ED attaches properties worth ₹4.81 crore in bank fraud case in Jammu and Kashmir

ED attaches properties worth ₹4.81 crore in bank fraud case in Jammu and Kashmir

File. | Photo Credit: PTI The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on March 11 attached properties worth ₹4.81 crore in Srinagar in an alleged bank fraud case. “The ED has provisionally attached immovable properties worth ₹4.81 crore in the form of 18 kanal of land (approx.) and building, which pertains to Isfaq Ahmad Zargar, Khalil Ahmad Mughal, … Read more

Day trips to Kashmir’s border towns, Gurez and Keran

Day trips to Kashmir’s border towns, Gurez and Keran

Kashmir was once known for its spirituality — and not for Pakistani militants and infiltrators as in the 90s. It was fertile ground for spiritual movements, be it the Buddhist, Shaivite and Sufi Islamic traditions, during the medieval ages. They knitted the secular culture called Kashmiriyat that preached brotherhood and peace, and which was lost … Read more

PM Modi to launch projects worth ₹30,500 crore in Jammu and Kashmir on February 20

PM Modi to launch projects worth ₹30,500 crore in Jammu and Kashmir on February 20

A file photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi | Photo Credit: PTI All eyes in J&K are on the upcoming public rally in Jammu to be addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 20. He is likely to inaugurate and announce projects worth ₹30,500 crore and formally kick off the party’s campaign for the Lok … Read more

Centre lists four Jammu and Kashmir Bills, and three criminal law Bills for passage in the winter session of Parliament

Centre lists four Jammu and Kashmir Bills, and three criminal law Bills for passage in the winter session of Parliament

Parliamentarians in the Lok Sabha. File. | Photo Credit: PTI The Union government has listed the four Bills related to Jammu & Kashmir, including one pertaining to the reservation of Assembly seats for “Kashmiri migrants”, to be taken up for discussion in the winter session of Parliament commencing on December 4. The Jammu and Kashmir Reservation … Read more

Pledge ceremonies held for police officials across Kashmir

Pledge ceremonies held for police officials across Kashmir

A pledge was administered to all the police officers and officials in all the districts of the Kashmir valley on Monday to work for “maintaining highest standards of integrity, transparency and good governance”. A police spokesman said the pledge was made on the occasion of ‘Vigilance Awareness Week’.  “The pledge functions were held simultaneously at all … Read more

R.R. Swain new in charge DGP of Jammu and Kashmir

R.R. Swain new in charge DGP of Jammu and Kashmir

R.R. Swain. File. | Photo Credit: NISSAR AHMAD Rashmi Ranjan Swain, Special Director-General of Jammu & Kashmir CID, was on October 27 designated as the in charge Director-General of Police (DGP), as the term of incumbent DGP Dilbag Singh’s is coming to an end this month. “With the approval of Competent Authority, R.R. Swain, IPS (AGMUT:1991) … Read more

Kashmir | New vistadome coaches to offer tourists a memorable train ride through the Valley’s saffron fields and apple orchards

Kashmir | New vistadome coaches to offer tourists a memorable train ride through the Valley’s saffron fields and apple orchards

The new vistadome coaches in Kashmir’s sky trains | Photo Credit: Nissar Ahmad The autumn sun lights up the 40-seater vistadome coaches introduced this month on trains plying in the Kashmir valley. The glass roofs give you a glimpse of the sky, which will soon be filled with swirling snowflakes as winter approaches, making the … Read more

Snow, rainfall trigger cold wave in Kashmir, disrupts traffic movement

Snow, rainfall trigger cold wave in Kashmir, disrupts traffic movement

Snow being cleared from Mughal road after heavy snowfall in Pir ki Gali area, in Poonch on October 16, 2023. | Photo Credit: ANI A cold wave gripped Kashmir on October 16 as the higher reaches received a spell of snowfall and the plains were lashed by rainfall. Several highways were closed due to snow … Read more