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| Will not send Dr Sahib empty-handed: Ruhullah reacts to Farooq’s resignation challenge | | |  Sanjay Pandita
Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 25: Dissident National Conference leader and Srinagar Lok Sabha MP Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi on Tuesday indicated that he would take a few days to decide his response to party president Dr Farooq Abdullah’s public challenge to resign from the Lok Sabha and seek a fresh mandate from the electorate.
Speaking to reporters, Ruhullah stopped short of announcing whether he would resign but said he was taking the veteran NC leader’s demand seriously and | |
| | | | Kishtwar minor death case: NCST likely to step in, team may visit Chatroo soon | | |  Muskan Thakur
Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 25: The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) is likely to send a team to Chatroo in Kishtwar district shortly to inquire into the alleged sexual assault, pregnancy and subsequent death of a Class V Gujjar Scheduled Tribe girl, following a complaint filed by the Tribal Gujjar Bakkerwal Welfare Foundation (TGBWF).
Highly placed sources said the Commission has taken serious note of the incident and decided to closely monitor the investiga | |
| | | | CM Omar calls for shared responsibility to shape future of J&K children | | |  Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 25: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said that the responsibility of shaping the future of our children cannot be placed on teachers alone, stressing that the Government, parents and teachers must work together to prepare children for a rapidly changing world.
Addressing a one-day Education Conference organized by the J&K Teachers Forum at Sher-i-Kashmir International Convention Centre (SKICC), the Chief Minister said teachers play a crucial role in determ | |
| | | | 1998 Wandhama Massacre: SIA re-opens investigation into killings of 23 KPs | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 25: The State Investigation Agency (SIA) has reopened investigation into the 1998 Wandhama massacre where 23 Kashmiri Pandits were brutally murdered in Jammu and Kashmir's Ganderbal district, officials said on Tuesday. The reopening of the Wandhama massacre case comes as the SIA has re-launched investigation into several cases involving the murder of Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley. Officials said the investigation seeks to identify the terrorists and the persons who assisted them, and establish their role in the Wandhama killings.
On January 25, 1998, terrorists entered homes of Kashmiri Pandit families in Wandhama village of the central Kashmir's Gander | |
| | | | Rape accused who escaped police custody arrested in Jammu | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 25: Police have arrested a rape accused, who had been absconding since escaping police custody around seven years ago, following a prolonged manhunt across the Jammu region, police said on Tuesday.
Separately, a notorious drug peddler was detained and lodged in jail under stringent PIT-NDPS Act provisions in Kishtwar, police said. In a significant breakthrough, Tousef Ahmed, a resident of Reasi district, who had escaped from police custody in 2019, was arrested in Jammu, a police spokesman said.
He said the accused was wanted in a case related to abduction and rape of a woman.
"Since his escape, the accused had gone to great lengths to evade arrest -- all | |
| | | | DGP Prabhat reviews security preparedness for Eid Milad, Raksha Bandhan | | |  Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 25: Director General of Police (DGP) J&K, Nalin Prabhat, IPS, on Monday chaired a high-level security review meeting at Police Control Room (PCR) Kashmir to assess and further strengthen security arrangements for the upcoming Eid Milad-un-Nabi and other forthcoming events across the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir The meeting also reviewed security preparedness for the Friday following Eid Milad-un-Nabi, Raksha Bandhan and other major events, with detailed | |
| | | | Recruitment rules obsolete, redundant, need urgent revision: JKPSC | | |  Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 25: Terming the existing recruitment rules as “obsolete” and “redundant,” the Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission (JKPSC) has recommended their urgent revision.
A Srinagar based news agency on Tuesday reported that in its Annual Report for 2025–26 the Commission has expressed serious concern over what it described as decades-old recruitment rules of government departments. “Recruitment Rules of most of the State Government Departments framed decades | |
| | | | Land records go digital, farmer services get smarter | | J&K advances AgriStack frame work under DILRMP | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 25: In a major step towards modernising land administration and creating a more transparent, citizen-centric system of Revenue and Agricultural services, Jammu and Kashmir has accelerated the digitisation and updation of land records while simultaneously preparing the verified land database for integration with the AgriStack framework of the Government of India under its Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme (DILRMP).
The exercise, being undertaken by the Revenue Department in collaboration with BISAG-N, covers nearly 70 lakh land parcels, with more than 2,500 Revenue field functionaries having been provided role-based access for data entry, | |
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