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SRINAGAR : A fire broke out at a helipad terminal in Katra early Sunday, damaging part of the facility used by pilgrims travelling to the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir. The blaze was reported around 3:15 am when the terminal was closed and no pilgrims were present inside, officials []

SRINAGAR: Saudi Arabia said it intercepted a ballistic missile fired by Yemens Houthi rebels towards Riyadh on Saturday, in what was reported as the first attempted strike on the capital since fighting involving the Iran-backed group intensified amid the wider Iran war. The Saudi-led coalition said the missile was intercepted, while residents reported hearing an []

SRINAGAR: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Jammu on Saturday organised a one-day conference on financial sector initiatives and cyber security awareness at Hotel Taj Dal View in Srinagar, with officials discussing credit delivery, digital finance and measures to combat cyber fraud. Chief Secretary Atal Dulloo attended the conference as chief guest, while RBI Deputy []

SRINAGAR: The government has made Biometric Aadhaar Authentication mandatory for domestic LPG consumers seeking subsidised refills at the regulated Retail Selling Price (RSP) from October 1, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas said on Saturday. The Ministry said consumers must complete the authentication process to continue booking subsidised domestic LPG refills at the applicable []

SRINAGAR: The summer capital Srinagar is set to witness hectic political activity on Sunday, with the National Conference, Congress and the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party convening separate legislature party meetings to chalk out strategy for the upcoming autumn session of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly. Ahead of the session, the ruling National Conference []

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir is likely to experience generally dry weather till the end of September, with brief spells of rain expected at isolated places in North and Central Kashmir on September 24 and 27, the Meteorological Centre said on Saturday. A MeT official said that weak Western Disturbances are likely to affect the region []

SRINAGAR: Fruit growers in Kashmir have been advised against premature harvesting of apples, with growers representatives cautioning that picking fruit before attaining proper colour and maturity could adversely affect both quality and market demand. The advisory comes amid the ongoing apple harvesting season, when some growers have started picking varieties earlier than the usual harvesting []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Government on Saturday assigned the additional charge of Mission Director, DJAY (S), to JKAS officer Mridhu Slathia, who is currently serving as Additional Secretary in the Housing and Urban Development Department. The order, issued by the Housing and Urban Development Department under Government Order No. 196-JK(HUD) of 2026 dated September []

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday attended the concluding day of a two-day high-level conference on Financing Indias Journey towards Viksit Bharat, organised by the Ministry of Finance, Government of India. The conference brought together Finance Ministers and Finance Secretaries from States and Union Territories with legislatures to discuss strategies for []

SRINAGAR: The Assistant Director Tourism, Gulmarg, on Saturday said no permission had been sought or granted by his office for the proposed Tantra in Silence at Gurez event being circulated on social media. In an official clarification, the tourism department said it had no information or official communication concerning the programme referred to in a []

SRINAGAR: A proposed four-day meditation retreat in Gurez Valley has drawn objections from PDP president Mehbooba Mufti and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who have urged authorities to examine the programme and its proposed activities. The retreat, titled Tantra in Silence A Journey Within, is advertised for September 24 to 27 under the name Rajneesh Tantra []

SRINAGAR: Minister for Education, Social Welfare, Health and Medical Education Sakeena Itoo on Saturday laid the foundation stones for a health sub-centre and four road projects in Kulgam district, besides inaugurating an under-19 girls inter-district baseball tournament. The health sub-centre at Gandwani will be constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 40 lakh, while the []

SRINAGAR: Police arrested seven alleged drug peddlers in separate operations in Anantnag district and recovered 3.118 kilograms of ganja and 55 grams of charas, officials said on Saturday. According to a police spokesperson, three alleged peddlers were arrested at Hatigam crossing in the Sringufwara area. Police recovered 1.378 kilograms of ganja and 12 grams of []

SRINAGAR: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Saturday laid the foundation stone of the Mata Lalleshwari Cultural and Heritage Centre at Mata Bhaderkali Asthapan in Thalwal, with the project aimed at preserving and promoting the spiritual and cultural legacy of Yogini Lalleshwari. Sanctioned under the Capex budget at an estimated cost of Rs 4.5 crore, the []

SRINAGAR: Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir Moulvi Mohammad Umar Farooq has called for immediate intervention by the authorities over a proposed Tantra Silence retreat advertised for Gurez Valley, saying tourism promotion should not come at the expense of the regions religious and social sensitivities. The concern raised by @MehboobaMufti deserves immediate attention! That this kind of program is being []

SRINAGAR: A 30-year-old man from Gonipora Hayama in Kupwara district died at a hospital on Saturday after suffering a suspected cardiac arrest in Karnah. The deceased was identified as Noshad Ahmad War, son of Mohd Jamal War, a resident of War Mohalla in Gonipora Hayama. According to preliminary information, War developed sudden chest pain while []

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Sales Tax Appellate Tribunal Chairman Amit Kumar Gupta has been assigned the additional charge of Registrar (Headquarters) at the Resident Office of the High Court of Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh in New Delhi. The High Court established the Resident Office in New Delhi through an order issued today. Gupta will continue []

SRINAGAR: Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh Vinai Kumar Saxena has empowered Naib-Tehsildars holding independent charge of a tehsil to issue Reserved Category Certificates and Income Certificates within their respective jurisdictions. To bring governance directly to the doorsteps of the people, have empowered Naib-Tehsildars, holding independent charge of a Tehsil in Ladakh, to issue Reserved Category Certificates []

SRINAGAR: Police in central Kashmirs Budgam district have apprehended an absconding accused wanted in multiple cheque-bounce cases and a cheating case registered at Police Station Magam. The accused, identified as Reyaz Ahmad Dar, son of Ghulam Mohammad Dar and resident of Attina, Beerwah, was traced to Hawal in Srinagar, police said. A team from Police []

SRINAGAR: Four persons were injured after a vehicle belonging to the 1st Battalion of the Border Security Force (BSF) met with an accident near Seri Bridge in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday. Officials said the vehicle was travelling from Srinagar towards Jammu when the accident occurred near the Seri Bridge. The injured []

SRINAGAR: A police party from Police Station Poonch, accompanied by a Forensic Science Laboratory team and a Naib Tehsildar, conducted a search of a jewellery shop at Main Market Poonch and recovered five AK-47 rounds, Pakistani currency and other material, police said. The search was conducted at the jewellery shop of Davinder Singh, son of []

SRINAGAR: A Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC), chaired by DIG SDRF/Civil Defence Kashmir Imtiyaz Hussain Mir, on Friday cleared the cases of 39 Selection Grade Constables of SDRF Kashmir for promotion to the 2nd Higher Standard Pay Scale, officials said. An official said that the DPC meeting was held at the Zonal SDRF/Civil Defence Headquarters, Kashmir, []

SRINAGAR: At least 27 people were killed and dozens of others injured after a suicide bomber targeted a mosque inside a police complex in Pakistans north-western city of Kohat during Friday prayers, according to multiple media reports. The bombing occurred in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, close to the Afghan border, as worshippers assembled for prayers, Al []

SRINAGAR: A Traffic Police head constable was killed after being hit by a truck in the Qazigund area of south Kashmirs Kulgam district on Saturday morning, reports said. The accident occurred near Shampora Bridge when a truck bearing registration number JK03Q-9011 allegedly lost control and struck the traffic police officer. The impact left the officer []

SRINAGAR: Russians began voting on Friday in a three-day parliamentary election to choose all 450 members of the State Duma, the lower house of the Federal Assembly, in the first nationwide parliamentary poll since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Voting opened in the countrys Far Eastern regions, including Kamchatka and []

SRINAGAR: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday attended a two-day conference on Financing Indias Journey towards Viksit Bharat, organised by the Union Ministry of Finance in New Delhi. The conference brought together State Finance Ministers and Finance Secretaries from States and Union Territories with legislatures to deliberate on financing challenges and policy priorities linked to []

SRINAGAR: Minister for Education Sakeena Itoo on Friday reviewed human resource management (HRM) matters in the School Education Department, including seniority lists, promotions, higher-post placements, regularisation, recruitment and service rules. At a meeting at the Civil Secretariat, officials informed the Minister that final seniority lists covering 21,323 PG Masters/PG Teachers across 32 disciplines had been []

SRINAGAR: Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Deputy Governor Rohit Jain has called on banks operating in Jammu and Kashmir to improve credit delivery, expand banking services to underserved sections and adopt the Unified Lending Interface (ULI) for faster loan processing. Jain made the remarks while chairing a meeting with zonal heads of major banks operating []

SRINAGAR: Rising temperatures and increasingly erratic weather are putting Jammu and Kashmirs major fruit economies under growing pressure. Apple yields in Kashmir are declining sharply, with summer warming and mango arrivals in Jammu falling substantially after recent heatwaves and hailstorms. A study, published in the International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and []

SRINAGAR: One person was killed and another seriously injured after a car skidded off the road and rolled down a gorge along the Kandi-Jamola road in Rajouri district on Friday. Officials said the vehicle went out of control before plunging off the road, resulting in the on-the-spot death of 25-year-old Mohd Arif. Another person, identified []

SRINAGAR: Police have seized 658 gold-coloured biscuits and coins from a vehicle during naka checking near Vessu on the Srinagar-Jammu highway in Qazigund and detained three persons for questioning. According to a police statement, a naka party intercepted a vehicle bearing registration number MP09CS0451 near Vessu and detained its three occupants. A search of the []

SRINAGAR: The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has seized 1,095 gold-coloured jewellery articles from an outlet in Jammu over suspected misuse of the BIS Hallmark/Standard Mark. The seizure was made during a search and seizure operation conducted by the BIS Jammu and Kashmir Branch Office at the jewellery outlet, the standards body said in a []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) has launched a citywide safety drive to identify and assess dilapidated and structurally unsafe buildings, particularly in the Old City and other areas where large numbers of people live or gather. JMC Commissioner Devansh Yadav said ward-level teams comprising engineers and enforcement officials have been formed to inspect potentially []

SRINAGAR: Employees of the National Health Mission (NHM) on Friday called off their strike following assurances from the Jammu and Kashmir government on their long-pending demands. The decision came after a meeting between representatives of the NHM employees and the government, during which several issues raised by the employees were discussed. NHM employees said the []

SRINAGAR: A study by researchers at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir (SKUAST-K) has found that poor pollination could be a major reason behind the widespread occurrence of the Hen and Chicken disorder in Sahebi grapes grown in Kashmir. The study, conducted by the Division of Fruit Sciences at SKUAST-K, Shalimar, has []

SRINAGAR: A special NIA court in Jammu has issued a non-bailable warrant against Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Saifullah, whom the National Investigation Agency has linked to the April 2025 Pahalgam attack and other attacks in Jammu and Kashmir. The warrant was issued on September 8 after the NIA told the court that Saifullah was operating from []

SRINAGAR: A separate and dedicated system has been put in place under the Jammu and Kashmir Cyber Coordination Centre (JK4C) and JK1C to deal with cybercrime cases and expedite complaints lodged by victims, SSP Crime Yaseen Kichloo said on Friday. Addressing a press conference, Kichloo said the new mechanism has been designed to ensure faster []

SRINAGAR: Gold prices bounced back sharply on Friday, rising Rs 1,600 to Rs 1,56,600 per 10 grams in the national capital as lower crude oil prices eased inflation concerns and encouraged investors to return to the precious metal. Gold of 99.9 per cent purity, including all taxes, had closed at Rs 1.55 lakh per 10 []

SRINAGAR: Police in south Kashmirs Shopian district on Friday attached a residential house and froze cash amounting to Rs 4,73,500, alleging that the assets had been acquired from proceeds of the illegal drug and narcotics trade. The residential property, located in Melhura village, stands on 1,065 square feet of land under Khasra/Survey No. 1327 and []

SRINAGAR: The body of a 29-year-old man was found in a field at Maharajpur village in the Ramgarh area of Samba district on Friday, reports said. According to the reports, local residents spotted the body lying in the field and informed the police. A police team reached the spot and initiated an investigation into the []

SRINAGAR:A car bomb killed at least 16 people, including five police personnel, in Kohat district of Pakistans Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Friday, Geo TV reported. According to a senior police official cited by local broadcaster Geo News, an explosives-laden vehicle rammed into the gate of the Old Police Lines, triggering the blast. Kohat District Hospital []

SRINAGAR: The Uri National Highway will remain temporarily closed to vehicular traffic on 20 September 2026 to facilitate hill-cutting work, according to an order issued by the Sub Divisional Magistrate, Uri. The permission for the closure was granted following a request from the Officer Commanding, 53 RCC (GREF), the order stated. The SDM has advised []

SRINAGAR: A balloon bearing the inscription PIA was found lying in a field at Khara Madan in Samba district on Friday morning, police said. According to officials, local residents noticed the balloon and informed Police Station Purmandal about the finding. A police team was subsequently dispatched to the location to verify the report and establish []

SRINAGAR: The High Court of Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh has sanctioned the establishment of a Resident Office in New Delhi to coordinate judicial and administrative matters involving the court at the national level. The sanction was accorded through Order No. 1468 of 2026/RG, issued by Registrar General M.K. Sharma on September 18, 2026. The Resident []

SRINAGAR: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) Kashmir of the Crime Branch Jammu and Kashmir has arrested a man in connection with an alleged Rs 93 lakh land and property fraud case, officials said on Friday. The accused, identified as Ghulam Mohi-Ud-Din Dar, son of Abdul Khaliq Dar and a resident of Jawalapora, Samson Budgam, was []

SRINAGAR: A man was killed allegedly following a quarrel during a birthday celebration near Lower Roop Nagar in Jammu on Thursday night, with police arresting two brothers in connection with the case within hours. The deceased was identified as Pawan Nair, also known as Sameer. Police said he was brought to Government Medical College (GMC) []

SRINAGAR: The death toll from the devastating flash floods in Nepal has risen to 1,410, while 6,145 people remain missing, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority. Rescue, relief and recovery operations are continuing across the affected districts as authorities work to locate missing people and assist those displaced by the floods. []

SRINAGAR: Health authorities in south kashmirs Kulgam district on Thursday conducted an audit, inspection and physical verification of 108 Advanced Life Support (ALS) ambulances deployed in the district to assess their operational preparedness and availability for emergency medical services. The inspection was carried out by Chief Medical Officer Kulgam Dr Shawkat Hussain Parray on the []

SRINAGAR: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), in collaboration with the Ladakh government, has launched a month-long in-person academic support programme. This programme is for students of Classes 10 and 12 in government schools across Ladakh. CBSE said that this programme is being conducted from 14th of this month to 14th of next month. []

SRINAGAR : Three residents of Kot Charwal area of Rajouri district have emerged as alleged members of a logistic support module linked to the proscribed Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) during further investigation into a terror module case, officials said on Thursday. The development came during the investigation into FIR No. 95/2026 registered at Police Station Dharamsal in []