Day: December 24, 2025

Police Attach ₹3 Crore Worth Properties of Drug Peddler in Srinagar Srinagar- Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday attached properties worth Rs three crore of a notorious drug peddler here, alleging they were acquired through the proceeds of illicit drug trafficking. In its sustained efforts to eliminate the menace of drugs and dismantle the infrastructure…

Div Com Kashmir for In-Situ De-Addiction Mechanism in Educational InstitutionsStresses on concerted efforts for elimination of drug menaceSRINAGAR, DECEMBER 24: Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Anshul Garg, chaired a meeting on Wednesday to review and strengthen measures aimed at curbing the growing menace of substance abuse in the Valley.Emphasizing the need…

Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) headquarters Srinagar- The Jammu and Kashmir Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Wednesday filed a chargesheet for allegedly offering a bribe of Rs: 30,000 to the Superintendent of Police, City South Jammu. Officials said the bribe was allegedly offered in exchange for extending the date of an exhibition-cum-sale at Gole Market, Gandhi Nagar,…

New Delhi ~The Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) University has placed a faculty member of its Department of Social Work under suspension following complaints over the content of an end-semester examination paper, according to an official order issued by the varsity. The order, dated December 23, said the university received several complaints regarding the end-semester paper…

Balloons With Pakistani Symbols Found Near LoC in North Kashmir Srinagar- Security forces have recovered balloons carrying Pakistani symbols from two separate locations in North Kashmir, close to the Line of Control, prompting heightened vigilance in the border districts of Baramulla and Kupwara. Officials said a Pakistani flag attached to around ten balloons was sighted…

Representational Photo Srinagar- A CRPF jawan was injured after a leopard attacked him at a camp of the paramilitary force in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Wednesday, officials said. The leopard strayed into the CRPF camp in Kapran area of Verinag in south Kashmir while personnel were having breakfast in the mess, they said….

Vande Bharat Express Srinagar ~ In a moment that underscored how human recklessness can briefly outpace high-speed technology, a Vande Bharat Express was forced into an emergency halt late Tuesday after an unattended autorickshaw, allegedly driven by an intoxicated man, ended up squarely on the railway tracks, narrowly averting what could have been a major…

Indore ~ The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has told a special court in Indore that members of a syndicate involved in illegal ‘dabba trading’, or illegal and unregulated trading of securities, and online betting activities internationally earned Rs 404.46 crore through criminal means. The ED gave this information in a release on Tuesday. The central probe…

Govt approves 18% hike in transport fares in J&KJammu, Dec 24 (KINS):  The Jammu and Kashmir Government has approved an 18 per cent increase in public transport fares following a high-level meeting held here Tuesday evening.The meeting was chaired by Principal Secretary to the Government, Finance Department, Santosh D….

Sameer Hamdani with his book By Fiza Masoodi I stepped into City of Kashmir like a traveller entering streets shaped by empires, saints, and ordinary lives. It felt like walking beside Joseph Roth in Hotel Years, through narrow streets and scarred cafés, reading the small moments that captured a Europe in decline. Roth traced a wounded continent’s slow transformations….