Jammu and Kashmir

Over 20,000 Kashmir youths turn up for first Agniveer rally despite terror threat

Srinagar: More than 20,000 Kashmiri youths have participated in the Army's first Agniveer recruitment rally in the valley, notwithstanding a…

2 years ago

Bengaluru agency in J&K govt jobs scam got key official shifted as he refused bribe

Srinagar: With more and more skeletons tumbling out of the closet in the investigation over irregularities in the selection of…

2 years ago

CBI nabs 5 more persons in police recruitment scam in Jammu and Kashmir

The Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) has on Monday arrested five more persons including one constable of the Indian Reserve…

2 years ago

Ghulam Nabi launches Democratic Azad Party as secular force in J&K

Exactly a month after severing his 50-year-long relationship with the Congress, Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday named his new outfit…

2 years ago

Paharis, PoK refugees expecting ST status during Shah’s 3rd visit to J&K

Union Home Minister Amit Shah is expected to announce a special status to nearly a million Paharis and Pahari-speaking people…

2 years ago

Bollywood set to return to Kashmir as Srinagar will have its first multiplex after 33 years

Thirty-two years and nine months after the separatist militants imposed 'blanket ban' on all forms of entertainment and enforced the…

2 years ago

Kashmiri youth eager to become Agniveers as recruitment rallies begin

An Agniveer recruitment rally for male candidates was held at Haiderbeig, Pattan in the Baramulla district of North Kashmir which…

2 years ago

Terrorist hideout busted in J&K, Chinese pistol among arms, ammunition recovered

Security forces on Sunday busted a terrorist hideout in the higher areas of Sangaldan and Gool forest area in Ramban…

2 years ago

In historic move, two cinemas thrown open in Kashmir after 40 years

Two mini cinema halls with multiple utilities were inaugurated by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Sunday in the South Kashmir…

2 years ago

CBI raids 33 locations as probe in J&K police selection scam gathers steam

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday conducted raids simultaneously on 33 locations across India in connection with the…

2 years ago

Azad launches party in J&K; looking for ‘Hindustani’ name and flag

Days after his resignation from the Congress, Ghulam Nabi Azad on Sunday launched his own party at a reception rally…

2 years ago

Srinagar cut off as landslides amid heavy rain block highway

Landslides triggered by heavy rains blocked the 270-km Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Ramban district of the Union Territory on Sunday…

2 years ago

IN Exclusive: Azad to float a new party on Sunday, anticipating J&K polls in December

Former Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, who is launching a new political party on Sunday after severing his 50-year-long relationship…

2 years ago

Azad’s resignation likely to trigger spate of defections beyond Congress

Even as almost all the existing political parties in Jammu and Kashmir are apprehensive of losing their cadres to the…

2 years ago

Exodus gathers steam after 64 Congress leaders resign and join Ghulam Nabi Azad

As many as 64 senior Congress leaders, including former Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand, resigned from the…

2 years ago

Ghulam Nabi Azad’s new party may become a nest for J&K’s  politicians

Like elsewhere across the country, switching political loyalties has had a long history in Ghulam Nabi Azad's home State of…

2 years ago

Will Ghulam Nabi Azad’s exit from Congress trigger a mass exodus?

Ghulam Nabi Azad, the 73-year-old veteran politician from Jammu and Kashmir, has finally severed his 45-year-long relationship with the Congress…

2 years ago

Indian soldiers donate blood to save life of captured Pakistani suicide bomber

Soldiers of the Indian Army donated three bottles of blood to save the life of a Pakistani 'fidayeen' (suicide) terrorist…

2 years ago

CBI court warrants  Rubaiya Sayeed’s presence on 21 September in kidnapping case

A special court in Jammu has issued bailable warrant against the former Union Home Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed's daughter, Rubaiya…

2 years ago

Snake curled on steering wheel of tourist bus in Srinagar triggers scare

The driver of a mini tourist bus in Srinagar’s Khayam Chowk area in Jammu and Kashmir was caught off guard…

2 years ago

4-foot-long venomous snake scares Srinagar family

<p> <strong>Residents of a Balhama household in Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar district were in for a rude shock when they…

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