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SRINAGAR: Chief Secretary Atal Dulloo on Monday said the International Film Festival of Jammu & Kashmir (IFFJK) would help put the Union Territory on the global cinematic map by showcasing its landscapes, cultural heritage and creative talent to filmmakers and audiences from across the world. Dulloo was speaking at the inaugural ceremony of IFFJK-2026, held []

SRINAGAR: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Monday called for responsible and human-centric use of Artificial Intelligence, saying technology must remain anchored in ethics, core values and strict human oversight to ensure it serves the collective well-being of society. Addressing the IIT (BHU) Global Alumni Meet in Chicago, Illinois, Sinha said AI would play a major []

Filmmakers from over 30 countries to participate; over 130 films to be screened over four days

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has asked applicants seeking compassionate appointment under SRO-43 of 1994 to submit their email IDs and contact details to the General Administration Department (GAD) within 21 days for verification of their character and antecedents. According to a notice issued by the GAD on Monday, the applicants listed in Annexure-A []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Government on Monday ordered the transfer and posting of three Chief Engineers in the Jal Shakti Department with immediate effect. According to Government Order No. 150-JK (JSD) of 2026, Dev Raj Bhagat, presently posted with the Jammu and Kashmir Power Development Corporation (JKPDC), has been appointed Chief Engineer, Irrigation and []

SRINAGAR: The autumn session of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly is shaping up to be a packed affair, with legislators submitting 650 questions, 16-17 Private Member Bills, and around 50 resolutions, sources disclosed. Officials disclosed that the Assembly Secretariat has received around 650 questions from MLAs. Each legislator was permitted to submit eight questions- []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (NC) on Monday paid glowing tributes to party founder and former Jammu and Kashmir prime minister Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah on his 44th death anniversary, describing him as the architect of modern Jammu and Kashmir. In a joint statement, senior NC leaders remembered Sheikh Abdullah as a farsighted and []

SRINAGAR: Two Egyptians performing Umrah were killed and 25 others injured when a bus carrying pilgrims crashed near the Saudi city of Al-Jumum while travelling from Medina to Mecca, Egypts Foreign Ministry said on Sunday. The bus was carrying 47 Egyptian pilgrims when the crash occurred on Saturday evening, the ministry said in a statement. []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has assigned Dr Nighat Yasmeen, In-charge Deputy Director, Headquarters, Directorate of Health Services Kashmir (DHSK), the temporary charge of Director Health Services, Kashmir. The order, issued by the Health and Medical Education Department on September 7, said Yasmeen will hold the charge in addition to her existing duties until []

SRINAGAR : Jammu and Kashmir Bank is contemplating a special One-Time Settlement (OTS) scheme for stressed borrowers in Jammu and Kashmir and may unveil it alongside the new Industrial Policy being formulated by the Union Territory administration, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Amitava Chatterjee has said. Chatterjee made the disclosure during a marathon meeting []

SRINAGAR: Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir (SKUAST-K) has partnered with the Bio-Enzyme Entrepreneurs Academy of India, Bengaluru, to promote bio-enzyme entrepreneurship as a waste-to-wealth opportunity and create self-employment avenues for students, farmers and rural entrepreneurs in Jammu and Kashmir. The collaboration was formalised on Monday with the signing of a Memorandum []

SRINAGAR: The High Court of Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh has transferred Principal District and Sessions Judge, Anantnag, Tahir Khursid Raina, and posted him as Principal District and Sessions Judge, Jammu, against a vacant post. The transfer was ordered by the High Court through an order issued by its Registrar General. Following Rainas transfer, the Additional []

SRINAGAR: Medical interns from 10 Government Medical Colleges and two Dental Colleges across Jammu and Kashmir began a 48-hour hunger strike on Monday after talks with the government failed to resolve their demand for an enhanced monthly internship stipend. The hunger strike follows a seven-day protest by the interns, who said they would continue their []

SRINAGAR: The first International Film Festival of Jammu and Kashmir (IFFJK) began in Srinagar on Monday, featuring 135 shortlisted films from India and abroad and aiming to strengthen the regions links with the national and international film industry. The four-day festival, being held from September 7 to 10, received more than 1,100 entries from 80 []

SRINAGAR: A Pakistani national who allegedly crossed into Indian territory inadvertently was handed over to the Pakistan Rangers along the International Border in Jammu on Monday, officials said. The man, identified as Nazir Sadhir, a resident of Luni Pundra village in Sialkot, was handed over by the Border Security Force (BSF) to the Rangers at []

SRINAGAR: Police have busted an inter-state narcotics smuggling network in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir with the arrest of four persons and the seizure of 2.672 kg of opium, Police said on Monday. The action followed credible intelligence about the movement of narcotics, prompting a team from Lakhanpur police station to establish a checkpoint []

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Bank has warned customers against fraudulent investment schemes being circulated on Telegram and other social media platforms using the banks name and branding to promise quick and unrealistic financial returns. The bank said the messages are unauthorised and may be designed to deceive people into sharing personal or banking information or []

DELHI Yasin Malik, jailed chief of the banned JKLF, has denied any role in the April 1990 abduction and killing of Kashmiri Pandit nurse Sarla Bhat, saying he was himself fighting for his life when the crime took place. In a 25-page affidavit before a Srinagar court, Malik said he was critically injured after jumping []

SRINAGAR: The Central University of Kashmir (CUK) has clarified that delays in holding the Convocation will not affect the entitlement of eligible first-rank holders to Gold Medals prescribed under the universitys rules. The clarification was issued through a circular by the universitys Examinations and Evaluation Wing (EEW) on September 1, 2026, stating that the First []

SRINAGAR: The BJPs Jammu and Kashmir unit will send its MLAs on a district-wide public outreach programme from September 7 to 20 to gather public grievances and raise them during the forthcoming Assembly proceedings, the party said. The programme was finalised at a meeting of BJP legislators held at the party headquarters in Trikuta Nagar, []

SRINAGAR: Veterinary students in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday staged a peaceful protest over the long-pending demand for enhancement of their internship stipend, days after MBBS and BDS interns intensified their own agitation over stipend revision. The Jammu and Kashmir Veterinary Students Association (JKVSA), representing students of SKUAST-Jammu and SKUAST-Kashmir, organized the protest and has []

SRINAGAR: Intern doctors of the 2021 MBBS batch at SKIMS Medical College, Bemina, began a hunger strike on Monday over their demand for revision of the internship stipend, saying they will continue the protest until the government issues a formal written order. The interns said the decision followed several rounds of discussions and assurances with []

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir-born 2017-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Vikrant Bhushan has been posted as Superintendent of Police (SP), Haryana State Narcotics Control Bureau (HSNCB), Panchkula, following an order issued by the Haryana Government on September 5. A Haryana-cadre IPS officer, Bhushan has held several policing assignments in the state, including SP of Sirsa []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has accorded ex-post facto sanction to the deputation of IAS officer Ananth Dwivedi, Mission Director, Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), JK, for attending the Uttar Pradesh: AI and Health Innovation Conference in Lucknow. The sanction was issued through Government Order No. 667-JK(HME) of 2026, by the Health and Medical []

SRINAGAR: Northern Army Commander Lt Gen Pratik Sharma visited hinterland units in South Kashmir to review the prevailing security situation and assess the operational preparedness of troops deployed in the region. During his visit, Lt Gen Sharma took stock of the preparedness of the units and emphasised the need for sustained alertness to effectively respond []

SRINAGAR: Inspector General of Police, Kashmir Zone, Sujit Kumar on Sunday reviewed the security situation, counter-terror operations and law-and-order scenario during visits to Pulwama district and Awantipora police district. Kumar, accompanied by Deputy Inspector General of Police, South Kashmir Range, Javed Iqbal Mattoo, chaired separate review meetings with senior police officers in both jurisdictions. The []

by Asif Iqbal Naik SRINAGAR: The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh has sought clarification from the Police Headquarters on whether the transfer of the investigation into FIR No. 34/2026 of Police Station Chatroo to the Crime Branch, Jammu, was accompanied by directions to constitute a Special Investigation Team headed by a senior []

SRINAGAR: Employees working under the National Health Mission (NHM) in Jammu and Kashmir have announced a 72-hour Union Territory-level strike from September 9, alleging that the government has failed to address their long-pending demands. The decision was taken during a virtual meeting of the UT-level Joint Coordination Committee of NHM Employees on September 5, attended []

SRINAGAR: Bihar Governor Lieutenant General (Retd) Syed Ata Hasnain on Sunday called on Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah at his residence in Srinagar. During the meeting, Hasnain and Abdullah exchanged views on a range of issues of mutual interest. Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and National Conference president Dr Farooq Abdullah was []

SRINAGAR: The Municipal Council Poonch has cleared around 1,900 metric tonnes of legacy solid waste that had remained dumped near the Poonch River for nearly two decades, following intervention by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) and sustained efforts by environmental activists. The waste was cleared from the Shanti Nagar dumping site near Sher-e-Kashmir Bridge over []

SRINAGAR: Traffic Police has announced restrictions and diversions in parts of Srinagar on Monday ahead of the inauguration of the first International Film Festival of Jammu Kashmir (IFFJK) at the Sher-i-Kashmir International Convention Centre (SKICC), with increased traffic movement towards the venue expected after 4 pm. SSP Traffic City Srinagar Aijaz Ahmad Bhat said Gupkar []

SRINAGAR: District Magistrate Doda Krishan Lal has ordered a complete prohibition on the use of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) across the district, citing concerns over their alleged misuse to circumvent lawful cyber restrictions. The order has been issued under Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023, following reports that certain individuals and []

SRINAGAR: India has backed a United Nations General Assembly resolution promoting the use of equal-area world map projections, while making it clear that any depiction of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh must conform to Indias official map. The Ministry of External Affairs on Sunday said New Delhi voted in favour of the resolution but underlined []

SRINAGAR: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said Jammu and Kashmir has progressed on the path of development since the abrogation of Article 370, claiming that separatist sentiment in the region has reduced considerably. Addressing a press conference on narcotics control in Panaji, Shah said the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir had changed []

SRINAGAR: At least eight people were injured after a Tata Sumo rolled down on the Bedar-Dunogam link road in Mandi area of Poonch district on Sunday, officials said. Officials said the vehicle, bearing registration number JK12-6675, was travelling on the Bedar-Dunogam link road when it met with an accident at Bedar and rolled down, leaving []

SRINAGAR: A woman was killed and two others injured after a load carrier collided with an e-rickshaw on Dhar Road in the Billawar area of Kathua district on Sunday, officials said. Quoting an official, the news agency KNO reported that the accident occurred near Darmani when the load carrier collided with an e-rickshaw carrying three []

SRINAGAR: Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology-Kashmir (SKUAST-K) has identified aquatic agriculture, crop diversification, protected cultivation and value addition among key areas for strengthening farm incomes and livelihoods in Bandipora. The focus emerged during the 20th Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) meeting of Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) Bandipora, held on Friday under the chairmanship of []

SRINAGAR: The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh has quashed the preventive detention of a Pulwama man under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, holding that the authorities failed to establish a live and proximate link between his past conduct and the need for his continued detention. Justice M A Chowdhary, in []

SRINAGAR: A man died after falling under a moving truck in the Chankhan area of Sopore in north Kashmirs Baramulla district on Sunday, officials said. Quoting an official, the news agency KNO reported that the man fell from the moving truck and came under its wheels, sustaining critical injuries. He was rushed to a nearby []

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Conference president Sajad Gani Lone on Saturday questioned the political intent behind Chief Minister Omar Abdullahs protest in Srinagar on September 2, followed by his meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi two days later. Lone described the sequence of events as a theatre of the absurd, []

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir is likely to witness scattered rain and thunderstorms in the Jammu division and isolated light rain or thunderstorms in Kashmir during the next 24 hours, according to the Meteorological Centre Srinagar. The weather department, in its bulletin issued at 11 am on Sunday, said isolated light rain or thunderstorms are also []

SRINAGAR: A study of undergraduate medical students in three government medical colleges in Kashmir has found that irregular sleep patterns are widespread, with two-thirds of students going to bed after midnight and late bedtime emerging as an independent predictor of poor sleep quality. The researchers found that students who slept after midnight had 5.49 times []

SRINAGAR: A 36-year-old pedestrian was killed after being hit by an unidentified vehicle at Fisheries area of Kokernag in south Kashmirs Anantnag district late Saturday night. Officials said the deceased was identified as Tariq Ahmad Kalas, son of Mohd Shareef Kalas, a resident of Shalnard, Lisser, Kokernag. According to officials, Tariq was struck by an []

SRINAGAR: The inaugural International Film Festival of Jammu Kashmir (IFFJK) will begin on September 7, with a four-day programme bringing filmmakers, artists and delegates from India and abroad together in the Valley. The festival will be inaugurated with musical performances by Jaan Nissar Lone, Rani Hazarika and Palak Muchhal, while singer Usha Uthup will lead []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir School Education Department has proposed a new transfer policy for Rehbar-e-Taleem (RReT) teachers, Grade-II and Grade-III teachers, aiming to rationalise staff deployment, address shortages in underserved areas and balance teacher welfare with students academic needs. The draft Jammu and Kashmir Regularised Rehbar-e-Taleem (RReTs) Teacher Transfer Policy 2026 has been issued []

SRINAGAR: National Health Mission (NHM) employees across Jammu and Kashmir have announced a 72-hour Union Territory-wide strike from September 9 over the Governments failure to address their long-pending demands. The strike will involve NHM employees working at district, block and field levels in both Jammu and Kashmir divisions, including personnel engaged under the National Tuberculosis []

SRINAGAR: The Centre has appointed Justice Pushpendra Singh Bhati as the new Chief Justice of the Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh High Court as part of a set of appointments to the top judicial posts of eight High Courts across the country. The Union Law Ministry issued formal notifications on Sunday announcing the appointments. Along with []

SRINAGAR: A 36-year-old man was killed after being struck by an unidentified vehicle in the Fisheries area of Kokernag in south Kashmirs Anantnag district on Sunday, officials said. The deceased was identified as Tariq Ahmad Kalas, son of Mohammad Shareef Kalas, a resident of Shalnard, Lisser, Kokernag. According to officials, Kalas suffered critical injuries in []

by Michael Froman The World Nomad Games showcase Central Asias growing geopolitical importance as regional alliances, energy interests and cultural ties reshape global power. In just the last few weeks, the United States has paused and resumed its military operations against Iran; U.S.-Canada tensions spiked after trade talks collapsed; U.S. government debt tipped over the []

by Ghulam Quadir Jeelani Teachers Day should prompt educators to examine their role, embrace empathy, authenticity and experiential learning, and become mentors shaping confident, responsible citizens. Every year, Teachers Day is celebrated across the nation to honour the birth anniversary of Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the second President of India, a renowned philosopher, scholar and teacher. []