SRINAGAR — With the Delimitation Commission set to visit Jammu and Kashmir next week, key mainstream political parties in the Valley including the National Conference and the People’s Conference are likely to participate in the discussions with the Commission, sources told The Indian Express. The Commission is scheduled to visit J&K between July 6 and […]
NEW DELHI — Union minister Jitendra Singh on Thursday said more than 800 central laws have become applicable to Jammu and Kashmir after it got the Union Territory status. Speaking after the inauguration of a semi-virtual regional conference on replication of good governance practices in Srinagar, attended by 750 officers from 10 states, he said […]
SRINAGAR — The family of Zakir Bashir, the 17-year-old killed in the Kulgam gunfight, has claimed that he was an innocent civilian rather than a militant, as claimed by the police. On Wednesday, at 1.06 pm, the government forces said a gunfight had erupted in Chimmer village of Kulgam district of south Kashmir and after […]
ANANTNAG — A policeman was on Thursday injured after militants attacked a police party in Lazibal area of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district, officials said. Officials said that militants fired a few pistol shots towards the police party at Lazibal, leaving a policeman injured. “The injured policeman was shifted to hospital where his condition is stable,” […]
SRINAGAR — Army men in Kashmir have now got vital support in conducting security-related operations with woman soldiers from the Assam Rifles assisting the troops in maintaining peace in the Valley. The Assam Riflewomen have been deployed in some areas of Kashmir where they help the male soldiers in frisking women and children at motor-vehicle […]
Journalists boycott event SRINAGAR — Journalists belonging to regional and national media today were accused of being working for militant outfits and were abused by a Sikh body at Gurdwara in Baghat where they had gone to cover their press conference. Following accusations and abuses the media personnel boycotted the press conference. The journalists who […]
SRINAGAR — On Doctors Day being celebrated on 1st July every year nationally, commemorating birth & death anniversary of Dr. BC Roy, Bharat Ratna and ex Chief Minister West Bengal, the Indian Medical Association national president during an impressive function announced the names the IMA COVID warriors across the country, during COVID pandemic at IMA […]
SRINAGAR — Authorities have seized a petrol pump at Gowherpora in central-Kashmir’s Budgam district after people lodged a protest into the alleged adulteration of fuel with kerosene and water by the filling station. Reports reaching said that the filling station was closed after locals in the area blocked the main-road leading to Pulwama at Gowherpora, […]
SRINAGAR — Peoples Conference Chairman Sajad Gani Lone Thursday confirmed that Muzafar Hussain Beigh is not associated with the party. “Imran Ansari has already made a statement about him. I would neither add or subtract anything for that statement. It is a closed chapter now,” Lone said while addressing a press conference here in Srinagar. […]
SRINAGAR — Peoples Conference (PC) Chairman, Sajad Gani Lone on Thursday said all the leaders who participated in the recently held all party meeting in New Delhi on June 24, made their people proud. Addressing a news conference, Lone, who was accompanied by Imran Raza Ansari and Basharat Bukhari said, the participants from Jammu and […]