REGIONAL

Five persons including three Army personnel were injured after an Army vehicle collided with a load carrier in North Kashmir's Handwara. The collision took place in Ganapora area of Kralgund. Local sources told news agency Kashmir News Trust that there was a head on collision between a load carrier (JK09C-7067) and an Army vehicle. Both the vehicles suffered damage while 5 persons including 3 troopers sustained injuries. Two civilians injured in the accident have been identified as Nazir Ahmed Wani of Mandigam and Irfan Ahmed Reshi, a resident of Shanoo village of Handwara. Police in this regard have taken cognizance and registered a case under relevant sections of law. (KNT)

The dead body of a girl, who went missing from JK’s Samba district, was recovered by police on Monday in Ludhiana city of Punjab. Police sources said that a girl studying in Samba degree college did not reach home on Saturday in Madkola village in Sumb area of Samba district. “The family lodged a missing report. Today the body was recovered from Ludhiana by Punjab Police, who made the identification from the identity card of the deceased,” sources said. When the body reached Samba on Monday, agitated family members, relatives and neighbours blocked the Jammu-Pathankot national highway. Authorities were seen trying to pacify the agitators. (IANS)

Four residential houses were partially damaged in a fire incident in Nundresh Colony A in Bemina area of Srinagar this afternoon. Reports said that four residential houses belonging to Ghulam Qadir Sheikh, Mohd Maqbool Bala and Tariq Ahmad Bala, Nasir Ahmad Farooqi, Abdul Ahad Lone and Parveena Akhtar were partially damaged after fire broke out from a residential house in Nundresh Colony A. They said that F&ES with the help of police and locals doused off the flames to prevent any further damages. Meanwhile, police have taken cognizance of the incident and investigation was underway to ascertain the cause of fir. (KNO)

National Conference President Dr. Farooq Abdullah presided over the ‘All Party Meeting’ that was called to deliberate upon the inclusion of 25 lakh non-local voters in Jammu Kashmir. According to the local news Agency, Kashmir News Trust, The meeting was attended by Muhammad Yousuf Tarigami, Omar Abdullah, Mehbooba Mufti, Vikar Rasool, and Hasnain Masoodi, Muzafar Shah, Ali Muhammad Sagar, Raman Bhalla and others. Besides NC, PDP and Congress, the representatives of Janata Dal-United and Shiv Sena were also present in the meeting. PAGD spokesperson, Muhammad Yousuf Tarigami issued a press statement after the culmination of the meeting which read that they reject the inclusion of non-local voters and want to meet LG Manoj Sinha. The statement further read that they wanted to meet LG j...

A special court here on Monday offered legal aid to JKLF chief Yasin Malik, but he turned it down and again insisted on his physical appearance in the hearing on the killing of four Indian Air Force (IAF) personnel in 1990, PTI reported. Malik appeared in the hearing via video conference from Delhi’s Tihar Jail where he is currently lodged, standing counsel for the CBI Monika Kohli said. Malik, 56, is serving a life sentence in a 'terror-funding' case. After the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief declined the offer of legal aid, the court asked him to submit his stand in writing on the next date of hearing in the third week of September, Kohli said. Turning down his plea for physical appearance, the court said there were clear directions from the high court for produc...

The Economic Offence Wing of Crime Branch on Monday produced a charge sheet against a man in case pertaining to cheating and grabbing money of a man on pretext of providing admission to his daughter in PG course outside JK. According to a statement, issued to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), the Economic Offence Wing produced Challan against Wiqar Manzoor Wani S/o Manzoor Ahmad Wani R/o Lidderwan Trehgam Kupwara in Case FIR No. 54 of 2018 U/S 420 RPC of Police Station Economic Offences Wing before the Court of Judge Small Causes Srinagar. The statement reads that the case pertains to the cheating and grabbing complainant hard earned money on the pretext of providing admission to his daughter in PG course outside the state. “The case has been registered upon receipt of ...

Police on Monday claimed to have solved Twin burglary cases and recovered property In Mirgund as well in Palhallan area of North Kashmir's Baramulla district. In a handout to GNS, the police said that an investigation was set into motion after a case was registered under case FIR No. 240/2022 u/s 457, 380 IPC of Police Station Pattan. As informed, the incident took place at Bhat Colony Mirgund Pattan in which household items were taken away by the burglars. The investigating team led by Inspector Irshad Ahmad, IC PP Mirgund, after strenuous efforts led to arrest of three burglars namely Aijaz Ahmad Malla son of Gh Mohd Malla, Syed Ubaid Shah son of Syed Mustafa Shah and Zaffar Hussain Wani son of Nisar Ahmad Wani all residents of Yakhmanpora Pattan, District Baramulla. The police spo...

Peoples Conference (PC) Chairman, Sajad Gani Lone on Monday said that he will attend the All Party Meeting, called by National Conference (NC) Dr Farooq Abdullah. Addressing a presser at his Srinagar residence, Lone said that he has been invited for the meeting today. “Politics apart, I have a lot of respect for Dr Farooq Abdullah. But the reality is that if the All Party meeting is taken seriously, the media would have no information about it,” he said, as per the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO). He further said that “how much we pretend that everything is alright. We have been abusing each other almost every day.” “I believe the outcome of the government move with regard to the voters will not change whether we attend the all party meeting or not,” he said, adding that “...

The Kashmir chapter of Britain-based charity organisation, ‘Who is Hussain’, is organizing blood donation camps across the three districts of Kashmir Valley as part of the organisation’s world-wide blood donation drive. As per news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), the blood donation camps will be set up at Imambargah Zadibal and Imam Bargah Ayatullah Yousuf Bemina here in Srinagar besides Markazi Imam Bargah Budgam and near Imam Bargah Gamdoo in Bandipora district on August 27. The non-profit organization has it’s chapters in 109 cities worldwide including Srinagar where around 25 volunteers have been tirelessly working in order to aware people about Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Hussain ibn Ali. The donation camp is part of the global campaign ‘Be a global blood hero’ being held...

Suspected militants hurled a grenade blast on Sunday evening in the Nishat area of Srinagar. According to Jammu Kashmir police two civilians were injured when militants hurled a grenade in the Nishat area of Srinagar, causing minor injuries to two civilians.o "A could of civilians received minor injuries, all were given first aid and all have been discharged from hospital," Police said. A Case has been registered to nab the culprit(s), police said.