YAWAR RASHID PULWAMA — Burglars on the intervening Sunday-Monday night, stole 250 crates of apple from an orchard in Abhama village in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Reports said that the apple crates were stolen from an orchard of Imtiyaz Ahmad Mir, son of Ghulam Rasool Mir during the night hours when whole village was busy […]
JAMMU — A BJP-led delegation of three displaced Kashmiri Pandit organisations called on Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday and demanded the construction of two-bedroom quarters for the migrant employees from the community recruited under the Prime Minister’s special recruitment programme in the Kashmir valley, besides security and an insurance coverage for them. They […]
SRINAGAR — After Pakistan’s win against India in ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, Kashmiri students studying in various colleges of Punjab were physically assaulted by ‘people from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar’. At Bhai Guru Das Institute of Engineering and Technology in Sangrur, Punjab, several students were attacked and assaulted in their hostel rooms after India […]
JAMMU — Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said that the government of India is working to ensure that “no civilian gets killed in the violence in Kashmir.” Addressing a rally in Jammu, Shah, whose visit comes amid a spate of civilian killings in the Valley, said: Government is working to ensure that no […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha Sunday warned those who incite people to trigger violence, saying the government does not believe in “buying peace” but is firm on ensuring peace on the ground. Sinha made these remarks at a public rally with Union home minister Amit Shah who is on his first […]
JAMMU — Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said that the Jammu and Kashmir government was ensuring equitable development of both regions of the Union territory. He noted a new era of development has started in the UT. Shah arrived in Jammu and Kashmir on a three-day visit on Saturday for the first time after […]
JAMMU — An arrested Pakistani militant was killed, while three security personnel were injured on Sunday when militants opened fire on a joint search party of the Army and police inside a forest in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. Heavy firing and explosions were reported from Bhatta Durrian forest of Mendhar which […]
SRINAGAR — PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday charged that “repression” was the Government of India’s only method to deal with the situation in Jammu and Kashmir. Reacting to the remarks by Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat warning of further curbs in Kashmir to tackle the recent violence, Mehbooba also said his statement […]
NEW DELHI — General Bipin Rawat, the Chief of Defence Staff said that restrictions imposed following the scrapping of Article 370 may return to the Kashmir Valley at the cost of freedom of movement because of militancy related activities, The Hindu reported. Rawat accused Pakistan of carrying out a proxy war to “create fear-mongering” because […]
KULGAM — The body of a 15-year-old youth was found near a Water channel in Badroo area of South Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Sunday, officials said. An official told that some passersby spotted the body lying at the water channel and informed the police about it. “Later, a team of police reached the spot and […]