Tag: Jammu and Kashmir

Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbagh Singh on Tuesday said during faceoff between security forces and militants, the later is being given every opportunity to surrender before taking a decisive action. He termed the killing of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) commander Zahid Tiger in a recent gunfight in south Kashmir’s Pulwama ...

 Seven more COVID-19 positive persons died during the past 24 hours, taking the number of casualties in J&K to 1340 while Tuesday reported 677 new cases, taking the total infection count to 84,708, officials said.As per the government, the fresh casualties include four from Kashmir division and three from ...

Employees of the Jammu and Kashmir Civil Secretariat will mark their attendance through a facial recognition system from next week, an official circular issued on Tuesday said. The use of the biometric attendance system, which requires people to put a finger on the surface of ...

Srinagar: PDP president and former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti is being released after being in preventive detention for more than 14 months following the abrogation of Article 370 last year."Ms. Mehbooba Mufti being released," JK government spokesman Rohit Kansal tweeted.Mehbooba, who became the first woman ...

More than six months after its suspension, the government on Tuesday ordered resumption of Face Recognition Bio-metric Attendance Systems from October 19. “Having regard to SoPs in place for containing the spread of the Corona, Bio-metric attendance was suspended in all Government offices across the Union territory of Jammu ...

PDP president and former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti is being released after being in preventive detention for more than 14 months following the abrogation of Article 370 last year. "Ms. Mehbooba Mufti being released," JK government spokesman Rohit Kansal tweeted. ...

Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti was on Tuesday released from her over one-year detention under the Public Safety Act. Mufti had been in detention since August 5, 2019, the day the Centre abolished the special status of Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 of the Indian ...

Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbagh Singh Tuesday termed the killing of Lashkar-e-Toiba commander Zahid Tiger in a gunfight at South Kashmir’s Pulwama district on October 10, a big success for forces and stated that every might who gets trapped in cordon is given an opportunity to surrender.   ...

It was a cigarette butt that turned Tariq’s life around. Tariq A Patloo remembers the moment like it were yesterday. “I was taking a German tourist through one of our canals,” Patloo said. “He had a smoke but did not throw the cigarette out. ‘It will poison the water’ ...

Lt Gen M V Suchindra Kumar Lt Gen MV Suchindra Kumar takes over as the GOC of the elite 16 Corps, from Lt Gen Harsha Gupta. Lt Gen Kumar said it was an honour to command such an elite formation with a rich history of Jammu and Kashmir. He ...