SRINAGAR — Personal Security Officer with a BJP activist and his “associate”, who had fled couple of days ago with two weapons in Kupwara district of north Kashmir, were arrested on Wednesday. Inspector General of Police Vijay Kumar responded in affirmative to GNS when asked about the development. During intervening night of December 12 and […]
SRINAGAR — Mehbooba Mufti, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir state and (PDP) People’s Democratic Party President has reacted sharply to the arrest of a woman and her daughter for raising slogans in the aftermath of the Rangreth shootout. The former Chief Minister said that the arresting of women in Kashmir marks a new […]
SRINAGAR — Several former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders are seeking re-induction in the party as the party president Mehbooba Mufti’s is gaining popularity due to her criticism of New Delhi’s unpopular policies. Sources in political circles reveal that several political leaders who left the PDP after the abrogation of Article 370 and joined other […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Police have arrested the mother-daughter on charges of raising Anti nation slogans after an encounter in Kashmir capital Srinagar. Official sources said that the mother, daughter identified as Afrooza wife of Mushtaq Ahmad Sofi and her daughter Aisha daughter of Mushtaq Ahmad Sofi both resident of Rose enclave Wanbal Rawalpora […]
SRINAGAR — The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) Wednesday said that the number of civilian killings have remained in the range of 37-40 every year during the last five years while a large number of tourists have visited J&K in the past few months. While replying to a query whether it was a fact that […]
SRINAGAR — 89 Kashmiri Pandits have been killed in Kashmir by militants during the past over three decades, an information accessed by an RTI activist has revealed, Indian Express reported. It also revealed that as many as 1,724 people in Jammu and Kashmir were killed by the militants during this period. In response to a […]
SRINAGAR — Counter Intelligence Kashmir (CIK) Wednesday raided fourteen locations in South and central Kashmir districts and conducted searches regarding a case of Jammat offshoot School already registered in Srinagar. Reliable sources told that In Srinagar search was conducted in the residential house of a retired teacher namely Assadullah Bhat son of Abdul Samad resident […]
NEW DELHI — Prominent Muslim body Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind’s chief Maulana Arshad Madani met Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to India Saud Bin Mohammed Al-Sati and conveyed concerns over the “allegations” levelled by that country’s Ministry of Islamic Affairs against the Tablighi Jamaat, the Jamiat said on Tuesday. In a statement, the Jamiat said that Madani during his […]
MATHURA (UP) — A local court in Mathura has transferred the ongoing case of the eight PFI activists, including Malayali journalist Siddiqui Kappan, to a special NIA court in Lucknow. While Kappan and three others, Atiq-ur-Rahman, Masood Ahmad and Alam, were booked under charges of sedition and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) after they attempted […]
SRINAGAR — Cold conditions intensified in J&K and Ladakh as Srinagar had coldest night of the season with mercury plunging to minus 3.9°C. The weatherman has forecast dry weather till December 23 with “further fall” in mercury in coming days and predicted “white Christmas” in J&K and Ladakh. A meteorological department official here told GNS […]