BUDGAM (KIMS) — Minister for Education, Social Welfare, Health & Medical Education, Sakina Itoo and Minister for RDD and Agriculture, Javid Ahmad Dar today visited Naidgam Budgam to condole the demise of Dr Shahnawaz, who had been killed in a militant attack at Gagangir in Ganderbal on Sunday evening. They strongly condemned the killing of […]
JAMMU — A day after a deadly militant attack at a tunnel construction site in J&K’s Ganderbal left seven people dead, members of the Shiv Sena Dogra Front and Rashtriya Bajrang Dal on Monday burned Pakistani flags in Jammu in protest against the killings amid slogans against the neighbouring country. The protesters demanded that the […]
NEW DELHI — Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk on Monday ended his fast along with others, after the home ministry assured them that the talks on Ladakh’s demands will be resumed in December. Join Secretary, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, Prashant Lokhande met the activists, who have been sitting on an indefinite fast at Delhi’s Ladakh […]
GANDERBAL — A National Investigation Agency (NIA) team arrived on Monday noon at a construction site in Ganderbal district’s Gagangir where militants gunned down a doctor and six labourers. The NIA team is being led by a Superintendent of Police rank officer from the agency’s regional branch in the Union Territory, said sources. A doctor […]
BUDGAM — The son of Dr Shahnawaz Dar, one of the seven people killed in the Gagangir militant attack, on Monday expressed sadness over his father’s death and said that his father had wanted him to become a doctor, but his death has shattered his dream. He added that after his father’s death, he had […]
SRINAGAR — Just two weeks ago, the house echoed with laughter as hundreds gathered for his daughter’s wedding. On Monday, cries of anger and anguish rang through Dr Shahnawaz’s Budgam residence and the streets around it, the celebration so quickly giving way to mourning. Slogans of ‘Naara-e-Takbeer, Allahu Akbar’ (Allah is the greatest) were heard […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — The Lieutenant Governor, Shri Manoj Sinha today directed Shri Chandraker Bharti, Principal Secretary (Home Department, J&K) to immediately provide financial assistance to the families of civilian victims of Gagangir militants attack. He has also asked the APCO Infratech company to release the compensation without any delay. The officials of APCO Infratech briefed […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today paid homage to police martyrs on Police Commemoration Day during a solemn ceremony at the Police Martyrs Memorial here at Zewan. Accompanied by members of his Council of Ministers, Javed Ahmad Rana and Javid Ahmad Dar, as well as Advisor to the Chief Minister, Nasir Aslam Wani, […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir Students Association Sunday expressed “deep concern” over the suspension of 35 Kashmiri students from Mewar University, Chittorgarh, Rajasthan. In a statement, the national convener of the association, Nasir Khuehami, said that these students have been protesting for the past three days, “day and night”, due to the university’s failure […]
JAMMU — A Border Security Forces personnel was killed after his service rifle went off accidentally in Nowshera area of Rajouri district on Monday. Officials told GNS that today during Naka duty, the rifle of a BSF personnel went off accidentally resulting instant death of the said personnel. He has been identified as Head constable […]