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SRINAGAR: The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh at Srinagar has quashed a preventive detention order issued against a Srinagar resident under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, holding that the authorities failed to establish a live and proximate link between the alleged past criminal activity and the need for preventive detention, []

SRINAGAR: Welcoming MLA Tanvir Sadiqs initiative to introduce legislation in the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly to protect the housing rights of long-standing lakeside residents, 10 civil society and community organisations have called for expanding the proposed law beyond Dal Lake to cover traditional communities around Wullar Lake, Hygam Wetland, the Jhelum and other ecologically []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has said there is currently no proposal to increase the monthly medical allowance for its employees and pensioners from Rs 300 to Rs 1,000. The Finance Department conveyed the position in its reply to Unstarred D.No. 1/6/304, tabled by Hiranagar MLA Vijay Kumar, who had sought an increase in []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has said there is currently no proposal to establish a separate Tourism Development Authority for Karnah constituency, despite acknowledging the areas considerable tourism potential. The Tourism Department gave the information in response to Un-starred Diary No. 1/6/184 tabled by Karnah MLA Javaid Ahmad Mirchal in the J&K Legislative Assembly. []

SRINAGAR: The BJP on Wednesday announced new state in-charges and co-in-charges as part of a nationwide organisational reshuffle, naming senior leader Satish Poonia as the partys in-charge for Jammu and Kashmir and Reena Kashyap of Himachal Pradesh as co-in-charge. For the Union Territory of Ladakh, the BJP appointed Rajkumar Bhatia, a leader from Delhi, as []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has disclosed investment commitments of Rs 1,500 crore through four major MoUs signed with private companies since 2021, while stating that land allotment for industrial projects remains incomplete in Jammu and is still underway in Kashmir. The details were provided by the Industries and Commerce Department in response to []

SRINAGAR: Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir Dr Moulvi Mohammad Umar Farooq has questioned the withdrawal of 4,249 books described as objectionable from colleges and libraries across Jammu and Kashmir, with nearly 4,000 of them reportedly removed from institutions in Kashmir. The figure was disclosed by the government in the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly. In a post on X, []

SRINAGAR: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday said education and healthcare must remain the Jammu and Kashmir Governments foremost priorities, asserting that progress in these sectors was essential for children from the Union Territory to compete at national and international levels. Addressing students at the ALOHA National Level Competition (NLC)-2026 at the Sher-i-Kashmir International Convention []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has informed the Legislative Assembly that no Government Degree College has been sanctioned for Hardtooru in the Anantnag constituency, ruling out any ongoing process for identifying land for such an institution. The clarification was issued by the Higher Education Department in response to Unstarred D. No. 1/6/216, tabled by []

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir has not yet established a separate Division-level integrated real-time monitoring and control mechanism for its public health institutions, including district and sub-district hospitals, the Government has informed the Legislative Assembly. The Health and Medical Education Department said the existing supervisory system under the respective Directorates of Health Services is being used []

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmirs government departments and Central government establishments owe Rs 4,385.30 crore in outstanding electricity dues, while the Union Territory government will continue to bear more than Rs 4,500 crore in power subsidies despite a 6.83 per cent tariff hike, according to a Power Development Department (PDD) reply tabled in the Jammu and []

SRINAGAR: Police in north Kashmirs Baramulla district on Wednesday attached a double-storeyed residential house in Namblan village of the Sheeri area in connection with a terror-related case registered under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), officials said. The property, situated on Survey No. 423, belongs to accused Aijaz Ahmad Ganie, son of late Mohammad Sultan []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has proposed widening and upgrading the Zakura Crossing-Pandach chowk road at an estimated cost of Rs 35 crore under the Central Road and Infrastructure Fund (CRIF) 2026-27, the Legislative Assembly was informed. The proposal was disclosed in response to a starred question raised by Habba Kadal MLA Salman Ali []

SRINAGAR: Former Bigg Boss winner Gauahar Khan has reacted to the growing popularity of Bigg Boss 20 contestant Qazi Touqeer, saying she has been enjoying the social media reels being made in support of him. Gauahar, who won Bigg Boss 7, shared a video discussing the online trends around Qazi and said she was amused []

SRINAGAR: Two police personnel were found dead on a link road near Nashri in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir late Tuesday evening, according to a report published by Daily Excelsior. Daily Excelsior reported that the two personnel were found on the road near a private car belonging to one of them. Following the discovery, []

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 proposed four-laning of Boulevard Road between Nehru Park and Kralsangri is yet to move ahead as the project awaits statutory wildlife clearance besides completion of land acquisition and transfer formalities, the government informed the Legislative Assembly. The issue came up in the House through an unstarred question raised by MLA Ali Mohammad Sagar, []

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: Casual and daily-wage workers from various government departments staged a protest in Srinagar on Tuesday, seeking higher wages and regularisation of their services during the ongoing session of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly. The demonstration was organised by the Jammu and Kashmir Casual/Daily Wagers Forum and led by its president, Sajad Ahmed Parray. []

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: Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena has approved Leh as the initial place of sitting for the Sitting Bench of the High Court of Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh in the Union Territory of Ladakh, following a recommendation from the Chief Justice of the High Court. The approval follows a communication from the Registrar General of []

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: As many as 73 paramedical posts and seven posts of doctors are vacant in health institutions across the Budgam Assembly constituency, the Jammu and Kashmir Government informed the Legislative Assembly on Monday. The figures were provided in response to a starred question raised by MLA Aga Syed Muntazir Mehdi on infrastructure and human resource []

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: NIT-Srinagar is set to open a dedicated Observatory for Astronomy and Astrophysics equipped with a 14-inch advanced telescope, with the facility scheduled to be inaugurated on Tuesday. The observatory, known as the NIT-Srinagar Observatory for Astronomy and Astrophysics (NSOAA), is expected to make the institute the first National Institute of Technology in the country []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has directed the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to recover Rs 12.30 crore in environmental compensation imposed on construction company NKC Projects Pvt Ltd for violations linked to mining in Shaliganga Nallah. The disclosure was made in a written reply to a starred question raised by Chadoora MLA []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Government on Monday transferred JKAS officer Basharat Hussain, Chief Executive Officer of the Tourism Development Authority, Rajouri, and posted him as Secretary, JK Advisory Board for Development of Gujjar and Bakerwal, with immediate effect. The order was issued by the General Administration Department (Services) through Government Order No. 1544-JK(GAD) of []

SRINAGAR: Police have seized 18 vehicles across Baramulla, Shopian and Ganderbal districts for allegedly being involved in the unauthorised extraction and transportation of minerals, as part of an ongoing enforcement drive against illegal mining. In Baramulla, Police Post Mirgund seized a tipper bearing registration number JK05B-8719 after it was found carrying allegedly illegally extracted boulders. []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has placed Range Officer Grade-I Sajad Ahmad Khan, who was serving as In-charge Divisional Forest Officer (DFO)/Agrostologist, Kashmir, under suspension pending an inquiry into his conduct. According to a government order issued by the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF)/Head of Forest Force (HoFF), J&K, Khan has been suspended []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly is set to take up for consideration and passage a Bill seeking major changes to the cooperative societies framework in the Union Territory during its sitting on Tuesday. The Jammu and Kashmir Cooperative Societies (Amendment) Bill, 2026, will be moved by Minister for Cooperatives Javid Ahmad Dar, according []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir government has dismissed a government school teacher from service with immediate effect and disqualified him from future government employment under Article 311(2)(b) of the Constitution of India. As per government order number 388-JK (Edu) of 2026 dated 21.09.2026 issued by the School Education Department, the action has been taken against []

SRINAGAR: Police in Budgam district have solved a gold bangle theft case registered at Police Station Charar-i-Sharief by arresting a woman and recovering the stolen jewellery. The case was registered after police received a written complaint alleging that a gold bangle had been stolen from the wrist of the complainants mother during their visit to []

SRINAGAR: In a significant breakthrough for temperate sericulture in India, the Central Sericultural Research and Training Institute (CSBCSR and TI), Pampore, has developed and released the countrys first mulberry variety specifically designed for commercial cultivation in temperate and cooler climatic conditions. Named CPP-01 (PPR-1), the variety was formally dedicated to the nation by Union Textiles []

SRINAGAR: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) JK has registered an FIR against the then Branch Head of JK Grameen Bank, Reban branch in Sopore, and a Business Correspondent and others over alleged financial irregularities in the premature release of capital subsidies under the Prime Ministers Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP). The case, FIR No. 05/2026, has been []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has said no eligible and deserving family has been left uncovered under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY), with all eligible beneficiaries enrolled in the departments ration-card database under the existing rules. The government made the disclosure in response to an unstarred question by MLA Mir Mohammad Fayaz in the []

SRINAGAR: The restoration and upgradation of the Bohri Kadal-Khanyar Police Station-Noor Jahan Bridge (Qamarwari) road has been delayed due to execution-related procedures, interdepartmental coordination, technical and design changes, traffic management, adverse weather and other site-specific issues, the Jammu and Kashmir Government has said. The project, titled Improvement of Nallah-I-Mar Road from Khanyar (Police Station) to []

SRINAGAR: The Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) has a shortfall of 614 regular sanitation workers against its sanctioned strength of 1,726, with the government saying manpower is being rationalised and redeployed to maintain sanitation coverage across the city. The figures were disclosed by the Jammu and Kashmir Government in response to an unstarred question by Hazratbal []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission (JKPSC) and Jammu and Kashmir Services Selection Board (JKSSB) have finalised 7,580 selections since October 2024, the Jammu and Kashmir Government has informed the Legislative Assembly. Of these, 1,768 selections were finalised by the JKPSC and 5,812 by the JKSSB, according to a written reply to an []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has said a 30 million litres per day (MLD) sewage treatment plant is under construction at Gupt Ganga to address untreated wastewater entering the Dal Lake from areas that remain outside the sewerage network. The Sewage Treatment Plant (STP), being constructed by the Urban Environmental Engineering Department (UEED), along []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has identified 1,044 additional Anganwadi Centres as required in uncovered and underserved areas across the Union Territory, even as it said the Government of India is currently not granting fresh approvals for opening new centres. The figures were disclosed by the Social Welfare Department in a written reply to []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has said there is currently no proposal to introduce a separate Rural Allowance for employees serving in rural and remote areas of the Union Territory, including teachers and doctors. The Finance Department conveyed the position in a written reply to an Un-Starred Question by MLA Sajad Shafi (Uri) regarding []