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SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir will have 1,750 MBBS seats across 11 medical colleges for the 2026-27 academic session, 75 more than listed in the National Medical Commissions earlier seat matrix issued in July. The revised figures were published by the Medical Assessment and Rating Board (MARB) on September 18, 2026, as part of the NMCs []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has told the Legislative Assembly that it is following a regulated and sustainable approach to mineral extraction to balance environmental protection with the availability of construction material for developmental and infrastructure projects. The government gave the response in a written reply by the minister in charge of the Mining []

SRINAGAR: The Higher Education Department has recorded an 18 per cent rise in first-year admissions this year despite difficulties in making newly established degree colleges fully operational and weak student response to some newly introduced courses, Education Minister Sakina Itoo told the Legislative Assembly. Itoo was responding during the ongoing autumn session to concerns raised []

SRINAGAR: Three private members bills seeking prohibition of liquor in Jammu and Kashmir are among the first five bills listed for business in the Legislative Assembly on Thursday, raising the possibility of their introduction and discussion during the ongoing autumn session. The bills have been moved separately by PDP MLA Mir Mohammad Fayaz, BJP legislator []

SRINAGAR: As many as 109 enterprises have been established and reported operational in Lolab under Mission YUVA during the current financial year, with loans and subsidy assistance totalling Rs 6.58 crore, according to a Jammu and Kashmir Government reply placed before the Legislative Assembly. The figures were furnished by the Labour and Employment Department in []

SRINAGAR: A fire broke out in one of the floodlight towers at Bakshi Stadium in Srinagar late Wednesday night, officials said. Quoting officials, news agency GNS reported that soon after receiving information about the incident, men and machinery from the Fire and Emergency Services Department were rushed to the spot. A team from Fire Station []

SRINAGAR: A Russian Mi-8 military helicopter briefly entered Polish airspace near the countrys border with Russias Kaliningrad exclave on Wednesday, prompting the scrambling of fighter aircraft, Polands Operational Command of the Armed Forces said. The helicopter crossed into Polish airspace shortly after 11 am local time (0900 GMT) near Braniewo in northern Poland, the command []

SRINAGAR: Banks across the country, including Regional Rural Banks, will remain open on Sunday, September 27, to ensure uninterrupted banking services to customers ahead of a proposed three-day nationwide strike, the Ministry of Finance said on Wednesday. The decision has been taken in view of the strike called by the United Forum of Bank Unions []

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Bank Limited has appointed Chartered Accountant Rajeev Gupta as an Additional Director in the category of Rotational Directors on its Board, with effect from September 23, 2026. The appointment was approved by the banks Board of Directors at its meeting held on September 22 and remains subject to approval by the []

SRINAGAR: The High Court of Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh has assigned additional charge of members of the J&K Special Tribunal to Special Judge Pawan Kumar Sharma and One Man Forest Authority Manoj Parihar. Under Order No. 1800 of 2026/RG dated September 22, 2026, Sharma, Special Judge, Anti-Corruption (CBI Cases), Jammu, has been assigned additional charge []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Sports Council (JKSC) on Wednesday conducted Union Territory-level trials for the Sub-Junior Boys Football team at the TRC Synthetic Football Turf here to select players for the National Football Championship 2026. Young footballers from different parts of Jammu and Kashmir took part in the trials, showcasing their skills before the []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has said there is currently no proposal to establish or sanction a satellite campus of the University of Kashmir at Beerwah in Budgam district or at any other new location in the Union Territory. The Higher Education Department made the disclosure in response to Un-Starred D. No. 1/6/166 tabled []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Forest Department has said there is no delay on its part in processing proposals for diversion of forest land for developmental and infrastructure projects, attributing delays in cases where they occur primarily to incomplete proposals or failure by user agencies to upload the required documents on the PARIVESH portal. The []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Mining Department has said that no mining lease, permit or permission was cancelled, suspended or blacklisted across the Union Territory during the last three years, while a technology-based surveillance system is being used to detect suspected illegal mining and unauthorised transportation of minerals. The disclosure was made in response to []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly is scheduled to take up several issues of public importance, including the alleged non-functionality of ventilators at Government Medical College (GMC) Baramulla, shortage of functional water tankers in Sopore and closure of roads due to landslides, during its sitting tomorrow. As per the List of Business issued by []

SRINAGAR: A 70-year-old pedestrian succumbed to his injuries a day after being hit by a motorcycle at Achabal Chowk in south Kashmirs Anantnag district, officials said on Wednesday. Officials said the accident occurred on the morning of September 22 when a motorcycle bearing registration number JK02AV-4666, ridden by 19-year-old Asif Bilal, son of Bilal Ahmad []

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 []