Kashmir
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Include 50 per cent import duty on apples: Mehbooba Mufti to Modi
Srinagar: Emphasising that the interim Indo-US trade deal would take a toll on the nation’s farmers and fruit growers, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Friday, February 20, appealed to Prime Minister Narendra…
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5 HDFC Bank employees arrested in J-K for financial fraud
Srinagar: Five HDFC employees have been arrested in connection with a large-scale financial fraud in the Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir. The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Crime Branch carried…
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2 Pakistani nationals who escaped from Jammu juvenile home held in Ludhiana
Jammu: Two Pakistani nationals, who escaped from a juvenile home in a border village here, were arrested within 24 hours of the incident, officials said on Tuesday, February 17. However, the local…
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Muslims in India experiencing ‘sensitive and testing period’: Mirwaiz
Srinagar: Moderate separatist voice and Kashmir’s chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Sunday, February 15, said Muslims in the country were enduring a “sensitive and testing period” and there was “rising communal…
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Uproar in J-K Assembly over BJP MLA’s land occupation remarks
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Assembly witnessed uproar on Friday, February 13, after BJP member Vikram Randhawa claimed that people hailing from Kashmir valley have encroached land in Jammu city. Replying to a…
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J&K earns Rs 2,152 crore from liquor shop auctions in two fiscal years
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir government has generated about Rs 2,152 crore in revenue from the auction of liquor shops over the past two financial years, and has no proposal to open…
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‘White collar’ terror module: NIA raids govt medical college in J&K
Srinagar: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday carried out searches at the Government Medical College in the Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir in connection with the “white collar” terror module…
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Over 2 lakh dog bite cases reported in J-K in 2024–25; Jammu district tops list
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir government on Thursday, February 5, said that more than two lakh dog bite cases were reported across the Union Territory in 2024 and 2025, with the Jammu…
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J-K govt to allot land to calamity-hit landless families on lease basis: Omar
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday, February 5, said the government has approved the allotment of five ‘marlas’ of land on a 40-year lease basis to landless families…
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Uttarakhand: Our only crime is we are Kashmiri Muslims, says teen
The 17-year-old Kashmiri boy, who suffered serious head injuries when a shopkeeper hit him and his friend with an iron rod in Uttarakhand‘s Dehradun district, said they were targeted for being Muslims. Tabish…
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Operation ‘Kiya’: Two terrorists killed in J-K’s Udhampur
Jammu: Two Pakistani terrorists, including a top commander of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) outfit, were killed on Wednesday, February 4, after they were trapped inside a cave in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir,…
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NIA raids at multiple locations in Kashmir
Srinagar: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday, February 2, carried out searches at multiple locations in Srinagar, Bandipora and Baramulla districts of Jammu and Kashmir in connection with a terror case,…
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Earthquake measuring 4.8 with epicentre in central Budgam shakes Kashmir
Srinagar: A moderate-intensity earthquake shook the Kashmir Valley on Monday, February 2, as people panicked and rushed out of their homes, while doors, windows and household goods rattled. Although the earthquake measured…
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Octogenarian woman who urged Hizbul Mujahideen son to surrender dies
Kishtwar: An octogenarian woman who had repeatedly appealed to her Hizbul Mujahideen commander son through social media to shun violence and surrender died in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district, with her last…
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Kashmiri teenager attack: Main accused held after CM Omar’s intervention
Jammu: After the arrest of the prime accused in the attack on an 18-year-old Kashmiri youth in Uttarakhand, an official statement issued by the Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s intervention…
