Amid cloud cover and rains at some places, night temperature recorded an increase in Jammu and Kashmir with only Gulmarg and Pahalgam registering below freezing temperature. A meteorological department told GNS Srinagar, the summer capital of the J&K, recorded a low of 2.8°C against last night’s minus 1.6°C, he said. There was rainfall in traces during the last 24 hours till 0830 hours today, the official said. Qazigund, the gateway town of Kashmir, recorded a low of 1.2°C against minus 3.3°C on the previous night, he said. Kokernag, also in south Kashmir, had a low of 0.1°C against minus 4.9°C on the previous night, the official said. Pahalgam, the famous resort in south Kashmir, recorded a low of minus 3.7°C against minus 11.3°C last night, he said. Gulmarg recorded a ...

Police on Saturday claimed to have busted a Narco- Militancy module by arresting two people along with contraband worth Rupees 18 crore in North Kashmir's Baramulla district. In a statement to GNS, the police said that today on 5th Feb police party of Police Station Uri and Police Post Kamalkote headed by SHO Police station Uri were patrolling the area from Dachi towards Basgran. During the patrolling two vehicles Celero-X bearing registration No. JK09C-1584 and Alto bearing registration No. JK05G-0247 were found on a link road towards Dachi in a suspicious condition. Police patrolling party moved towards the vehicles, but the drivers of both the vehicles saw the Police patrolling party and tried to flee away from the spot however due to the timely action of Police party, both the perso...

Various political factions including the People's Conference, All Parties Hurriyat Conference and Dal Khalsa strongly condemned the arrest of Journalist Fahad Shah. The All Parties Hurriyat Conference, on Saturday, released a statement condemning "policy of use of force and intimidation by the authorities to silence voices that report facts and are critical of those in power by clubbing them as 'anti-national.'" The Hurriyat also iterated that it had been two and a half years since Mirwaiz Umar Farooq's detention. Referring to the arrest of Journalist Fahad Shah, the APHC asked the authorities "to reconsider this authoritarian approach and release Fahad and all other journalists who are languishing in jails for doing their duty." APHC asked the Government of India to release th...

One person was killed and three others injured as a scuffle broke out over a land dispute in Fatehpur village in Rajouri on Saturday evening. Reports reaching GNS said the scuffle broke out between two families over some land dispute. The sides came to blows and used sharp-edged weapons to attack each other, leading to injuries to four persons. The injured were evacuated to a nearby health facility where one Mohammad Hafiz (45) son of Hakim Din was declared as brought dead on arrival, officials told GNS. The other three persons having sustained injuries in the incident were identified as Ghafoor Choudhary, Mohd Sharif and Sayeed Ahmed. The trio on receiving initial treatment at the nearby health facility were shifted to GMC Rajouri for preferential treatment. SSP Rajouri Mohamm...

CPI(M) leader Mohamad Yousuf Tarigami on Saturday said that the Jammu and Kashmir government’s decision to withdraw all the posts advertised by prime recruiting agencies JKSSB and JKPSC before October 2019 is rather unfortunate as the move has dashed the hopes of hundreds of job aspirants. The government's decision came at a time when the unemployment graph in the region has significantly shot up. The Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) recently pegged the unemployment rate in Jammu and Kashmir at 22.2 percent, which is the highest in the country. The decision will turn hundreds of applicants ineligible for the government jobs who crossed the upper age limit in the same year. The move reeks of the government's plot of making non-permanent residents eligible for the governm...