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SRINAGAR : In a first-of-its-kind move among Union Territories, Ladakh has approved 4 per cent horizontal reservation for outstanding sportspersons in direct recruitment to Group C non-gazetted government posts, officials said on Wednesday. Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena approved the reservation under the new Ladakh Sports Policy, 2026, with the administration subsequently notifying the Union []

SRINAGAR: Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) CEO Rajit Punhani on Tuesday assured Jammu and Kashmir of technical and financial support to strengthen the Union Territorys food testing infrastructure and improve food safety compliance. Punhani made the assurance during an interactive meeting with food business operators (FBOs), trade and industry associations and other []

SRINAGAR: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday urged visiting US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor to review and withdraw the highest-level travel advisory against visiting Kashmir, saying it was affecting the livelihoods of families dependent on tourism. The least the US Ambassador Sergio Gor @USAmbIndia can do is review and withdraw []

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Police has registered a case against BJP Kisan Morcha leader Aijaz Ahmad Shah for alleged cheating and criminal intimidation in Pulwama district, officials said on Tuesday. The FIR was registered at Tral police station under Sections 420 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), they said. As the alleged offence []

SRINAGAR: The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh has declared August 26, Wednesday, as a holiday and December 19, Saturday, as a working day for the court. According to a notification issued by the Registrar General of the High Court, August 25, Tuesday, which was shown as a holiday on account of Eid-i-Milad-un-Nabi []

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir is likely to witness fairly widespread to widespread light to moderate rain and thunderstorms over the next 24 hours, with the Meteorological Centre Srinagar warning of isolated thunder, lightning and gusty winds in parts of the Kashmir division and more intense weather activity in the Jammu division. According to the weather []

SRINAGAR: An elderly woman died after being hit by a car near the Bypass in Sopore area of north Kashmirs Baramulla district on Wednesday. Quoting an official, the news agency KNO reported that the accident occurred when an Alto car, travelling from Sopore towards Bandipora, hit a pedestrian near Sofi Akber Road, Bypass, in Sopore. []

SRINAGAR: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday said issues concerning Jammu and Kashmir have to be resolved by the Centre and not by Washington, ruling out raising any grievances with US Ambassador to India and Special Envoy for South and Central Asian Affairs Sergio Gor during their scheduled meeting. Gor is set to arrive in []

SRINAGAR: Four persons were injured after a Xylo vehicle carrying a dead body met with an accident near Sinthan Top in south Kashmirs Anantnag district on Wednesday, officials said. Quoting officials, news agency GNS reported that the accident occurred around 23 kilometres below Sinthan Top, within the jurisdiction of Police Station Larnoo. The Xylo, bearing []

SRINAGAR: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday undertook an early-morning tour of Srinagar city, inspecting key development projects and reviewing infrastructure aimed at improving public services and urban mobility in the historic Shehar-e-Khaas. The Chief Minister was accompanied by Deputy Chief Minister Surinder Kumar Choudhary, Health and Medical Education Minister Sakina Itoo, Advisor to the []

SRINAGAR: At least three persons were killed after the vehicle they were travelling in skidded off the road and rolled down a hill in the Thub area of Reasi district on Tuesday evening, officials said. Quoting an official, the news agency KNO reported that the vehicle, bearing registration number JK14B-1284, was travelling from Reasi towards []

SRINAGAR : Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Tuesday chaired the 81st meeting of the Jammu and Kashmir Rajya Sainik Board at Lok Bhavan, reviewing welfare measures for veterans, Veer Naris, widows and dependents. The meeting discussed issues related to welfare delivery, grievance redressal, healthcare and institutional strengthening, including the establishment of a ZSWO at Kishtwar []

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Bank has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with FIL Industries Private Limited to bring nearly 600 employees of the Srinagar-based business group under its Corporate Salary Package, strengthening an institutional banking relationship between the two organisations. The agreement was signed in Srinagar by J&K Bank Zonal Head (Srinagar) Sheikh []

SRINAGAR: The Income Tax Department has launched a nationwide verification exercise into suspicious foreign remittances after identifying several entities that allegedly transferred large sums of money abroad despite reporting very small turnovers. The department said the action was based on ground intelligence and data analysis of outward foreign remittances over the past three years. The []

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) General Secretary Haji Ali Mohammad Sagar on Tuesday said the Omar Abdullah-led government was committed to improving the economic conditions and livelihoods of artisans, craftsmen, traders and people associated with the tourism sector. Sagar made the remarks while interacting with several public delegations, traders associations and representatives of []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education (JKBOSE) will hold a meeting of its Unfair Means (UFM) Committee on August 20 to examine cases involving alleged use of unfair means by candidates appearing in various examinations. The meeting will cover cases pertaining to Classes 10, 11 and 12 under the Annual Private/Bi-Annual 2026 []

SRINAGAR: US Ambassador to India and Special Envoy for South and Central Asian Affairs Sergio Gor is scheduled to travel to the Kashmir Valley on Wednesday, marking his first official visit to Jammu and Kashmir, officials said, according to a report by ETV Bharat. During his stay in Srinagar, Gor is expected to meet Jammu []

SRINAGAR: Environmental activist Dr Raja Muzaffar Bhat said that the Karewa landscape of Pulwama and Budgam has been subjected to loot and plunder on a scale far greater than the quantities reflected in official records. This, he said, after a joint committee constituted by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) documented extensive excavation and alteration of []

SRINAGAR: Deputy Commissioner Srinagar Akshay Labroo on Tuesday inaugurated Information and Communication Technology (ICT) laboratories in five government schools under a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative funded by NTT DATA and implemented by ELFA International. The ICT labs were inaugurated at Government Girls Higher Secondary School, Nawakadal, with the facilities established at five schools across []

SRINAGAR: A 30-year-old labourer who was critically injured in a hit-and-run accident in Salasan area of Boniyar in Uri has succumbed to his injuries at SKIMS Soura, officials said on Tuesday. The deceased, identified as Dhaker, son of Ashmali Dhaker, a resident of Salasan, Boniyar, was hit by an unidentified vehicle in the area on []

SRINAGAR: The proposed Rs 104.02-crore Plug-and-Play Industrial Park at Nowgam has come under intensified environmental and planning scrutiny, with two environmental groups questioning its compatibility with the Srinagar Master Plan-035 and a State Administrative Council decision that explicitly restricted construction along the Pantha Chowk=Nowgam corridor because it forms part of a flood-absorption basin. The Environmental []

SRINAGAR: Anantnag Police has booked an alleged habitual fraudster under the Public Safety Act (PSA), citing concerns over his activities and their impact on public order. The action has been taken against Tasaduq Hussain Dar, son of Ab. Gani Dar, a resident of Sadoora in Anantnag, after the District Magistrate, Anantnag, issued a detention warrant []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has constituted District Highway Safety Task Forces across the Union Territory to strengthen road safety measures, identify accident-prone locations and ensure compliance with the directions of the Supreme Court. The General Administration Department issued Government Order No. 1412-JK(GAD) of 2026 on August 18, in compliance with the Supreme Court []

by Umaima Reshi SRINAGAR: A 50-acre industrial park proposed at Nowgam in Srinagar is set to be developed as a fully integrated plug-and-play industrial hub at an estimated cost of Rs 104.02 crore. The project is designed primarily to cater to Kashmirs horticulture value chain, food processing, light manufacturing, logistics, warehousing and digital services. The []

SRINAGAR: The 13th edition of the Ladakh Marathon is set to offer a record prize purse of Rs 1 crore, marking a major expansion of one of the worlds highest-altitude endurance sporting events. Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh, Vinai Kumar Saxena, today launched the official jersey for the 13th edition of the marathon, formally setting the []

SRINAGAR: A 50-year-old man was killed after the scooty he was riding collided with a truck at Fruit Mandi in Parimpora area of Srinagar on Tuesday, officials said. Quoting an official, the news agency KNO reported that the accident occurred at Fruit Mandi, Parimpora, when the mans scooty collided with a truck bearing registration number []

SRINAGAR: Peoples Conference chairman Sajad Lone on Tuesday dismissed reports claiming that he had boycotted the Independence Day parade in Kupwara, terming the reports pure gibberish. Lone said that no such incident had taken place and clarified that he was not even present in Kupwara on the day of the Independence Day celebrations. There is []

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir is likely to witness a spell of fairly widespread to widespread light to moderate rain and thunderstorms over the next several days, with the Meteorological Centre Srinagar forecasting continued wet weather across both divisions. According to the weather bulletin issued by the Meteorological Centre, Srinagar, on Tuesday, fairly widespread to widespread []

Drawn by better returns, people living on water-scarce hillsides in Jammu and Kashmir are replacing labour-intensive maize with the relatively low-maintenance lavender. The shift has taken root, but with annual production still around 3,000 litres and turnover barely Rs 10 crore, it may be too early to call it the purple revolution as officials claim []

SRINAGAR: A woman was killed while her son sustained injuries after the scooty they were travelling on skidded off the road in Amerbugh area of Imam Sahib in south Kashmirs Shopian district on Tuesday. An official said the woman was riding pillion on the scooty being driven by her son when the vehicle skidded off []

SRINAGAR: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) Kashmir of the Crime Branch J&K has filed a chargesheet against a Budgam resident for allegedly attempting to influence an ongoing Crime Branch investigation by transferring money into the bank account of an investigating officer. The chargesheet was filed before the Special Judge, Anti-Corruption, Srinagar, in FIR No. 28/2026 []

SRINAGAR: A Five Central Reserve Police Force personnel were injured after a Crpf vehicle collided with a truck near Levdura area of Qazigund on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway on Tuesday morning. Quoting officials, news agency GNS reported that the injured personnel were immediately shifted to a nearby hospital for medical treatment. The injured have been []

SRINAGAR: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Monday called for regular interfaith dialogue and greater participation of youth and communities in initiatives aimed at strengthening social harmony, saying dialogue was key to building trust and peace. Addressing the *Mulaqat* programme organised by the Save Youth Save Future Foundation in Pulwama, Sinha said people belonging to different []

SRINAGAR: The Sopore Police District on Monday ordered a reshuffle of officers, transferring and posting seven police personnel to different police stations and police posts with immediate effect. According to an order issued by the Senior Superintendent of Police, Sopore, Inspector Ayaz Rasool Geelani has been transferred from DPL Sopore and posted as SHO Police []

SRINAGAR : With the first International Film Festival of J&K (IFFJK) scheduled to be held from September 7 to 10, the administration has begun working on tourism, sightseeing and hospitality arrangements for national and international guests attending the festival. Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Anshul Garg on Monday chaired a meeting to review preparations for the festival, []

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (NC) MLA from Zadibal and chief spokesperson Tanvir Sadiq on Monday hit out at the BJP over its protest against the Omar Abdullah-led government, saying the party should first explain the continued delay in restoring statehood to Jammu and Kashmir. Sadiq said the BJP had every democratic right to []

SRINAGAR : The Jammu and Kashmir Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and Backward Classes Development Corporation has decided to intensify recovery of long-pending loans and introduce an online system for loan recovery and disbursement of welfare schemes. The decision was taken at the 46th meeting of the Corporations Board of Directors, chaired by Minister for Social []

SRINAGAR: The Pulwama district police have ordered a reshuffle of four Station House Officers (SHOs) and shifted two probationary Deputy Superintendents of Police (DySPs) for practical training. According to an order issued by the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Pulwama, on August 17, probationary DySPs Mohd Waseem and Fizza Hamid have been moved from their []

SRINAGAR : Srinagar Lok Sabha member Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi on Monday said he has made up his mind to resign from Parliament in the coming months, but indicated that an intervention by National Conference president Dr Farooq Abdullah could lead him to reconsider the decision if the party accepts a set of political proposals. []

SRINAGAR: The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Jammu and Kashmir administration to initiate land acquisition proceedings and pay compensation and rental dues for nearly eight decades of use of land that was taken over in 1953 for a police station in Kangan, Ganderbal, without any formal acquisition. A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has filed a chargesheet against 10 persons, including seven officers of the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC), in connection with alleged illegal and unauthorised construction in Ward No. 28 of Batamaloo near Tiny Hearts School, Tengpora. The chargesheet in FIR No. 06/2023 registered at Police Station ACB Srinagar []

SRINAGAR: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday reviewed the steps being taken by the National Testing Agency (NTA) to reform its examination system and directed strict compliance with established protocols and an overhaul of its confidential operations architecture. Pradhan held a meeting with the Secretary, Department of Higher Education, NTA Director General and other []

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir-born IAS officer Arjun Gupta, a 2024-batch officer of the AGMUT cadre, has been posted as Joint Commissioner (Industries) in Delhi with immediate effect. Gupta, who hails from Trikuta Nagar in Jammu and has roots in Ramkot village of Kathua, secured All India Rank 32 in the UPSC Civil Services Examination (CSE) []

SRINAGAR: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested a Sub-Inspector of the Jammu and Kashmir Police, posted at Police Station Janipur in Jammu, in an alleged bribery case. The CBI registered a case on August 16 based on a complaint alleging that the accused officer had demanded a bribe of Rs 20,000 from the []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has returned a petition filed by the Union of India seeking substitution of an arbitrator in a dispute with M/s PNSC Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd., holding prima facie that the seat of arbitration had been fixed at Delhi and that the dispute must therefore be taken before []

SRINAGAR: A woman died while her husband was injured after the scooty they were travelling on was hit by an Alto car near Hiranagar Morh in Kathua district on Monday, officials said. Quoting an official, the news agency KNO reported that the accident occurred near a petrol pump at Hiranagar Morh when an Alto car []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir government has informed the High-Level Committee on Demographic Changes (HLCDC) that 6,737 Rohingyas and 46 Bangladeshi nationals are residing across 10 districts of the Jammu region, while 919 Rohingyas and 458 Bangladeshis have been identified across districts of the Kashmir Valley. The data was presented to four members of the []

SRINAGAR: The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has operationalised the much-awaited 2.79-km Sungal Tunnel on the Jammu-Poonch road, providing a safer and faster link towards Rajouri, Poonch, Nowshera and other areas of the Pir Panjal region. Constructed through the Kalidhar Range at an estimated cost of Rs 600 crore, the two-lane tunnel bypasses a difficult and []

SRINAGAR : A 30-year-old man was injured in a bear attack in Sarhandi Colony of Khonmoh on the outskirts of Srinagar on Monday, officials said. Quoting an official, news agency KNO reported that the man was attacked by the bear in the colony and suffered injuries. He was shifted to SMHS Hospital in Srinagar for []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has set aside a Family Court order granting custody of two minor children to their father and directed that the children continue to remain in the custody of their mother, holding that their welfare would be better served by remaining in Kashmir. Justice Sanjay Dhar, in []