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SRINAGAR: Tap water existing only on paper, people in some areas still having to hire horses for “transporting drinking water to their houses”, water pipes abandoned and littered around at some places are some of the damning observations in the report by a J&K assembly committee that was formed to probe alleged irregularities in the…

JAMMU: Two policemen were found dead in a car under suspicious circumstances in Batote tehsil of J&K’s Ramban district Tuesday evening.“Locals spotted them lying unconscious and rushed them to the district hospital, where doctors declared head constable Farid Ahmed and constable Muhammad Yaqoob dead,” an official said.Police have launched an investigation to find the cause…

| TNNJammu: A joint police team from Jammu has arrested three suspected members of Khauf gang, a Jammu-based criminal syndicate, in Delhi. The trio includes Karanjit Singh alias Gugga, a murder accused wanted in 13 FIRs, who escaped a juvenile observation home in RS Pura along with two Pakistani inmates in Feb.Addressing reporters Wednesday, SSP…

SRINAGAR: J&K CM Omar Abdullah said Wednesday his elected govt had no role in deciding which books are banned or withdrawn from libraries, distancing his administration from the removal of 4,249 books after a screening of more than 21 lakh volumes across the Union territory over the past two months.“I have my own views on…

Srinagar: Ladakh LG VK Saxena approved Wednesday withdrawal of cases against 20 of the 81 people who faced criminal charges for “rioting and arson” after violent statehood protests in Leh last Sept 24 that left four people dead in police firing and wounded nearly 90.“The cases have been withdrawn under section 360 of BNSS on…

NEW DELHI: Only two women have been decorated till date with Ashoka Chakra, India’s highest peacetime gallantry award, and one of them received it posthumously for the CRPF. Not only this, Kamlesh Kumari, the CRPF constable who was the first to sound an alert when a Jaish-e-Mohammad suicide squad stormed into Parliament premises in a…