BANIHAL — Five alleged overground workers have been detained under the Public Safety Act for engagement in anti-national activities in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district on Thursday, officials said. Police prepared dossiers of the five persons and their activities, mostly in the district’s Banihal tehsil, they said. The district magistrate slapped them with the Public […]
WASHINGTON — The United States is aware of reports of Pulitzer-winning Kashmiri journalist Sanna Irshad Mattoo allegedly being prevented from travelling to the country, a State Department official has said. Mattoo had on Tuesday said she was stopped at the IGI Airport in Delhi from flying to the US to received the prestigious award. “We […]
SRINAGAR — Authorities in Anantnag district have asked people to refrain from travelling on Sinthan and Margan pass roads due to bad weather conditions. “In view of wide spread rains, snowfall and bad weather conditions, people of Tehsil Larnoo and outside tourists are advised to refrain from venturing in landslide and shooting stone prone areas,” […]
SRINAGAR — Authorities on Thursday informed that the historic Mughal road and Srinagar-Sonamarg-Gumari (SSG) road were closed in view of fresh snowfall. However, the vehicular movement was plying on Srinagar-Jammu National Highway. Officials said that both roads were closed for vehicular movement due to snow accumulation due to fresh snowfall in higher reaches of Jammu […]
SRINAGAR — Rain in plains and snowfall in higher reaches of Jammu and Kashmir occurred during the last 24 hours as the Meteorological (MeT) office said on Thursday that the same weather conditions were likely to continue. “Light to moderate rain in the plains and snowfall in the higher reaches of J&K is likely to […]
SRINAGAR — CPI (M) State Secretary Ghulam Nabi Malik on Wednesday condemned the allegedly custodial killing of Imran Bashir Ganai of Harman Shopian and demanded credible probe into this unfortunate incident. Malik in a statement said that it is widely perceived that the said person had not been involved in any unlawful activity. “Recently in […]
SRINAGAR — Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), Agriculture Production Department, Atal Dulloo today inaugurated 550 metric ton (MT) capacity Cold Storage facility at Agri Complex Lal Mandi here. The 550 MT capacity cold storage facility would house perishable items and veggies for preservation at nominal charges to fetch marginal farmers’ attractive prices for their produce. On […]
SRINAGAR — Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha today chaired the first meeting of J&K Higher Education Council here at Raj Bhawan Auditorium. The Lt Governor stressed on the need to develop a pragmatic roadmap to enhance the potential of human resources and progressively transform J&K’s universities into economic growth centres. “Our Higher Education ecosystem needs to […]
PATNA — A Class 7 question paper in a school in Bihar allegedly contained a question that distinguished Kashmir from India, sparking a new controversy. The Bihar government’s Education Department conducted midterm examinations for the students of classes 1-8 from October 12 till October 18. In their English exam, the students of Class 7 were […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik, who is lodged in Delhi’s Tihar Jail in a terror financing case, on Wednesday appeared in a special court here through Video conferencing in connection with the 1990 killing of four Air Force personnel personnel. The special Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act court […]