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The outfit, however, demands Kashmir be turned into 2 UTs, one of them exclusively for ‘the victims of the Hindu genocide of the 1990s’, and that Jammu be made a separate state.
According to sources, more people die in road accidents than militant violence in J&K. More than 580 people have died and over 5,500 were injured in road accidents till August this year; against 805 dead and 8,372 injured in 2022.
“In the present instance, the issuance of arms licence in bulk after taking illegal gratification from gun house dealers/middlemen is in no way connected with official duties of concerned public servant,’’ it said.
No explosive material was found during the searches.
Talking to media persons in Samba, Jammu and Kashmir DGP RR Swain said that if anyone picking up drone dropped weapons is arrested, then they will be “degraded and disincentivised” in accordance with law.
The DGP also spoke about protests in the Valley over an alleged social media post on the Prophet by an NIT Srinagar student from outside Kashmir.
All these communities together are entitled to four per cent reservation in government jobs and admissions to professional colleges.
Meanwhile, sources said that the explosion appears to have been caused by a grenade apparently thrown by someone towards the place of worship where some construction work was already in progress.
Sources said Singh was picked up from a contractor’s house in Chowadhi area.
A family dispute was stated to be the cause of provocation.
According to the official order, Doda Deputy Commissioner Vishesh Paul Mahajan has been transferred and posted as Deputy Commissioner, Reasi, while Additional Deputy Commissioner, Jammu, is the new Deputy Commissioner, Doda.
Sheikh Abdul Rehman was taken to a Jammu police station last Friday night, and spent the night there, ahead of the planned solidarity meeting that was to be held the next day at Maharaja Hari Singh Park in Jammu.
A general administration department circular said all officials working on the government’s e-office platform are prohibited from accessing any sensitive data they do not have explicit authorisation to access.
The five-year term of elected Srinagar Municipal Corporation and Jammu Municipal Corporation will end on November 5 and 14 respectively, while that of municipal councils and committees by December 26 this year.
As part of the counter-infiltration strategy, the army is using landmines to plug the possible infiltration routes to stop armed terrorists from entering into the Indian side.
Referring to an article on a news portal on the UT administration awarding a multi-crore insurance contract to a private company under the PM Jan Arogya Yojana ignoring advice by its own departments, Sinha, without naming anybody, said the “writer of the article was himself an active part of the separatist ecosystem’’.
Rs 5 crore cash, fake passports and badges seized after raid, say police
Congress’ J&K president Vikar Rasool Wani threatened to intensify the agitation by organising a gherao of the civil secretariat and Raj Bhawan if the elections are not held and the statehood is not restored to J&K at the earliest.
This followed a request from the additional public prosecutor seeking time to comply with the court’s order dated September 15, as he had not received the status report from ACB headquarters.
This was revealed by Deputy Director Estates, Jammu, in his status report filed by senior additional advocate general SS Nanda in the Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh HC.
Tired of the hurdles, the little girl has now made a public appeal, urging people to donate at least 1 rupee each so that she can and other children in one of the remotest parts of the Union Territory can go to a “good government school’’.
The allottees cut across party lines and include Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) chief and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, ex-PDP MP and former minister Muzaffar Hussain Beigh and former BJP MLA and its J&K president Ravinder Raina.
According to the police, all four occupants of the truck, which was hit by a boulder rolling down from a mountain, died on the spot.
Brigadier (Retd) B D Mishra made the comments weeks after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s claim that not an inch of land has been lost in the Union Territory.
Each of the 2.40 lakh properties within JMC limits are being geo tagged and given a unique digital door number.