3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (661+ words) Leh/Jammu- Ladakh Chief Secretary Ashish Kundra on Thursday said the Centre and representatives of Ladakh are moving towards a framework for constitutional safeguards for the region under a special provision in Article 371 and the formation of a Union Territory-level…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (351+ words) Srinagar- Private schools in Jammu and Kashmir could soon face a much shorter list of government clearances under a proposal that Education Minister Sakeena Yatoo said she would pursue in the coming Assembly session. Yatoo said the government was considering…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (418+ words) Tanvir Sadiq, the National Conference MLA from Zadibal and the party’s chief spokesperson, has stirred a political storm with a remark about Kashmir’s past poverty. Speaking on the 44th death anniversary of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, he said poverty had once reached…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (103+ words) Srinagar- A 50-year-old labourer was killed after a wall collapsed at a crusher unit in the Mendhar area of Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday. Officials said the deceased was identified as Tasaduq Hussain, son of Said Mohammad,…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (204+ words) Jammu- A shopkeeper was seriously injured after he was allegedly assaulted with lathis by four people in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Wednesday. All four accused have been arrested. Three of them were arrested from Jalandhar…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (324+ words) Bhaderwah/Jammu- In a major crackdown on illegal felling and timber smuggling, the Forest Protection Force on Wednesday seized hundreds of illegally extracted deodar and green kail sleepers in Bhaderwah forest division of Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district, a senior…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (192+ words) Srinagar- Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena on Wednesday administered the oath of office to Justice Pushpendra Singh Bhati as Chief Justice of the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh. LG Saxena- who has been appointed to discharge the functions…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (152+ words) Jammu- A 32-year-old man died after he allegedly fell unconscious at a border police post in R S Pura sector near here early Wednesday, official sources said. The deceased, Uttam Chand, a resident of Rakh village, was called to the…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (111+ words) Kashmir Observer Srinagar- Three houses were gutted in a fire that broke out during the night in Khan Mohalla, Gurwait area of Budgam district of Central Kashmir, leaving six families homeless, officials said. An official said that the fire spread…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (718+ words) Walter Roper Lawrence spent the better part of a decade walking Kashmir villages with a chain, a notebook and a mandate to make sense of who owned what. By the time his settlement closed in the 1890s, the valley had something…...