SRINAGAR — A 17-year-old youth has committed suicide by jumping into river Jhelum from Cement Kadal in Noorbagh area of Srinagar. The family members of the youth told that their beloved identified as Saqib Ahmad Ahangar, son of Abdul Kalaam Ahangar of Kupwara has jumped into river Jhelum on Friday evening. Saqib was living as […]
SRINAGAR — Residents of Iqbal Colony Indra Nagar Sonwar are up in arms against the Public Health Department (PHE) for pushing them to brink by depriving them of drinking water in the months of summer. The locals who staged a protest in the Colony told news agency Kashmir News Trust that they are facing severe […]
BUDGAM — A woman was killed after a vehicle she was driving rolled down into a deep gorge on Tangnar Doodpathri road in central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Friday afternoon. Sources told that a car bearing registration number JK03J-6384 driven by a lady met with an accident on Doodpathri road, resulting in her onspot death. […]
NEW DELHI — Former Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Friday slammed the Modi-led government for insisting on elections in Jammu and Kashmir before granting statehood. Chidambaram said in a tweet, “Congress and other J&K parties and leaders want Statehood first and Elections afterward, Government’s response is Elections first and Statehood later. “The horse pulls the […]
SRINAGAR — A 28-year-old youth was shot dead by unknown gunmen in Habba Kadal chowk in Srinagar on Wednesday evening. Sources told the news agency Kashmir Dot Com that the youth identified as Umer Ahmad was shot by unknown gunmen. They said that the youth was immediately rushed to SMHS hospital for treatment, where he […]
SRINAGAR — Out of 51 militants killed in the first half of this year, 15 were killed after the imposition of Covid-19 related lockdown in Kashmir Valley. Before the enforcement of the lockdown in the last week of April this year, Joint Forces had managed to neutralize 36 militants in the first four months of […]
SRINAGAR — The political leadership in Kashmir should demand the restoration of statehood in Jammu and Kashmir along with its special powers — Article 370 and Article 35(A) in the all party meeting which is going to be held on 24th of June. The all party meeting was called by the Prime Minister of India […]
SRINAGAR — The Government of India is likely to convene an all-party meet on Kashmir next week to discuss Jammu and Kashmir. Reliable sources told that the meeting will discuss the way forward for Jammu and Kashmir as it is being understood by Delhi that time has come to resume the political process and to […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir police on Friday said that they have arrested an accused person for allegedly sexually harassing a minor girl in Nowgam area of Srinagar. A police official told that one person from Shalina area approached Nowgam police station with a written complaint that his 9-year-old daughter was sexually harassed by […]
BARAMULLA — Two women from the same village of Baramulla district tried to end their lives by consuming poison. Police have taken up investigation to ascertain the reason behind the twin incidents. The twin incidents occurred in the village Bachi Trikanjan of Boniyar Baramulla. Police sources told news agency Kashmir News Trust that two women […]