NEW DELHI — Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday that preparations are underway for holding assembly elections in the future in Jammu and Kashmir, where development is now visible on the ground. “Giving fair opportunities to the potential of all, this is the real spirit of democracy. Be it Jammu or Kashmir, where the […]
KABUL — An Afghan lawmaker and the Taliban say the militants have seized Jalalabad, cutting off Kabul to the east. The militants posted photos online early Sunday showing them in the governor’s office in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province. Abrarullah Murad, a lawmaker from the province told The Associated Press that the insurgents seized […]
SRINAGAR — Muzaffar Wani, the father of slain Hizbul Mujahideen militant Burhan Wani, hoisted the national flag at a school in Jammu and Kashmir”s Pulwama district as part of Independence Day celebrations Sunday, officials said. Muzaffar Wani, who is a teacher by profession, unfurled the national flag on the premises of the Government Girls Higher […]
HOSHIARPUR — Punjab, December 1, 1982. That winter day was special. The dense fog and cold was usual but it was fading away, with the warmth and love that came with the reunion of a family who had been separated in the India-Pakistan Partition 35 years before. As she made her way from Lahore to […]
NEW DELHI — President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday said Parliament is the “temple of the country’s democracy” which provides the highest forum to discuss, debate and decide issues for the well-being of people, remarks that came against the backdrop of the recent ruckus and continuous disruptions that led to the abrupt adjournment of the […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Personal Law Board condoled the demise of Mian Bashir Ahmed who passed away at the age of 98 on Saturday. Ahmad Ayaz, Secretary J&K Muslim Personal Law Board in a condolence message expressed profound grief and deep sorrow over the passing away of Mian Bashir Saheb Larvi, describing it […]
SRINAGAR — Veteran Gujjar leader and Padma Bhushan awardee Mian Bashir Ahmed, a resident of Ganderbal district of Jammu and Kashmir, passed away on Saturday night after a prolonged illness. He was 98. Ahmed, a resident of village Wangat in Kangan area of the central Kashmir district, breathed his last at about 10 pm, family […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan on Saturday termed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement that India will observe August 14 as Partition Horrors Remembrance Day as a “political stunt” that only seeks to divide. In a statement about the events of 1947, Pakistan’s Foreign Office (FO) said that no modern state is so much in contradiction with itself […]
SRINAGAR — The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet of the union Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions has approved extension in the inter-cadre deputation of Divisional Commissioner Jammu, Raghav Langer and Mission Director, Rural Livelihood Mission, Syed Sehrish Asgar from Uttarakhand and Punjab cadres respectively to the J&K segment of the Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram-and-Union Territory […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir administration has decided to celebrate ‘Grand Independence Day’ in Jammu and Kashmir by hoisting tricolour on all government offices including 23000 government schools in the Union Territory. Similarly, teachers have also been told to attend August 15 celebrations in their respective schools. The hoisting of the national flag has been […]