SRINAGAR — The problem was not with mass gathering but the offering of namaz, National Conference leader Omar Abdullah said on Monday after FIR was lodged against 25 people in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad after they offered namaz at an open space. According to a police official, the case has been registered under the Indian Penal […]
NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court on Monday reserved its order on a father’s plea to perform last rites, at the burial site, of his son, who was killed in the Hyderpora encounter in Srinagar in November last year. Senior advocate Anand Grover, representing Mohammad Latief Magrey, submitted before a bench of Justices Surya Kant […]
JAMMU — A surrendered militant was detained under Public Safety Act (PSA) for his alleged involvement in “anti-national and anti-social” activities in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir, and lodged in Kot Bhalwal Jail in Jammu, officials said on Monday. The order for the detention of Mohammad Amin Wani, a resident of Bankoot village of […]
SRINAGAR — Former MLA and prominent leader of Apni Party Shoiab Nabi Lone on Monday threw his weight behind former CM Ghulam Nabi Azad. In a letter, a copy of which is in possession of news agency Kashmir News Observer, Shoiab said that he alongwith his delegates and colleagues extends his full support to Ghulam […]
JAMMU — Four more Congress leaders, including former deputy speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Gulam Hyder Malik, and a dozen prominent workers of the Apni Party resigned from their respective parties on Monday in support of veteran politician Ghulam Nabi Azad. Azad (73), a former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, ended his five-decade […]
NEW DELHI — Ghulam Nabi Azad, who quit the Congress last week, today said the party’s top decision-making body, the Congress Working Committee, is “meaningless” today. He also slammed what he called “Rahul Gandhi’s policy of attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi left, right and centre.” “The present CWC is meaningless. Under Sonia Gandhi, there was […]
SRINAGAR — A day after Apni Party chief lashed out at former CM Ghulam Nabi Azad, the newly appointed Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) chief, Vikar Rasool Wani on Monday said that “A” and “B” teams of BJP have started pulling legs of each other. “Anyone who wants to leave Congress can go […]
SRINAGAR — The J&K Police has launched online mobile application “JK Ecop”, an easy-to-use interface to facilitate common people. As per a police spokesman, the app enables the citizens to use a host of services ranging from registering a complaint to downloading a copy of FIR. A citizen can make requests like obtaining a character […]
SRINAGAR — There has been no data breach of the University of Kashmir, reveals the investigation report and internal data sharing cannot be ruled out. The investigation team analyzed the database index file, which was placed on the dark web and removed immediately, and found there was no breach of data from live servers of […]
SRINAGAR — Weather was partly cloudy in J&K is the last 24 hours, and the MeT office said on Monday that partly cloudy weather with light rain at isolated places is likely to occur during the next 24 hours. “Partly cloudy sky with light rain at isolated places is likely to occur in J&K during […]