Sheikh Nadeem Raksha Bandhan celebrated with traditional fervour across Jammu Kashmir on Sunday. A large number of people thronged several temples to pay their obeisance. Women were seen tying the sacred threads (Rakhis) on the wrists of their brothers. People who observed a fast on the occasion relished delicacies and sweets in the evening, specially prepared for the festival. "The festival carries a message of love and harmony, Raksha Badhan is also about family get-together and bonding," said Sanjay Raina, a Kashmiri Pandit of vessu Colony Qazigund. Raksha Bandhan was also celebrated at Veeran Pandit Colony Baramulla, sacred thread were tied on the wrists as a message of love and brotherhood. It was also celebrated with gaiety mattan Lukbawan etc of South kashmir's Anantn...

Amid “dearth of space” in jails of Jammu & Kashmir, the administration has declared three buildings as subsidiary jails in the Union Territory. Documents accessed by news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) reveal that the administration of the Union Territory has declared three buildings- two in south Kashmir and one in north Kashmir- as subsidiary jails. On July 29, 2021, the UT’s Home department issued three separate notifications to declare an equal number of buildings as subsidiary jails under The Prisoners Act-1900. According to the documents, the Home department has declared a building of Boys Pahari Hostel Kupwara as subsidiary jail. “In exercise of the powers conferred by clause(b) of section 2 of The Prisoners Act, 1900 and in suppression of Order No. 450 of 2021 date...

Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Tuesday trapped and arrested a Head Constable Muhammad Yousuf of Police Station Qazigund, Anantnag for accepting a bribe, an official communiqué said. An official spokesman in a statement issued to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) said that ACB received a complaint alleging therein that the complainant was granted conditional bail in an FIR lodged against him in Police Station Qazigund Anantnag by the competent court, which was expiring on 25-8-2021. “However, the Investigating Officer of the case Head Constable Muhammad Yousuf of Police Station Qazigund was demanding Rs 10000 from him for providing a favorable report to be submitted before the Court. The complainant requested the accused HC negotiated the deal for Rs 5000, which was demande...

Two outsiders from Delhi and Punjab have bought land in the Jammu district after the BJP government abrogated Article 370 and scrapped permanent residence laws. However, no outsider has purchased any land or house in Kashmir valley. As per official documents available with Srinagar based news agency Kashmir Dot Com (KDC), Neelam Gupta and Prashant Gupta of New Delhi have bought one Kanal land in Channi, Himmat in Jammu, while a Punjab resident, Bindu Verma and Veena Saraf have bought one Kanal land in Channi Biji in Jammu district. The land had been registered in their names in January this year. The owners who have sold the land to the two outsiders are residents of Jammu and Katra. As per documents, these two outsiders are the only non-residents who have applied for purchasin...

The body of a 45-year-old man was found lying in a field at Wangam Chadoora in central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Tuesday, officials said. The Police said that man has been identified as Riyaz Ahmad Rather (45) son of Asadullah Rather of Wangam Chadoora. A police party reached the spot and shifted the body to Chadoora Hospital. A police official confirming told GNS that the cause of death is being ascertained. (GNS)

‘Gold worth Rs 22 lacs, combat dresses, dummy weapons, cash recovered’ Jammu and Kashmir Police on Tuesday claimed to have busted a gang in Srinagar by arresting 10 persons involved in burglary, extortion and impersonating security forces by donning combat uniforms and dummy weapons. A police spokesman in a statement issued to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) said that on 05-05-2021, Police Station Parimpora received a written complaint from Muhammad Maqbool Bhat of Khawaja Bagh Maloora to the effect that during the intervening night some 6-8 unidentified gunmen wearing combat dress barged into his residential house and looted jewellery, cash and mobile phone. “Accordingly, a case vide FIR number 107/2021 under relevant sections of law was registered and an investigatio...