The state of Jammu and Kashmir will soon have three cyber police stations, according to Director General of Police Kuldeep Khoda.
The Jammu and Kashmir cabinet is unlikely to take any final call on the partial revocation of the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act as proposed by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, top government sources told rediff.com.
The Jammu and Kashmir cabinet is unlikely to take any final call on the partial revocation of the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act as proposed by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, top government sources told rediff.com.
The Indian Army on Saturday said that the person manhandled by a mob in north Kashmir's Sopore town during the rally of hard-line separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Friday was 'part of the covert team of security forces'.
State health minister had recently announced incentives for those providing information about sex determination to curb female feticide. Mukhtar Ahmad reports.
National Conference President Farooq Abdullah asked his younger brother Mustafa Kamal to step down as the chief spokesman of the party on Thursday evening for his controversial remarks on Armed Forces Special Powers Act.
The crucial unified headquarters meeting that had been convened in J&K winter capital Jammu on Wednesday evening to discuss partial removal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) ended without any consensus.
A moderate intensity earthquake hit Kashmir Valley on Monday evening as people were home celebrating Eid.
The ruling National Conference President and Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy, Dr Farooq Abdullah on Thursday asked his party spokesman Dr Mustaffa Kamal "to exercise restraint and follow the party policy line on all issues, particularly those pertaining to the policies of the coalition government, relationship with the Congress party, Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and the role of the army".
The chief spokesman of the NC, Dr Mustaffa Kamal who is also the uncle of the state chief minister, Omar Abdullah had on Tuesday said that 'Delhi was hurling grenades in Kashmir'.
The alleged custodial death of the ruling National Conference worker, Sayeed Mohammad Yusuf took a new turn on Tuesday when the state crime branch presented another NC activist Mohammad Yusuf Bhat in a local court to record his statement.
Three civilians were injured in a powerful explosion in North Kashmir's Kupwara district on Tuesday afternoon.
An anti-corruption court on Tuesday rejected the plea of the family of the ruling National Conference activist Sayeed Mohammad Yusuf, who allegedly died in police custody on September 30, for a Central Bureau of Investigation probe.
Mehbooba Mufti was on Monday re-elected as the president of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party for a further period of three years.
Shops and business establishments were closed in summer capital Srinagar and public transport was off the roads in response to the strike called by both groups of the separatist All Parties Hurriyat Conference.
At least five civilians were injured in yet another hand grenade explosion in south Kashmir town of Bejibehara, 45 kms from Srinagar on Wednesday afternoon.
Three troopers of the Central Reserve Police Force were injured in two powerful explosions that rocked Srinagar on Tuesday afternoon. A senior police official said, "Militants tossed a hand grenade inside a CRPF camp in Budshah Chowk which exploded, injuring three troopers. They were rushed to the hospital for treatment." The area has been surrounded by security forces and local shopkeepers have downed their shutters in panic.
At least seven persons including four children were killed and 28 others wounded, most of them seriously in a road accident on Srinagar-Jammu national highway on Sunday afternoon.
In a bid to conserve the world famous Dal Lake in Srinagar, which has been facing serious dangers from pollution and encroachments, the Jammu and Kashmir government has decided to relocate houseboats from their present locations.
The army said on Thursday that the longest surviving militant commander who was gunned down on Wednesday by the security forces in north Kashmir's Ganderbal district was responsible for 30 civilian killings.
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