Jammu and Kashmir Government on Thursday constituted State and Divisional Level Committees to conduct preparatory work for Panchayat and Urban Local Bodies. According to an order issued by the General Administration Department (GAD), for the State Level Committee Principal S...More

Jammu and Kashmir has been allocated a collective target of 1150 MW to be achieved by the end of 2022 out of which 450 MW have to be achieved through Grid Connected Rooftop Solar Power. This information was given at a meeting called to review the functioning of Science &...More

The Jammu and Kashmir government on Thursday asked its Departments not to depute any officer or official for training outside the state or country, without the prior approval of the General Administration Department (GAD). ''It has been observed that some Departmentsdepute o...More

A Punjab resident was crushed to death by a train in the city outskirts on Srinagar-Budgam track on Thursday afternoon, official sources said. Twenty-eight-year-old Arjun Kumar, resident of Pathankot, Punjab died on the spot when a train crushed him at Wanabal, Rawalpora in ...More

At least seven persons, including a woman and her daughter, were injured when a vehicle in which they were travellingmet with an accident on Baramulla-Uri road on Thursday, officialsource said. They said a passenger vehicle on way to Uri turned turtle at Magray Mode Garkote ...More

As many as 86 personnel of the Jammu and Kashmir police security wing were granted promotion on Thursday, a police spokesman said. He said Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Security, Home Guard and Law & Order, Muneer Ahmad Khan granted in-situ promotion to th...More

A labourerwas killed when a portion of stone quarry caved in central Kashmir district of Ganderbal on Thursday, official sources said. A group oflabourers wereworking at a quarry at Kondabal Mansbal in Ganderbal when a portion of it suddenly gave way. Bashir Ahmad Malla was ...More

A joint team of Police and Andy cordoned off the Batpora area of Handwara district this afternoon. Reports said that as joint team of Police and Army closed onto the suspected spot the hiding militants fired upon governmentforces triggering an encounter. Intermittent exchang...More

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will shortly issue Rs 100 denomination banknotes in the Mahatma Gandhi (New) Series, bearing the signature of the bank's governor, Dr Urjit R. Patel. However, all the existing banknotes of the same denomination issued by the Reserve Bank in th...More

The state police on Thursday reunited the missing deaf and dumb Srinagar boy with his family from south Kashmir’s Anantnag district. Earlier, police on July 17 had appealed the general public through social media to help in tracing a missing deaf and dumb boy. After ma...More

The Congress on Thursday expressed disagreement over Home Minister Rajnath Singh's statement on mob lynching and said that it was "not satisfactory". "The Home Minister's statement in Lok Sabha on mob lynching was at all, that is why we staged a walkout from the house. This ...More

Shiv Sena will vote in favourof the BJP-led government during the opposition-sponsored no-confidence motion in Lok Sabha tomorrow, a source close to party chief Uddhav Thackeray said. "We will support the BJP. A formal announcement may be made by this evening," the source to...More

Fourteen people were killed and 17 injured when the state-run bus they were travellingin fell into a deep gorge around 15 km from Chamba town in Tehri district this morning, a senior official said. The accident occurred near Kirgani on Rishikesh-Chamba-Gangotri highway aroun...More

A statue of Bhimrao Ambedkar was damaged in Rampur Asli village in Ballia today, a police official said, the second such incident in about a month in the district. Anti-social elements damaged the statue this morning, Superintendent of Police S P Ganguly said. The face and a...More

Congress President Rahul Gandhi today attacked the BJP government over proposed changes to the Right to Information Act, saying they will render the law useless. The proposed amendments, circulated among Members of Parliament, seekto do away with the parity given to informat...More

An nineteenth batch of 2617 pilgrims on Thursday left from Bhagwati Nagar base camp here for Amarnath Cave Shrine in a convoy of 81 vehicles. “The pilgrims left from here to perform pilgrimage from both Baltal and Pahalgam routes,” an official here said. He said ...More

Seven people were injured in a road accident in Uri sub division of north Kashmir’s Baramulla on Thursday. Reports said that a passenger sumo bearing no JK11 2844 met with an accident at Garkote near Magray Mor, resulting in injuries to seven person. The vehicle was on...More

Suspected militants fired upon a police party at Bypass road Sopore in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Thursday morning. A police official told Rising Kashmir that bike borne militants fired upon a police party near famous shrine of Sufi Saint Ahad Bab on bypass ...More

A 35-year-old woman was killed after being hit by a train in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir, a railway police official said today. The woman was crossing railway tracks near Raya Morh when she was hit by trainlast evening, the official said, adding she died on the spot....More

A 60-year-old Village Defence Committee (VDC) member allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir, a police official said today. Baljeet Roy was found dead with a gunshotin his chest at Luddu Kansarvillage yesterday, the official sai...More

About 2,000 yatris Thursday morning left base Baltal and Nunwan Pahalgam base camps for the holy Amarnath cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas. Over 2.09 lakh pilgrims had paid obeisance at the holy cave since the commencement of the 60-day-long pilgrimage from June 28. Th...More

Militants hurled a hand grenade at a police post in Watergam area of Rafiabad, in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Wednesday evening. Police told Rising Kashmir that the grenade exploded on the road side without causing any damage. A police official told Rising Ka...More