Landslides triggered by heavy rain in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir forced the 300-km-long Jammu-Srinagar National Highway to be closed for vehicular traffic today. “The highway is closed for the vehicular traffic due to fresh landslides at three places enroute the highway in Ramban district,” police said here. The highway is the only surface [...]
The Jammu and Kashmir government has approved a Rs 1,220-crore District Credit Action Plan for Srinagar for 2012-13 fiscal. The details of the Action Plan for next fiscal were given out at District Level Consultative Committee meeting chaired by District Development Commissioner Srinagar Baseer Ahmad Khan and attended by Lead Bank Officer, District Officers and [...]
An army jawan was injured in a gun battle between militants and security forces in a village near Sopore town in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district today. The gunfight ensued when security forces launched a search operation in Mominpora village, some 52-km from Srinagar, following information about presence of militants in the area, officials said. Intermittent [...]
Security forces today busted a militant hideout in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district and recovered a large quantity of arms and ammunition. The recovery was made in a joint operation by security forces following a tip-off in the district, said a police spokesman. Besides a sniper rifle and two Chinese grenades, the security forces seized a [...]
Jammu and Kashmir Agriculture Minister Ghulam Hassan Mir today made an objectionable gesture towards journalists after he was asked to respond to allegations of fleecing of tourists at the resorts falling in his assembly constituency. “What you have got to do with this (fleecing of tourists)? Let me see how your story affects me!,” Mir [...]
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said he did not expect the coming session of the state Assembly to be smooth as the government faced a “destructive opposition”. “We do have, unfortunately, a fairly destructive opposition in Jammu and Kashmir. I hope we can convert what has otherwise been a destructive sort of [...]
One person has been detained by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with the Delhi High Court bombing last year. The person identified as Mohammed Ayub had figured during the interrogation of Wasim Akram, a medical student who is being touted as the main accused in the case by the probe agency, official sources [...]
The total tax revenue collected by the state has touched a high of Rs 4,800 crore this year, Jammu and Kashmir Minister for Finance and Ladakh Affairs Abdul Rahim Rather said. “This year, the total tax revenue has touched a high of Rs 4,800 crore compared to Rs 3,400 crore during last year,” Rather said. [...]
Fresh snowfall and rains are expected in Jammu and Kashmir in the next four days due to fresh western disturbances in the state, weather department said today. The MeT department has forecast heavy snowfall and rains at isolated places in Jammu and Kashmir due to increased precipitation in a day which is likely to disrupt [...]
Jammu and Kashmir vigilance sleuths are investigating a recruitment scam in Bandipora Municipal Committee in which at least 160 people are alleged to have been employed under political influence. According to records of the Municipal Committee, recruitment norms like calling for applications and holding interviews for various posts were not adhered to. The politicians whose [...]
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