SRINAGAR — Centre has sent its top counter-militancy experts to the Valley to aid the local police neutralise the militants, Hindustan Times reported. This comes amid a spike in killing of civilians in the valley. According to the report the development comes after Union home minister Amit Shah gave firm and unequivocal directions to counter […]
SRINAGAR — Family members and relatives of slain school principal Friday staged a silent sit-in outside civil secretariat Srinagar and demanded justice. The members of Sikh community, majority of whom were family members and relatives of slain school principal Supinder Kour, who was shot dead along with her colleague Deepak Chand, at Government Higher Secondary […]
SRINAGAR — In the wake of series of civilian killings in the past one week in Kashmir, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) demanded Lieutenant Governor (LG) Manoj Sinha’s resignation on Friday. Addressing a press conference at the party headquarter, PDP Suhail Bukhari said that the LG has lost his moral authority to continue his job in […]
SRINAGAR — Former Chief Minister and National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah and Peoples Conference Chief Sajad Gani Lone have called for “sanity to prevail” after a 28-year-old youth, father of two-minor daughters, was killed in CRPF firing in Anantnag district of south Kashmir last evening. PDP chief and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti called […]
NEW DELHI — Following the killings of two teachers by terrorists at a government school in Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader Indresh Kumar said that Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti is amongst the many who are responsible for the killings adding that she has a “separatist violent” attitude. […]
SRINAGAR — The killing of prominent Kashmiri Pandit businessman and owner of Bindroo Chemist, Makhan Lal Bindroo, by militants in a highly secured area of Srinagar has sowed fear among the Pandits who chose to live in the Valley without migrating elsewhere. Makhan Lal Bindroo, 68, was shot dead by militants at his shop at […]
NEW DELHI — Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday condemned the incidents of violence in Kashmir and alleged that the central government has completely failed to provide security to the people of Jammu and Kashmir. “Incidents of violence are increasing in Kashmir. Terrorism has neither stopped due to demonetisation nor after the abrogation of Article […]
SRINAGAR — Opposition leaders on Thursday condemned the targeted killing of civilians in the Kashmir valley and alleged that the central government has completely failed to provide security to the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said that terrorism has “neither stopped due to demonetisation” nor after the “abrogation of Article 370” […]
SRINAGAR — Prominent Kashmiri Shia leader, Ruhullah Mehdi on Thursday hinted that the ruling government was ‘turning things uglier in Kashmir to benefit them in UP.” Uttar Pradesh is slated to go for elections in 2022 and analysts and politicians are saying that the party is at the backfoot there and that it might use […]
SRINAGAR — Among the 28 civilians killed so for in Jammu and Kashmir this year till date 08 were from minority communities. Among these 8 slain, one was affiliated with BJP while one was the minor nephew of a Bhartiya Janata Party leader. The data available with news agency Kashmir News Trust reveals that the […]