SRINAGAR — People’s Conference received a shot in the arm to its expansion programme as five politicians, including two former PDP MPs, from various parts of Jammu and Kashmir joined the party on Saturday. Former MLC and ex-PDP leader Murtaza Khan, former PDP MPs Nazir Ahmad Laway and Mir Mohammad Fayaz, DDC chairman Baramulla Safina […]
July 10 was just another dull newsroom day at a leading English daily in Srinagar, copy editors formatting government handouts for the next day’s edition as they have been doing since New Delhi dismantled Jammu and Kashmir’s residual autonomy on August 5, 2019. In the evening, the newspaper received a J&K administration handout announcing that it […]
SRINAGAR — A militant was slain and another arrested in an anti-militancy operation in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Saturday morning. Reports said, joint team of government forces had launched Cordon-and-Search-Operation (CASO) in Manchowa area of Budgam district in Central Kashmir following the inputs about presence of militants in the area. As the searches were […]
SRINAGAR — Five days ago, at 3 am, Bashir Ahmad, the owner of a houseboat on the river Jhelum in the Lal Mandi area of Srinagar, heard the sound of something screeching. The wind was loud and tempestuous and it was very dark, so at first Bashir thought the screeching sound was due to a […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Saturday flagged off a run for ”polythene-free Srinagar” from the city’s historic Lal Chowk. The initiative is aimed at making streets, lakes and communities cleaner to bring about better environmental sustainability in the union territory, he said. “Flagged-off ”Run for Polythene-Free Srinagar” from iconic Ghanta Ghar, […]
NEW DELHI — Four months after the Jammu and Kashmir administration notified a New Industrial Policy allowing investments from outside, projects worth Rs 23,000 crore have been “locked” in the Union Territory, and four big corporates are in various stages of being allotted land. Sources in the J&K administration said Rs 11,000 crore of the new […]
SRINAGAR — The Enforcement Directorate Friday served a notice on the mother of former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti in connection with a case related to money laundering, official said here. The summons served on Gulshan Nazir, who is in her late seventies, has asked her to appear before the ED’s Srinagar office […]
JAMMU — All government schools in Jammu and Kashmir will be renamed after the name of armed forces personnel and officers who lost their lives in the Union Territory. All government-run schools in JK will be renamed after deceased armed forces personnel and officers of the Indian Army, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), and […]
ISLAMABAD — Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Kashmir, Shehryar Khan Afridi, on Thursday accused Indian regime of replicating Israel’s ‘settler’ tactics in Kashmir, adding that Modi’s Hindutva government was aiming to bring in demographic changes in Kashmir to turn Muslim-majority region of Jammu and Kashmir into Hindu-majority state. Addressing a seminar held here jointly by […]
NEW DELHI — On the second anniversary of the abrogation of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram alleged on Thursday that every aspect of democracy was “desecrated” on that day and India’s democratic credentials were diminished in the eyes of the world. On August 5, 2019, the Centre announced nullification of […]