Kashmir Reader

KOLKATA: Mamata Banerjee once made rebellion her political weapon, breaking away from the Congress to build the TMC, but 28 years on, after weathering a string of revolts, she finds that weapon turned inward, striking at the very party identity she created and made synonymous with her political journey. The Election Commissions interim decision to []

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Police Director General of Police (DGP) Nalin Prabhat on Friday congratulated the newly selected candidates for the Jammu and Kashmir Police (Gazetted) Services, saying that wearing the police uniform carries immense responsibility and comes with challenges, including risks to life. Addressing the newly selected candidates on the sidelines of a function []

Ganderbal: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Friday flagged off the annual Harmukh-Gangbal Yatra from Naranag in Kangan, marking the commencement of the pilgrimage to the sacred Gangbal Lake. Speaking to reporters after flagging off the yatra, LG Sinha,said a large number of devotees from Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of the country had arrived []

NEW DELHI: Eight Bangladeshis were among nine people sentenced to life imprisonment by a NIA court in Hyderabad in a 2019 human trafficking case involving Bangladeshi women, officials said on Friday. The court on Thursday also imposed a fine of Rs 1.37 lakh on the convicts, with a further sentence of three-month simple imprisonment in []

Srinagar: Economic Offences Wing (EOW) Kashmir of Crime Branch J&K has arrested a notorious fraudster involved in a multi-lakh land and property fraud case. In a handout, the CBK said that the accused has been identified as Ghulam Mohi-Ud-Din Dar, son of Abdul Khaliq Dar, resident of Jawalapora, Samson Budgam. The arrest was executed in []

Jammu: A birthday celebration turned fatal in Jammu after a man was allegedly murdered over cake-smearing, with police arresting the accused within hours. In a handout , the police said that police Post GMC Jammu informed Police Station Janipur that one person namely Pawan Nair alias Sameer was brought to GMC Jammu in an injured []

Rajouri: In a major breakthrough, police have busted a logistic support module linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in Rajouri and arrested three persons for allegedly harbouring and facilitating movement of terrorists. An offficial said that during further investigation in case FIR No. 95/2026 of Police Station Dharamsal, Rajouri, it has emerged that three accused persons, all []

GENEVA: Rivers across the world experienced one of their driest years in decades in 2025, with below-normal flows recorded in more than a third of the worlds river basins, the World Meteorological Organisation said on Thursday. The UN agencys State of Global Water Resources report said terrestrial water storage including groundwater, lakes, vegetation, ice []

Reaffirm readiness to meet defence pact obligations ISLAMABAD: Pakistans defence minister Khawaja Asif has said on Thursday that the country is fully prepared to meet its obligations under the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement after Saudi Arabia said its air defences intercepted and destroyed a Houthi drone near Mecca. Asif made the remarks while speaking to []

NPCI circular offers no advantage to foreign credit cards NEW DELHI: The Finance Ministry on Thursday dismissed allegations that US pressure influenced the decision to levy a 0.4 per cent Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on select UPI payments, saying the latest NPCI guidelines do not offer any advantage to international credit cards over RuPay on []

NEW DELHI: India remains firmly committed to ensuring energy security for its 1.4 billion people and will continue to pursue diversified sources based on evolving market dynamics, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Thursday, while reacting to legislation passed by the US House of Representatives that could enable steep tariffs on major buyers of []

SRINAGAR: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Thursday released a book titled Journal of the Waypoints, based on the Kashmiri poetry of acclaimed multilingual poet Dr Satish Vimal. The book, authored by eminent writer, translator and poet, Mushtaque B. Barq, features forty selected Kashmiri poems of Dr Vimal, translated into English and critically elucidated by Barq, []

Says open merit youth losing opportunities SRINAGAR: Awami Itihaad Party (AIP) on Thursday said that the continued delay in rationalising Jammu and Kashmirs reservation policy was causing a growing loss of opportunities for Open Merit aspirants, who have already waited for nearly two years for a final decision. Nearly two years of the Omar Abdullah []

Presides over Thana Diwas BARAMULLA: As part of the ongoing public outreach and community policing initiatives, DIG North Kashmir Range, Dr Vinod Kumar-IPS presided over Thana Diwas at Police Station Bomai, Zaingeer, in PD Sopore, where he interacted with a large gathering of people from different walks of life. The programme witnessed participation of respectable []