and addicts. Young boys are fast falling prey to growing drug abuse. This is proving as a rot in the society and it’s high time we must act to save our young generation,” Islam said. He also called for social boycott with the people involved in drug dealing and ...

The Legal Metrology department today seized and registered cases against two petrol pumps for delivering a shorter quantity of fuel to the consumers. In one of the cases, it was observed that 6 Nozzles of a Petrol Pump located on National Highway at  Srinagar were delivering short fuel by about 30 ml against every 5 Litres. All the Nozzles of the outlet  were seized on spot and the case was  registered under section 30 of Legal Metrology Act, 2009. The department has earlier received a complaint from the consumers in which it was alleged that few Petrol Pumps across Srinagar  were indulging in unfair trade practices and were looting Consumers by using various tricks against them. The LMD soon inspected various Outlets during which two Petrol Pumps were found violating the Law and whe...

A few students of Government Gandhi Memorial College on Friday recited Hanuman Chalisa in protest against the use of loudspeakers by a local mosque in Jammu, officials said. However, police later stopped them from reciting Hanuman Chalisa and detained half-a-dozen students, though they were later let free. The students alleged that they were studying in classrooms, and there was the use of loudspeakers by a local mosque which created "noise pollution" and triggered the student who later staged protests stating that there was a "disturbance" to their studies at the GGM College. The students also alleged that the failure of authorities to stop the usage of Loudspeakers which forced them (students) to chanting of 'Hanuman Chalisa'. The Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) on Tuesday ...

Rescuers have retrieved the body of another worker near Khoni Nallah area of Ramban after part of a tunnel collapsed while search continues for others who are trapped, officials said Saturday. "Second body retrieved from debris site at Khooni Nallah. Identity will be ascertained. Body being shifted to District Hospital", Deputy Commissioner, Ramban, Mussarat Islam said in a tweet. On Friday (May 20) evening, landslide, prompted the authorities to suspend the rescue operation. It could not be resumed until this morning due to shooting of stones from the hillock, heavy rains and strong winds, officials said. With the improvement in the weather condition, the rescue operation resumed with the first light of the day with authorities pressing three earth movers and rock-breakers to rea...

Weatherman on Saturday said that a brief spell of rain and thunderstorm “may” occur at scattered places of Jammu and Kashmir mainly towards late afternoon and evening even as temperature recorded a drop. “Currently weather is generally cloudy at most places of Kashmir, hilly areas of Jammu and fair to partly cloudy in plains of Jammu,” an official of the local meteorological department here said. Heat wave, he said, abated from J&K, although temporarily. “A brief spell of rain/thunderstorm may occur at scattered places of Jammu and Kashmir mainly towards late afternoon/evening,” he said, adding, “Widespread rain/thunderstorm accompanied by gusty winds is most likely in Kashmir on May 22nd and on 23rd in Jammu region.” From May 25th till ending May, he said, mainly “dry and hot we...

Pakistan has summoned India’s Charge d’Affaires here to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and handed over a demarche to him conveying Islamabad’s strong condemnation of the framing of “fabricated charges” against Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik. The Pakistan Foreign Office, in a late-night statement on Wednesday, said that Kashmiri Hurriyat leader Malik is currently imprisoned in Delhi's Tihar jail. “The Indian diplomat was conveyed Pakistan’s grave concern that in a bid to suppress the voice of the indigenous Kashmiri leadership, the Indian government has resorted to implicating them in fictitious and motivated cases,” it said. The Indian side was also conveyed Pakistan’s deep concern over Malik’s incarceration in Tihar Jail since 2019 under “inhuman conditions”, it said. ...