SRINAGAR — Emotional scenes were witnessed at the house of the two civilians in Srinagar after their bodies were handed over to the families for the proper burial. The bodies of Muhammad Altaf Bhat and Mudasir Gul were returned to the families around 1 am amid forces presence. A resident of Barzulla, Muhammad Altaf Bhat, […]
LUCKNOW — A barefoot Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra undertook a five-kilometre ‘maun parikrama’ (going around silently) of the famous Kamadgiri Temple in the border town of Chitrakoot, and party leaders accompanied her chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’. Had it not been for the Congress flags, a casual onlooker could very well have taken it […]
SRINAGAR — The bodies of the civilians killed in Hyderpora encounter will likely be handed over to their families tonight as legal formalities for their exhumation has completed Sources confirmed that police and administrative officials concerned in Handwara are exhuming the bodies from the graves in Waderbala where police had buried them. Sources said “The […]
SRINAGAR — All Parties Sikh Coordination Committee (APSCC) has appealed to Hurriyat Conference to defer the strike call given against the civilian killings of Hyderpora encounter on November 19 Friday as it coincides with birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Ji. In a statement, APSCC Chairman Jagmohan Singh Raina said that the Committee is equally concerned […]
SRINAGAR — Senior Congress leader, Ghulam Nabi Azad on Thursday called for a judicial probe into the civilian killings during an encounter Hyderpora area of Srinagar on Monday evening. Talking to reporters at Kathua, Azad said that a judicial probe should be carried out to investigate the entire incident. “It is the case of police […]
SRINAGAR — Tassaduq Hussain Mufti, the brother of former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, on Thursday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate here for questioning in a money laundering case, officials said. Tassaduq, who was the tourism minister in his sister’s cabinet, had his statement recorded under provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering […]
SRINAGAR — On a day the J&K Lt. Governor ordered a magisterial probe into the Hyderpora operation in which four persons were killed, Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbag Singh said the “police is open to correction if anything has gone wrong”. Earlier in the day, Lt. Governor Manoj Sinha ordered a time-bound magisterial probe […]
KUPWARA — Kupwara police on Thursday handed over three youth from south Kashmir’s Pulwama district after apprehending them while ‘on way to cross Line of Control’. Addressing a presser SSP Kupwara Yougal Manhas, said “following a specific information, police apprehended the trio, all in their teenage from a hideout in Kupwara.” The police officer said […]
SRINAGAR — National Conference vice-president and the former J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah Thursday said bodies of civilians killed in Hyderpora encounter should be exhumed in Handwara and handed over to their families for last rites. He, however, said he was hopeful that the inquiry ordered by the Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha would establish the […]
SRINAGAR — Peoples Conference on Thursday staged massive protests in Srinagar over the killing of civilians in Hyderpora and demanded that their bodies should be immediately handed over to their families for burial. Led by senior party leaders, PC workers staged protest here to protest against the civilian killings in “gunfight” in Hyderpora area of […]