Srinagar : Senior BJP leader and party’s J&K spokesman Altaf Thakur Wednesday took a jibe at National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah for claiming that ‘kya badla hai…” stated that it needs a fact check to see what exactly has changed for a reminder, Kashmir has never been as peaceful as it is today as … Read more
PULWAMA: National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah on Wednesday said the BJP government has harmed the bond between Jammu and Kashmir and the rest of the country with the abrogation of Article 370 provisions. Reacting to Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s statement in Parliament, Abdullah said the people of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh were not … Read more
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Police have filed a case into a bomb hoax at an educational institution in Jammu. Informed about an alleged call made by an unknown person claiming to have planted a bomb inside an educational institution, security forces and BDS’ reached site at Residency road Jammu this morning. However the threat later … Read more
Srinagar: Residential property of a terror associate in Ashtengoo area of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district was attached under UAPA, police said on Wednesday. In a post on X, Bandipora police as per the news agency informed that the property belonged to Irfan Ahmad Bhat, a terror associate linked to Lashkar-e-Toiba. Police said that the land … Read more
NEW DELHI: The government is ready to hold Assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir whenever the Election Commission (EC) takes a final decision in the matter, Union minister Jitendra Singh said in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. Intervening in the discussion on the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill and the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) … Read more
NEW DELHI: Union Home Minister Amit Shah Tuesday asserted that the concept of “one flag, one prime minister, one constitution” was not a political slogan and the BJP firmly believes in the principle and finally implemented it with regard to Jammu and Kashmir. Responding to a remark by TMC’s Saugata Roy in the Lok Sabha … Read more
JAMMU: Inspector General (IG) of the BSF D K Boora affirmed on Tuesday that the force successfully maintained peace along the International Border (IB) in the Jammu frontier and said no infiltration was reported along the border with Pakistan in the past year. He said there has been a significant decrease in the number of drone-dropping … Read more
NEW DELHI: Opposition members in the Lok Sabha sought a timeline from the government on Tuesday for holding Assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir, with the Centre asserting that it is ready and it is up to the Election Commission (EC) to take a decision in the matter. The Union Territory is under central rule since … Read more
JAMMU: Army troops opened a few rounds at a suspected Pakistani drone along the Line of Control in Akhnoor sector here Tuesday evening, police officials said. A massive joint search operation by the Army and police is underway following the incident in forward Battal area, they said. Alert troops picked up the movement of a suspected … Read more
NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday raided eight locations across Jammu and Kashmir in connection with the terror conspiracy hatched and operationalised by the offshoots of the banned Pakistan-backed terrorist organisations, such as Laskhar-e-Toiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), Al-Badr and Al-Qaeda. The places searched included seven districts of Poonch, Shopian, Pulwama, Baramulla, … Read more
JAMMU: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha chaired a high-level meeting with senior officials to review the progress of Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra, recruitment to various posts and status of institutionalised outreach programmes for bridging information and knowledge gap regarding government schemes and programmes across the UT of J&K. The meeting was attended by Atal Dulloo, Chief Secretary; … Read more
NEW DELHI: Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Space and Atomic Energy, Dr Jitendra Singh said on tuesday that “Atal Tinkering Labs” introduced at the initiative of Prime Minister Narendra Modi have proved to be game-changer for school children. While inaugurating the New Delhi Municipal Council’s … Read more