J&K

SRINAGAR: The rescuers were able to recover the mortal remains of one person as inclement weather stopped the search operations in the tunnel collapse accident on the Jammu-Srinagar highway in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district on Thursday. Officials said that at around 10.15 pm on May 19, the Ajit tunnel of T3 caved in near […]

    SRINAGAR: Lt Gen Amardeep Singh Aujla on Monday took over the command of the strategic Chinar Corps from Lt Gen Devendra Pratap Pandey at Corps headquarters here. Lt Gen Pandey is moving to the Army War College in Mhow as its Commandant. Lt Gen Aujla belonged to the Rajputana Rifles regiment of the […]

NEW DELHI: A distinguished soldier and a prominent member of the Kashmiri pandit community General (retd.) Tej Kaul, PVSM, AVSM, VSM was awarded the prestigious Dr Nirmala Deshpande Memorial Global Peace Award on Sunday. The awards committee of Akhil Bharat Rachanatmak Samaj (ABRS), under the chairmanship of its vice-president and former Member of Legislative Council, […]

NEW DELHI: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has said that Pakistan has “no locus standi” to comment on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Jammu and Kashmir. The MEA’s response came after Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had termed PM Modi’s recent visit to Jammu as “staged”. “I do not understand the word […]

  NEW DELHI: The quaint village of Palli in the Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir became a carbon-neutral panchayat after Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a 500KV solar plant in the hamlet. Speaking to the villagers, PM Modi said that the panchayat had shown the way for the country to achieve a carbon-neutral state. […]

NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday carried out searches at more than 14 locations in Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Delhi in connection with alleged irregularities in the award of contracts for two projects in the Union Territory. A CBI spokesperson here said that the agency was […]

SRINAGAR: Stating that Delimitation Commission’s fresh proposal has increased alienation in Union Territory, National Conference president and Member Parliament Farooq Abdullah on Saturday said his party will fight elections in any case and it is too premature to say whether People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) will go for polls together. Dr Abdullah said this […]

NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR: Looks like there’s more than what meets the eye to the massive power outages that have left the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) crippled since Friday when over 20 thousand employees of Power Development Department (PDD) went on a strike in protest against the privatisation bid by the Centre. Administration officials claim […]

SRINAGAR/NEW DELHI: Former National Investigation Agency (NIA) cop Rakesh Balwal, a 2012-batch IPS officer, was on Thursday made the new SSP of Srinagar — a politically surcharged region of Jammu and Kashmir that has recently seen multiple attacks on innocent civilians, migrants and security forces even as joint operations have flushed out top terrorists over […]