URI — The residents of Ijara, Shamswari and Peernia villages of Boniyar area of North Kashmir’s Baramulla district Monday staged a protest demonstration against PHE Department and blocked a link road connecting Srinagar-Muzaffarabad highway at Peerniyan against the acute drinking water shortage. The protesters including men, and children assembled at the highway and resorted to […]
BANDIPORA — A BDC member has gone underground and is evading arrest after police booked him on charges of abduction in North Kashmir’s Bandipora district. Sources told news agency Kashmir News Trust that a BDC member for Naninara Sumbal Block of Sonawari Abdul Hameed Kaloo was allegedly harassing a married woman who also hails from […]
SRINAGAR — In an apparent reference to the violence in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti alleged on Monday that imposing Section 144 wherever human rights and dignity have trampled upon has emerged as the Centre’s preferred approach. She claimed that the government uses an iron fist against its own people but welcomes […]
DEHRADUN — Over 200 unidentified men and women, allegedly belonging to local right-wing groups, vandalised a church in Roorkee on Sunday, October 3, injuring several people who had assembled for morning prayers. According to the FIR registered by Prio Sadhana Lanse, the church pastor’s wife, over 200 men and women belonging to the local Vishwa […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Yasmeen Khan, one of the young and energetic social activist from Zakura, Hazratbal area of Srinagar city, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory is working on various social issues particularly for the welfare of women and well-being of youth in Kashmir valley. Besides she has worked on issues related […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Sunday said he would request the Centre to defer by a year the Union Territory’s participation in the all-India quota in this year’s NEET exam. A delegation of NEET Post-Graduate MD/MS aspirants called on the Lieutenant at Raj Bhavan here. The delegation led by Dr […]
SRINAGAR — About 75,000 first-year students of various undergraduate courses in Jammu and Kashmir, besides 2,000 school students belonging to various scheduled tribe communities, will be given tablets, Union Minister of State for Education Subhas Sarkar said Sunday. The Union Minister made this announcement while concluding his five-day visit to Kashmir on Sunday. He was […]
SRINAGAR — PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday accused the Centre of bias, saying preventing people from offering prayers at mosques and shrines in Kashmir shows the Government of India’s “disrespect” for the sentiments of the majority community. Mehbooba was reacting to the continuous closure of a few mosques and shrines in Srinagar city, including […]
NEW DELHI — The Qatar-Turkey-Pakistan (QTPi) nexus with the blessings of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) is becoming the new hub for radical Islamists. A new report by Disinfolab says the MB, laced with fake news and and two media weapons, Al Jazeera and TRT World, launched a campaign against India –- targeting New Delhi’s economic […]
SRINAGAR — The United Nations has again raised the issue of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leader Waheed Ur Rehman Para pointing out that he was arrested after “his engagement with members of the UN Security Council”. In the annual report presented to the UN Human Rights Council, it has been noted that “on 16 March […]