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Imams free to decide Friday sermon topics, says Darakhshan Andrabi

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Waqf Board chairperson Darakhshan Andrabi on Tuesday said imams, khateebs and religious scholars were free to decide the...

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Jammu & Kashmir

Gurez shuts down as residents protest pregnant woman’s death; probe ordered

Bandipora: Markets in Dawar, the main town of Gurez in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district, remained shut on Wednesday as residents staged a...

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Healthcare

Pregnant woman dies while being shifted to Bandipora hospital from Gurez; family alleges negligence

Bandipora: A 30-year-old pregnant woman from Tulail in north Kashmir’s Gurez Valley died while being shifted to District Hospital Bandipora from Sub-District...

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Jammu & Kashmir

Waqf Board wants common themes for Friday sermons at mosques, shrines across Kashmir

Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir Waqf Board has decided to constitute a core committee of religious scholars to finalise common themes for...

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Jammu & Kashmir

Bear mauls man in Ramban; series of attacks reported across JK

Ramban: A 55-year-old man was injured after being attacked by a bear in the Hamar Gali area of Ramban district on Sunday,...

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Jammu & Kashmir

Woman dies after jumping from 3-storey house to escape blaze in Srinagar

Srinagar: A woman died after jumping from a window of a three-storey residential house while trying to escape a fire in the...

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Crime

‘Charles Sobhraj of Kashmir’: 80-year-old ex-doctor arrested for allegedly selling land left behind by Kashmiri Pandit migrants

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Police have arrested an 80-year-old former Ayurvedic doctor accused of cheating land buyers through fraudulent property deals involving...