As the bone-chilling winter descends upon the Himalayas and the 40-day period of Chillai Kalan grips Jammu and Kashmir, sources in the defence establishment have said that the Indian Army has intensified its counter-terrorism operations across the Kishtwar and Doda districts.
The four Rajya Sabha seats are vacant since February 2021 after which election to these seats could not be held in the absence of the assembly in J&K that was made a union territory in August 2019.
He accused the authorities of misusing a law meant to deal with terrorists against an elected representative, terming the move an attack on democratic rights.
The BJP-led government at the Centre seems unwilling to ease its grip over Jammu and Kashmir, Mehbooba said in her reaction on X.
The restriction will be enforced daily from 10 PM to 5 AM for the next two months, unless withdrawn earlier.
Speaking at a high-level workshop on the Incident Response System (IRS), the chief secretary said “Disasters often come without warning and in every such instance, citizens are the first responders. "
In a significant move to dismantle terror financing infrastructure, the State Investigation Agency (SIA) Kashmir on Friday conducted simultaneous search operations across Jammu, Doda, and Handwara, targeting suspected nodes of a cross-border conspiracy involving cryptocurrency-based funding for terrorism, said an SIA spokesman.
A video went viral during the day on the social media platforms wherein a person was publicly paraded, tied to the bonnet of a vehicle by the police personnel of police station Bakshi Nagar in the Jammu city.
Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Monday stressed upon the security forces to undertake intelligence-driven anti-terror operations in Jammu and Kashmir.
Kashmiri-Kannada feature film 'Harmukh' was released in Srinagar on Monday at Srinagar's iconic Tagore Hall.
