JAMMU — Hours after former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad quit the Congress, eight senior party leaders including three former ministers resigned the party’s primary membership, with sources indicating they may form a new party soon. More leaders, perceived to be close to Azad, are contemplating to resign, the sources said. Former […]
SRINAGAR — Residents of Fresdub in Chrar-i-Sharif block of Central Kashmir district Budgam district are aghast over what they allege is illegal occupation of Waqf land by a group of people, who have illegally taken over the said property. A group of people from Fresdub told news agency Kashmir Dot Com that one of the […]
SRINAGAR — Renowned educationist and lecturer of Chemistry, Javaid Ahmad Rather, of Wagoora area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla has been selected for this year’s national teachers award. President of India, Droupadi Murmu according to Srinagar based news agency Kashmir Dot Com (KDC) will confer the award to Mr Rather on the occasion of Teachers’ Day […]
SRINAGAR — National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah on Friday said Ghulam Nabi Azad must have resigned from the Congress as he must not be getting respect and love from the party and added that the country needs a stronger opposition. Abdullah’s son and Vice President of Jammu and Kashmir National Conference Omar Abdullah in a […]
SRINAGAR — Former Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, who resigned from the Congress party on Friday, is all set to float a new political party in Jammu & Kashmir next month, sources said here. Sources told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer that Azad would launch the party in September. This would be the second major […]
SRINAGAR — In wake of senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad’s resignation from the party on Friday, a number of senior party leaders, including former legislators, of the party in Jammu and Kashmir also quit. These included G.M. Saroori, Haji Abdul Rashid, Muhammad Amin Bhat, Gulzar Ahmad Wani, and Choudhary Muhammad Akram. “The new president […]
Peerzada Zubair KUPWARA — Women’s Equality Day, celebrated every August 26, to commemorate the passage of women’s suffrage in the U.S. and reminds us of the hurdles overcome by the heroic women who faced violence and discrimination to propel the women’s movement forward. Indian Army conducted an event based on the theme “Gender equality today […]
SRINAGAR — Kashmir’s chief cleric and Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was disallowed on Friday to leave his residence in Srinagar to attend congregational prayers at the historic Jamia Masjid, a week after J&K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha suggested “he was a free man”. “I started for the Jamia Masjid around 12:40 p.m. All I […]
SRINAGAR — In order to ease the burden on National Investigation Agency (NIA) courts, Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Saturday ordered constitution of exclusive special courts for NIA cases. In an order, Registrar General, J&K High Court, Sanjeev Gupta stated that to ease out the pressure from the NIA Courts, the Chief Justice has […]
NEW DELHI — Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad in a letter to Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Friday resigned from all positions of the Congress party including the primary membership of the party. “The Indian National Congress has lost both the will and the ability under the tutelage of the conterie that runs the […]