SRINAGAR — PDP president and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday demanded the release of Indian National Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi. Priyanka was arrested on her way to Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri district to visit the families of the farmers killed on Sunday, and had been arrested in Hargaon Taking to the micro-blogging […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) Tuesday staged a protest against the “arrest” of senior Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi in Uttar Pradesh and demanded the resignation of the Yogi Adityanath from the Chief Ministership post in the state. Priyanka was detained in Sitapur on Monday on her way to Lakhimpur Kheri, […]
PULWAMA — Unknown burglars barged into a storage shed and stole nearly 300 boxes of Apples in the Wahpora area of Murran in South Kashmir’s Puwama district. Locals told The Kashmiriyat that unknown burglars broke into the shed of a local orchardist, Irshad Ahmed Shah, son of Sayed Shah and stole nearly 300 apple boxes packed in […]
SRINAGAR — India has said a constructive contribution cannot be expected from Pakistan as it has an established practice of hosting terrorists and is the “epicentre” of global terrorism, and the biggest destabilising force in the world. Strongly hitting out at Pakistan for again raking up the Kashmir issue at the UN Counsellor in India’s […]
URI — The residents of Ijara, Shamswari and Peernia villages of Boniyar area of North Kashmir’s Baramulla district Monday staged a protest demonstration against PHE Department and blocked a link road connecting Srinagar-Muzaffarabad highway at Peerniyan against the acute drinking water shortage. The protesters including men, and children assembled at the highway and resorted to […]
BANDIPORA — A BDC member has gone underground and is evading arrest after police booked him on charges of abduction in North Kashmir’s Bandipora district. Sources told news agency Kashmir News Trust that a BDC member for Naninara Sumbal Block of Sonawari Abdul Hameed Kaloo was allegedly harassing a married woman who also hails from […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Sunday said he would request the Centre to defer by a year the Union Territory’s participation in the all-India quota in this year’s NEET exam. A delegation of NEET Post-Graduate MD/MS aspirants called on the Lieutenant at Raj Bhavan here. The delegation led by Dr […]
SRINAGAR — About 75,000 first-year students of various undergraduate courses in Jammu and Kashmir, besides 2,000 school students belonging to various scheduled tribe communities, will be given tablets, Union Minister of State for Education Subhas Sarkar said Sunday. The Union Minister made this announcement while concluding his five-day visit to Kashmir on Sunday. He was […]
SRINAGAR — PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday accused the Centre of bias, saying preventing people from offering prayers at mosques and shrines in Kashmir shows the Government of India’s “disrespect” for the sentiments of the majority community. Mehbooba was reacting to the continuous closure of a few mosques and shrines in Srinagar city, including […]
SRINAGAR — The United Nations has again raised the issue of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leader Waheed Ur Rehman Para pointing out that he was arrested after “his engagement with members of the UN Security Council”. In the annual report presented to the UN Human Rights Council, it has been noted that “on 16 March […]