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SRINAGAR: Srinagar has an estimated 64,416 stray dogs, while Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) has sterilised more than 50,000 dogs since 2014, with the Jammu and Kashmir Government acknowledging that the existing infrastructure and operational capacity for managing the stray dog population require further augmentation and strengthening. The figures were disclosed by the Housing and Urban []

SRINAGAR: The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), Jammu Bench, has quashed the Jammu and Kashmir Higher Education Departments decision to terminate the engagement of 16 academic arrangement faculty members from May 31, 2026, and directed the authorities to release their admissible remuneration for June and July within eight weeks. The Tribunal held that summer vacation is []

SRINAGAR: The Principal Sessions Court, Shopian, has sentenced a man to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh for the murder of a man during an altercation over an orchard-related dispute in 2019. Principal Sessions Judge Shopian Mehmood Ahmad Chowdhary convicted Bilal Ahmad Seh, son of Abdul Ahad Seh, a resident of []

SRINAGAR: Minister for Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs (FS&CA), Information Technology (IT), Youth Services & Sports, and Science & Technology, Satish Sharma, today said that 221 out of 355 Gram Panchayats (GPs) in Jammu and Kashmir have either existing or constructed playfields under the One Panchayat-One Playfield initiative. The Minister was replying to a []

SRINAGAR: Jammu division accounted for 14,17,028 reservation category certificates, compared with 3,45,446 in Kashmir division, according to figures presented in the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly on September 22, 2026, in a reply to a question by MLA Waheed-ur-Rehman Para. The data, covering the period from 2018 to 2026, provide a district-wise tally for Jammu []

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday said the Government would follow a destination-specific approach to tourism development rather than replicate the infrastructure model of Gulmarg across the Union Territory. Replying to questions from MLA Saif-ud-Din Bhat during the ongoing Autumn Session of the J&K Legislative Assembly, Abdullah, who also holds the []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Government is planning a series of infrastructure and tourism development measures to strengthen Jammu Division as a year-round tourist destination, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said in the Legislative Assembly. The government is focusing on upgrading infrastructure at existing and emerging tourist destinations, with major interventions planned at Suchetgarh, Shiv Khori, []

SRINAGAR: IAS officer Rahul Pandey has been posted as Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Hardoi in Uttar Pradesh, following his tenure in Jammu and Kashmir on inter-cadre deputation. A 2014-batch IAS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre, Pandey had served in several administrative positions in Jammu and Kashmir during his deputation, including Deputy Commissioner of Kathua []

SRINAGAR: The Union Ministry of Textiles has sanctioned Rs 14.90 lakh for two training programmes aimed at reviving the traditional crafts of Glazed Pottery and Copperware in Kashmir, the Handicrafts and Handloom Department said on Tuesday. The funds have been sanctioned to the Craft Development Institute (CDI), Srinagar, under the Guru Shishya Hastshilp component of []

SRINAGAR: The Food and Drugs Administration (FDA), Jammu and Kashmir, has prohibited the sale, storage, distribution and display of specified batches of four ghee brands across the Union Territory after laboratory tests found the products to be unsafe, sub-standard or both. The prohibitory order was issued on September 22 by Khalid Jahangir, Commissioner, Food Safety, []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Government will on Tuesday move a resolution in the Legislative Assembly seeking an amendment to the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, to exempt teachers appointed before January 1, 2019, from the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET). According to the list of business issued by the Assembly []

SRINAGAR: Two ladies were among six persons injured after a car lost control and overturned in the Bhalla area of Bhaderwah in Doda district on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday, officials said. An official said that an Ignis car was travelling through the Bhalla area when its driver lost control, causing the vehicle []

SRINAGAR: A 23-year-old law student from Kralgund in Kupwara district, Suhail Aijaz Langoo, died in a road accident in Chandigarh, according to information shared by local residents and Handwara MLA Sajad Lone. Lone, in a post on X on Tuesday, said Langoo was killed in an accident in Chandigarh and was pursuing a law degree. []

SRINAGAR: Six trains operating through the Jammu division will be diverted along alternate routes between September 21 and 27 due to scheduled construction work at Manawala station in Punjab, railway officials said. The diversions have been necessitated by pre-non-interlocking and non-interlocking blocks being undertaken for the construction of longer loops at Manawala station on the []

SRINAGAR: A 38-year-old newspaper vendor died after sustaining a gunshot wound to the head in the Resham Ghar area of Jammu on Thursday, with police saying they suspect it to be a case of suicide. The deceased was identified as Deepak Sharma, a resident of Resham Ghar. He was shifted by his family to Government []