SRINAGAR — A delegation of Jammu and Kashmir Awami Action Committee (AAC) Saturday visited the families of Altaf Ahmed Bhat and Dr Mudassir Gul and expressed solidarity on behalf of its incarcerated chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq over the tragic killings in the Hyderpora staged encounter. The delegation conveyed that in this tragic hour the entire […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Police Saturday said that it has busted the grenade throwing module of Lashkar-e-Toiba outfit and arrested five militant associates linked to the network. A police spokesman in a statement said that during the investigation of cases pertaining to multiple grenade attacks in district Pulwama, police busted a network of active […]
SRINAGAR — The Concerned Citizens Group (CCG) led by former union finance minister, Yashwant Sinha has expressed its deep anguish at the civilian killings in the Hyderpora encounter and called for a judicial inquiry under the supervision of the Supreme Court in order to “uncover the truth” and restore people’s confidence in the rule of […]
KUPWARA — Peoples Democratic Party leader and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti Saturday said being the head of J&K, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha should take the responsibility of Hyderpora encounter in which 3 civilians were killed. She was talking to reporters in North Kashmir’s Kupwara district. In response to a question, Mehbooba […]
SRINAGAR — Former Chief Minister Jammu and Kashmir and PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Friday said the Centre’s decision to repeal three farm laws is a welcome step and expressed hope that the Union government “course corrects” and “reverses the illegal changes” made in Jammu and Kashmir since August 2019. Taking to micro blogging site […]
BANDIPORA — A lady lawyer was hospitalized after being assaulted by an opposition party client in the courtroom here in North Kashmir’s Bandipora district. Police swung into action and arrested the man responsible for the assault. The incident occurred in the courtroom of Judicial Magistrate Bandipora on Saturday. Eyewitnesses told news agency Kashmir News Trust […]
JAMMU — The Jammu and Kashmir administration called for constituting Covid inspection teams (CITs) at divisional and district levels for random inspection of people at public places and health institutions. It also stressed on vaccination, increased targeted testing, intensive contact tracing and strict containment measures, which will remain the government’s key strategy against a probable […]
SRINAGAR — In the backdrop of the back-to-back debates being telecast on television channels discussing the situation in Kashmir, a Srinagar-based Kashmiri Pandit body has requested the Government of India (GoI) to put a halt to all kinds of Kashmir centric TV debates. “May I request all news channel’s in India don’t make resident Kashmiri […]
SRINAGAR — Night temperatures throughout the Kashmir Valley dropped below the freezing point on Saturday while at minus 12.0 degrees Celsius, Drass town of Ladakh remained the coldest. An official of the Meteorological Department (MeT) said, “Due to clear night sky, minimum temperatures throughout the Valley dropped below the freezing point today. “Srinagar had minus […]
JAMMU — Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is likely to be on two days visit to Jammu and Kashmir starting from November 23. This will be the first visit of the Finance Minister after the revocation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir on August 5, 2019 that resulted into bifurcation of erstwhile state into […]