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 […]
JAMMU — In a meeting chaired by the Chief Secretary to deliberate upon misinformation created regarding property tax in Jammu and Kashmir, it was clarified that all the poor, marginalized having small houses having built-up area up to 1000 square feet have been exempted by the government from paying any property tax to be levied […]
SRINAGAR — A man from Pulwama was killed after being hit by moving train on Budgam-Srinagar section on Thursday. The man identified as Sanaullah Bhat, son of Abdul Ahad Bhat, a resident of Lajoora Pulwama was seriously injured after being hit by a train. He was immediately evacuated from the spot to the hospital, where […]
SOPORE — A man was injured in a mysterious blast in Warpora area of Sopore in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Thursday. Quoting an official, news agency KNO reported that the man identified as Mohammad Jamal Dar, son of Ghulam Mohammad Dar of Warpora Sopore was digging earth at his orchard in Warpora when the […]
KULGAM — A residential house and some shops were damaged on Thursday after a landslide occurred in Noorabad area of Damhal Hanjipora in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district. An official told news agency KNO that landslide took place at Shalmachi Yarikhah in Noorabad in which almost 3-5 shops belonging to Fayaz Ahmad Hajam and Abdul Majeed […]