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Bhaderwah (Jammu and Kashmir), Aug 28(ANI): Colourful folk dances marked the annual three-day fair ‘Mela Patt’ celebrations in Bhaderwah sub-division of Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district.

The festival, which concluded on Thursday, is celebrated every year after it was started by Raja Nagpal, the 16th [...]

Jammu, Aug 21 (ANI): Fodder is scarcer, dearer in Jammu leaving the milkmen with little to feed their cattle. It has led to decline in milk production.

Continuous dry spell in the region is said to be responsible for the unprecedented hike in price of fodder especially wheat [...]

Jammu, July 9 (ANI): Satellite images of Jammu and Kashmir taken by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) have led to shocking revelations.

Tracts of forest areas and uncultivated patches of land in the region are found to be under illegal poppy cultivation. This [...]

Srinagar, July 4(ANI): Vice-President Mohammad Hamid Ansari on Saturday suggested that the issue of troop withdrawal and revocation of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from Jammu and Kashmir should be left to the Centre.

Ansari, who was the chairman of a working group on [...]

Bhadarwah ( J and K), May 24 (ANI): To bring higher education within the reach of people in isolated, remote and hilly areas of Jammu and Kashmir, the University of Jammu has set up an extension of its campus [...]

Jammu, May 3 (ANI): Activists of various Sikh organizations blocked the Jammu – Pathankot National Highway here today and burnt images of the Taliban and neighbouring Pakistan to express their anguish over the injustice meted towards Sikhs [...]

Jammu, May 3(ANI): Another two militants have been arrested after they entered India from Nepal carrying Pakistani passports, senior Superintendent of Police in Jammu said here today.

About half a dozen militants, holding Pakistani passports have been caught in Jammu and Kashmir during the past three months.

The [...]

Doda, Apr 23 (ANI): Voters in a remote village, about 1200 in number, have decided to boycott elections in Kashmir. They are angry particularly over the government’s indifference to 80 deaf and dumb villagers.

The village is located over 250 km from Jammu, with last 60 km drive on an ‘unmotorable’ road, followed by 14 [...]

Kathua, Apr 21 (ANI): Farmers living in a village in Jammu and Kashmir lamented about the lack of irrigation facilities.

70 per cent population from the Udhampur-Doda parliamentary constituency is dependent on agriculture and it is their only source of income.

Farmers of the hilly region are facing problems, as they are completely dependent on natural [...]

Samba, Apr 13 (ANI): As part of poll reparations, election officials have set up an alternative polling booths in a village near the India-Pakistan border in Samba sector of Jammu and Kashmir as a precautionary measure.

About 60 alternative polling booths have been set up along the Line of Control (LoC) as a precautionary measure.
“Suppose [...]

Jammu, April 2 (ANI): The hate speech of Varun Gandhi did not threaten national security in anyway and a law other than the National Security Act could have been invoked to deal with it, says Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.

In the [...]

Katra (J-K), Mar 28 (ANI): Devotees offered evening prayers at the famous shrine of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi as the nine-day Hindu festival of “Navratri” beganith religious fervour on Friday.

Nestling amidst Trikuta hills in the Himalayas, the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine and the base camp, the temple town of Katra in the foothills, present a [...]

Jammu, Mar 15 (ANI): A financial coordinator of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) was arrested and Rs 50,000 in hawala money recovered from his possession in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri District, police sources said here.

“Based on specific information about the movement of LeT aide Nazir Ahmed, resident of [...]

Jammu, March 9 (ANI): Territorial Army and police sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, fear that one of their personnel has deserted his unit and joined the Lashkar-e-Toiba.

Both claimed that Zafarullah, a soldier with the 169 Territorial Army, which is posted in Doda district, ran away with two rifles on Sunday morning.

Police said they [...]

Bhaderwah, Feb 11 (ANI): Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has begun work on opening an alternative road to connect Doda and Kishtwar in Kashmir that got cut-off after heavy rain washed off parts of a crucial highway last week.

Doda and Kishtwar districts were cut off from rest of the state, as heavy overnight rains washed off [...]

Rajouri, Feb 11 (ANI): Living semi-nomadic life and herding sheep and goats, Bakarwals, the nomadic tribe of Jammu and Kashmir, are demanding better facilities for their upliftment.

For centuries, Bakarwals have been leading a tough life in the high-altitude meadows of the Himalayas and the Pir-Panjal ranges.

Every year, they along with their families migrate from the [...]

Katra, Feb 4 (ANI): Muslim porters at the revered cave shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi in Kashmir have been earning the gratitude of Hindu devotees for many years.

Carrying luggage and children on their shoulder, porters popularly known as ‘pitthu’, say their work is one form of worship when they trek with the pilgrims along [...]

Jammu, Feb 5 (ANI): Noor Ahmed, a patient from Sialkot in Pakistan, suffering from hepatitis C, is undergoing treatment at the Government Medical College and Hospital in Jammu.

“I am under Dr. Guptaji’s treatment who earlier also treated two to three Pakistanis. He is very experienced. His observation is good,” said Noor Ahmed.

Ahmed is all [...]