PULWAMA — A Bank Security Guard was shot dead by unknown gunmen at Achan area of Litter hamlet in South Kashmir’s Puwama district. An official said that militants fired upon a bank security guard in which he received injuries. He was immediately shifted to district hospital Pulwama for treatment where he was declared dead. Medical […]
Retired Ex- Zonal Educational Officer Master Ghulam Ahmad Ietoo, a resident of Ara-Koshipora Anantnag passed away after brief illness at his residence. He was suffering from Asthamtic disease. Meanwhile KIMS team, Youth President Ara-Koshipora Ashaq Hussain, Khan Hardware (Manzoor Ahmad Khan), Master Khurshid Bhat, Hissam Institute (Tasaduq Hussain), Bilal Ah Sheikh, Muzfar Ahmad Khanday, Showkat […]
SRINAGAR — The PDP on Saturday took out a protest march to demand roll-back of the Jammu and Kashmir administration’s decision to impose property tax in the Union Territory. The Union Territory administration on Tuesday ordered the imposition of property tax in municipal areas from April 1. The tax rates will be five per cent […]
SRINAGAR — The government on Saturday said that imposing property tax is aimed at ensuring better facilities for the people. Addressing a news conference today at TRC meeting hall here, Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir V K Bidhuri, who was accompanied by SMC Commissioner, Athar Aamir Khan clarified that 1/3rd of the population are already exempted from […]
SRINAGAR — The Meteorological Department on Saturday forecast dry weather in Jammu and Kashmir for next 24 hours. The weather remained dry in the Union Territory yesterday. An official of the Meteorological Department said, dry weather is likely to continue in J&K during the next 24 hours. He said, Srinagar recorded 1.6 degrees Celsius while […]
KOLKATA — Former Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) chief Amarjit Singh Dulat on Friday said while the Modi government’s “muscular policy” is working and “militancy was down”, the “idea of India” in Kashmir was being lost and that there is need for a “healing touch.” Speaking at a discussion about his book ‘A Life in […]
SRINAGAR — Anjuman Auqaf Jama Masjid Srinagar while expressing serious concern over more than three and a half years detention of its president Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir Dr Moulvi Muhammad Umar Farooq, said that he was barred from performing 183rd consecutive Friday prayer, which is extremely condemnable. “Today, in his Friday sermon at the historic Central Jama Masjid […]
ANANTNAG — A civilian was injured in a firing incident in Hassanpora area of Bijbehara town in Anantnag district of South Kashmir on Friday. Reports said, a civilian identified as Asif Ganai, son of Martyr Head Constable Ali Mohd Ganai was fired upon and injured by militants outside mosque at his native village, Hassanpora Tavela […]
JAMMU — Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik appeared via video-conferencing before a special court here on Friday and an eyewitness identified him in the 1989 kidnapping of Rubaiya Sayeed, the daughter of then Union home minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed. The eyewitness corroborated that he had gone to Sopore in Baramulla district of […]
LUCKNOW — Twenty-three children from a government-run school in Srinagar, who are on an eight-day Bharat Darshan tour, visited the Bada Imambara and later went to the Lulu Mall in Lucknow. The tour organised by Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) Frontier Unit reached the Uttar Pradesh state capital from Chandigarh. The children were amazed to see […]