In a landmark judgement by a Kashmir court, seven leading telecom companies have been asked to shell out around Rs 200 crore as entry fee into the state and faced with fine of Rs 10 lakh.
Two Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants were killed in a 15-hour gunfight with security forces in south Kashmir's Pulwama district on Saturday.
HT reports.
Kashmir legislator Abdul Rasheed today sought an FIR against the state education minister Peerzada Muhammad Sayeed in the exam cheating case.
Experts say sharia courts never existed in the Valley, such courts do not have any state backing.
Self-styled chief justice of Kashmir sharia court Mufti Bashiruddin, also mufti azam (grand priest), on Thursday toned down his language after his earlier fatwa (decree) against four pastors for converting Muslims allegedly through monetary allurement.
At minus 25 degrees Celsius, Kargil town in the Ladakh region Monday recorded the lowest temperature of the season anywhere in Jammu and Kashmir so far as severe cold continued across the Valley, an official said.
Legislator Abdul Rasheed has again pitched for an amnesty for 2002 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru and said he plans to seek a fresh resolution on the issue in the upcoming budget session of the J&K assembly.
Mobile phones across the Kashmir Valley stopped functioning as service providers shut off connectivity as part of the high security drill for the 63rd Republic Day on Thursday.
Two spells of heavy snowfall this month has Kashmir’s favourite dish off the menu: mutton. The non-availability of meat, sky rocketed in a state that consumes 51,000 tonnes of mutton annually.
In a first, the army on Wednesday conferred gallantry awards on Jammu and Kashmir police officers. The list of five, however, included two officers whose names had surfaced in connection with a custodial death in Sopore district in 2011, HT reports.
A BSF officer was killed while six other security personnel went missing after being hit by an avalanche near the LoC in Kupwara district on Tuesday.
The Srinagar-Jammu highway will remain open for one-way traffic on Monday as only stranded trucks and state owned buses will be allowed to move from Jammu to Srinagar.
The IAF on Saturday airlifted more than 1,000 passengers stranded between Jammu and Srinagar. Some 825 passengers were airlifted from Srinagar to Jammu and 550 from Jammu to Srinagar in six sorties, as the Jammu-Srinagar highway remained closed
Normal life in Kashmir was affected today with shops closed and a thin traffic movement as the Valley observed a shutdown to protest an erratic power curtailment schedule.