SRINAGAR — In the wake of two militant attacks last week, Jammu and Kashmir chief secretary Atal Dulloo Monday chaired a high-level meeting of civil and police administration to review the security situation in the Union territory, an official spokesperson said. The meeting was taken in view of the ensuing tourist season and ongoing elections […]
SRINAGAR — The Hurriyat Conference on Monday said the government should desist from using force against political prisoners and the youth. Paying tributes to Mirwaiz Mohammad Farooq and Abdul Gani Lone, who fell to the bullets of militants on May 21 in 1990 and 2002 respectively, the Hurriyat Conference said the absence of these leaders […]
SRINAGAR — Improvement has been noted in the condition of the tourist couple who got injured in a firing by militants in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam area last week, officials said here on Monday. “Tabrez Khan and his wife Farah are undergoing treatment at 92 Base Hospital of the Army. They are both stable and […]
JAMMU — All Jammu and Kashmir Panchayat Conference (AJKPC) on Sunday condemned the killing of a former sarpanch by militants in Shopian and demanded an NIA probe into the incident. Militants struck at two places in Kashmir on Saturday night, killing a former sarpanch in Shopian and injuring a tourist couple from Rajasthan in Anantnag, […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir election department has dismissed a government employee from services and suspended four others for violation of Model Code of Conduct, officials said on Sunday. The swift action against these employees of different departments of J&K has been initiated in response to the daily online reports being furnished by the […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor (LG) Manoj Sinha on Sunday strongly condemned the militant attacks in Shopian and Pahalgam and said security forces have been given a free hand to bring the perpetrators of these attacks to justice. Militants struck at two places in Kashmir on Saturday night, killing a former sarpanch in […]
SRINAGAR — The BJP on Sunday held a protest against the murder of party worker and former sarpanch Aijaz Ahmad Sheikh in Shopian and accused the Jammu and Kashmir civil administration of ignoring its requests for security to some key functionaries facing militant threats. BJP workers gathered outside the ‘mini secretariat’ in Shopian and raised […]
JAMMU — National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Sunday urged the Centre to order a probe into the twin militant attacks in Jammu and Kashmir a day earlier and also asked Pakistan to stop supporting militancy in the region. The former chief minister said if a probe is not ordered into the two gruesome incidents, […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — A spokesperson of Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) who was involved in many crimes including an attempt to jailbreak and raising anti-national slogans surrendered before police in Srinagar, the Jammu and Kashmir Police said on Sunday. “The accused person namely Ali Mohd Lone @ Advocate Zahid Ali, son of Habibullah Lone, resident of Nihama Pulwama, […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — A former Sarpanch was shot dead, and a tourist couple from Rajasthan was injured in separate militant attacks in South Kashmir last night. Reports said, Aijaz Ahmad Sheikh, a former Sarpanch affiliated with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was critically injured after being fired upon by suspected militants in the Heerpora […]