New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and requested a special package for earthquake-hit districts of Doda and Kishtawar in Jammu region. During the meeting, the Chief Minister apprised the Prime Minister about the matters pertaining to peace and development in the state, according to a statement issued by the state government. "The focus of the discussion was recent earthquake which hit various parts of districts of Doda, Kishtwar and Ramban," it said, adding Omar sought a package similar to Leh cloudburst package of 2010 for this area.
"The Chief Minister, while giving details of the damages to the large number of public and private properties, demanded the package of relief for the affected people on the pattern the union government had sanctioned for Leh cloudburst survivors," the statement said.
The Prime Minister had announced a package of Rs 125 crore for Leh in 2010 for relief and rehabilitation of the affected people in the area. Highlighting the need for such relief, the Chief Minister said the earthquake sufferers of erstwhile Doda district which include Bhaderwah, Kishtwar and Ramban deserve the package for the backwardness of the area and poorer economic status of the people.
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07:44 PM, May 18, 2013
Bhaderwah: Three moderate intensity tremors shook Bhaderwah valley and adjoining areas of Doda-Kishtwar belt of Jammu in the wee hours on Wednesday, prompting authorities to once again shut schools in the region rattled by a series of quakes this month. However, there was no immediate report of any casualty or damage. The moderate intensity tremors of 4.8, 5.3 and 5.0 magnitude on the Richter Scale shook the area at 1:28...
11:40 AM, May 15, 2013
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday assured all possible help to victims of the earthquake in Doda and Kishtwar districts. "The government will extend all support to the quake victims of Doda and Kishtwar districts," Rural Development Minister Ali Mohammad Sagar said. Necessary instructions had been issued to concerned district administrations to assess the loss caused to various structures for providing necessary relief at the earliest, he said....
08:35 PM, May 01, 2013
Srinagar: A helicopter carrying Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah made an emergency landing in Kishtwar district of the state on Thursday afternoon. The helicopter made the landing shortly after take off due to a technical problem, but no one was injured. "The chopper carrying Omar Abdullah landed shortly after taking off from Kishtwar for Srinagar today. It had developed some technical problem," a senior police officer told PTI....
04:36 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Srinagar: In a shocking incident in Jammu and Kashmir, the state Home Minister Sajjad Kitchloo has allegedly slapped a senior government officer, Riaz Ahmed, in Kishtwar. The incident happened just hours before Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's visit to the area. Ahmed alleged he was slapped thrice by the minister. "When he slapped me for the third time, I asked him what was he doing. Then his people, security people and...
01:51 PM, Apr 18, 2013
A Kashmir court has directed the police to file a case after a teenage girl was allegedly raped and a porn video of the gruesome act was recorded in Kishtwar district of the state. Three truck drivers from the same district are accused in the case. ...
10:40 AM, Feb 27, 2013
Top Hizbul-Mujahideen commander Chota Hafiz, an accused in the 2011 Delhi High Court blast, was on Thursday killed in an encounter with security forces in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir. Hafiz, prime accused in the blast which claimed 15 lives, was killed in a joint operation of Special Operation Group of Police and Army in Kaderna forest belt, 238 kms from here, around 7.15 pm, Deputy Inspector General of...
11:36 PM, Dec 20, 2012
New Delhi: A village sarpanch of Kishtwar, Jammu and Kashmir, has been accused of raping a woman when she was alone at home with her five-year-old daughter. The man is on the run. The police have booked him for rape and criminal intimidation of woman and slapped additional charges of outraging modesty, intentional insult, theft and assault to woman under sections 342, 504, 382 and 354. ...
10:40 AM, Sep 27, 2012
Kishtwar: Troops from the 11 Rashtriya Rifles busted a militant hideout and recovered rifles and Chinese-made grenades in Kishtwar in Jammu and Kashmir. It is believed that the hideout was being used by a slain HuJI Commander. The recoveries included one rifle of 12 bore, three country made rifles, one magazine of SLR, two magazines of AK-47, two Chinese Grenades, one Grenade, one UBGL Grenade, 778 rounds of assorted ammunition,...
10:37 AM, Sep 17, 2012
Jammu: Two school teachers were arrested from different districts of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday in connection with two different cases. In Kishtwar, a teacher at a girls school was arrested for allegedly attempting to rape a student. The school has been shut for a few days. Meanwhile, in Baramulla, another teacher was arrested for allegedly verbally abusing a class 10 student, who had not performed well in his examinations....
09:52 AM, Sep 04, 2012
Kishtwar: It has been more than five years since 34-year-old Gulnaz Begum's face was sprinkled with acid over her refusal to close down a beauty parlour that she was running in Kishtwar. In the attack, she lost her eye and her face was disfigured. But the incident did not deter her and she continues to run the parlour. The mother of three, however, says she is still waiting for justice....
08:19 AM, Jul 16, 2012
Mumbai: Bollywood actress Laila Khan's grandmother will be crucial to solve the murder case of Laila and her family as her DNA samples would ascertain the identity of skeletons found at Igatpuri, Nashik, police said on Friday. "We will request Laila's grandmother to give her DNA samples," joint commissioner of police (crime) Himanshu Roy said. Besides, toxicology test will be done to find out if key accused Parveez Tak had...
10:30 PM, Jul 13, 2012
Mumbai: The Crime Branch of Mumbai police on Saturday got the permission from Kishtwar court of Jammu to bring forest contractor Pervez Tak to Mumbai in connection with Bollywood starlet Laila Khan abduction case. "We have got four days of transit remand," Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Himanshu Roy said on Saturday. Now, Tak will be brought to Mumbai and will be produced in a local court in four days....
08:14 PM, Jul 07, 2012
Kishtwar: An army jawan was late on Wednesday night killed in an ambush in a village in Kishtwar in Jammu and Kashmir following which the army cordoned off the area. According to latest reports, firing is continuing in the area from both sides. Meanwhile, the army has also launched search for Jahangir Sarori, a militant wanted in the Delhi High Court blast, who is believed to be one of the...
10:29 AM, May 03, 2012
Kishtwar: Two top militants of the Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) were on Sunday gunned down by security forces in a fierce gun-battle in the Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir. Acting on specific information about the presence of LeT militants in Dool-Banzwar forest belt in the district, troops of the 17 Rastriya Rifles and the police launched a cordon-and-search operation in the area to track them down, a senior police official said....
08:11 PM, Feb 26, 2012
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir recorded "zero infiltration" for the first time in 2011 despite several attempts along the Indo-Pak border, police said on Tuesday. "2011 is first year that has witnessed zero infiltration (along Indo-Pak border). There has been no infiltration anywhere along the border in Jammu region," IGP (Jammu Zone) Dilbagh Singh said in Jammu. "There have been ceasefire violations. There have been dozens of infiltration attempts but they...
07:29 PM, Jan 03, 2012
New Delhi: The investigation into the Delhi High Court blast is possibly in the final stages. According to sources, Dr Wasim Akram has been identified as a prime suspect and the NIA will produce him in court on Friday. Wasim is from Kishtwar and had allegedly sent emails to media houses claiming responsibility for the blast on behalf of banned terror outfit Harkat ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJI). Other conspirators have also...
10:36 AM, Oct 21, 2011
Jammu: Making some headway in its probe inthe Delhi High Court blast case, National Investigation Agency has recovered three mobile phones from Jammu and Kishtwar residence of a Kashmiri medical student who is the main suspect in the case. A team of NIA officials flew in a special aircraft to Jammu on Tuesday evening and seized two mobile phones from the house of Wasim Ahmed, a student of Unani medicine...
11:58 AM, Oct 19, 2011
New Delhi: Expanding its probe in the Delhi High Court blast, a National Investigating Agency(NIA) team went to Bangladesh to question some students from Kishtwar in Kashmir Valley studying in a medical college to ferret out details about their arrested college mate. The NIA team quietly left for Dhaka recently and has been quizzing some of the Kashmiri students studying in Jalalabad Ragib Rabeya Medical College and Hospital at Sylhet,...
05:52 PM, Oct 09, 2011
Kishtwar (J&K): The family of Kashmiri medical student Wasim Akram Malik, who has been arrested in the September 7 Delhi High Court blast case, claims that he is innocent. Wasim's family members say that he voluntarily appeared before the police and the National Investigation Agency (NIA). "I was informed by the NIA that Wasim is required for questioning (in connection with the Delhi High Court blast case) and in this...
10:27 AM, Oct 08, 2011
