Jammu

The students from Government High School, Dharana, generally come from impecunious families whose primary occupation is daily labour, which had wide implications on the students like lack of exposure to the modern outside world, the officer said.

The Army rescued around 30 civilians after their vehicles came under an avalanche triggered by recent snowfall in border district of Kupwara in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Tuesday.

PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday said she is not taking back those leaders who have deserted the party even though many of them are willing to return.

A man was arrested for allegedly kidnapping and raping a girl from Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir, the police said today.

J&K government has taken over the Kashmir Press Club - the biggest journalists' body in the Valley - citing a potential law-and-order situation, and has also cancelled allotment of land and buildings, and handed the club to its Estates Department.

The Jammu and Kashmir administration has detained a journalist, Sajad Gul, under the Public Safety Act, a day after a court granted him bail in connection with a police case that accused him of criminal conspiracy.

The father of an Army Aviation pilot who died in a crash in Jammu and Kashmir last year has written to President Ram Nath Kovind, requesting him to make it mandatory for all army pilots to undergo underwater survival training.

A leopard was found dead in a forest area in the Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, said officials of the Wildlife Department.

Amid the surge in COVID-19 cases, the Jammu and Kashmir administration on Saturday re-imposed weekend lockdown and said that night curfew shall continue to remain in force in all districts from 9 pm-6 am with complete restrictions

The Jammu and Kashmir administration has suspended the registration of Kashmir Press Club citing adverse report by Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of J&K police.

The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway will reopen for one-way traffic on Saturday after remaining closed for the past three days owing to heavy snowfall and landslides in Ramban district, officials said.

An earthquake of magnitude 5.3 on the Richter scale hit Jammu and Kashmir on Friday, but there were no reports of any loss of life or damage to property, officials said.

The minimum temperature dropped at most places in Kashmir on Friday as the intense cold wave conditions continued in the valley, officials said.

This is for the first time when students in the Muslim majority region have been asked to participate in Surya Namaskar which many Muslims say is unacceptable and against basic tenets of their faith.

Two Army personnel died in a mysterious firing incident along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district on Thursday, officials sources said.

The students from Government High School, Dharana, generally come from impecunious families whose primary occupation is daily labour, which had wide implications on the students like lack of exposure to the modern outside world, the officer said.

The Army rescued around 30 civilians after their vehicles came under an avalanche triggered by recent snowfall in border district of Kupwara in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Tuesday.

PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday said she is not taking back those leaders who have deserted the party even though many of them are willing to return.

A man was arrested for allegedly kidnapping and raping a girl from Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir, the police said today.

J&K government has taken over the Kashmir Press Club - the biggest journalists' body in the Valley - citing a potential law-and-order situation, and has also cancelled allotment of land and buildings, and handed the club to its Estates Department.

The Jammu and Kashmir administration has detained a journalist, Sajad Gul, under the Public Safety Act, a day after a court granted him bail in connection with a police case that accused him of criminal conspiracy.

The father of an Army Aviation pilot who died in a crash in Jammu and Kashmir last year has written to President Ram Nath Kovind, requesting him to make it mandatory for all army pilots to undergo underwater survival training.

A leopard was found dead in a forest area in the Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, said officials of the Wildlife Department.

Amid the surge in COVID-19 cases, the Jammu and Kashmir administration on Saturday re-imposed weekend lockdown and said that night curfew shall continue to remain in force in all districts from 9 pm-6 am with complete restrictions

The Jammu and Kashmir administration has suspended the registration of Kashmir Press Club citing adverse report by Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of J&K police.

The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway will reopen for one-way traffic on Saturday after remaining closed for the past three days owing to heavy snowfall and landslides in Ramban district, officials said.

An earthquake of magnitude 5.3 on the Richter scale hit Jammu and Kashmir on Friday, but there were no reports of any loss of life or damage to property, officials said.

The minimum temperature dropped at most places in Kashmir on Friday as the intense cold wave conditions continued in the valley, officials said.

This is for the first time when students in the Muslim majority region have been asked to participate in Surya Namaskar which many Muslims say is unacceptable and against basic tenets of their faith.

Two Army personnel died in a mysterious firing incident along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district on Thursday, officials sources said.