Politics

Former MP Fayaz Mir rejoins PDP

SRINAGAR — Former member parliament (MP) Fayaz Ahmad Mir on Sunday rejoined Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Sources told news agency Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that Mir was in touch with several parties over the past few months. According to sources, he had reportedly expressed his desire to join the National Conference and held a meeting […]

Kashmir

ASI dies of cardiac arrest in Srinagar

SRINAGAR — An Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) of Jammu and Kashmir Police died due to cardiac arrest in Srinagar on Friday. Quoting an official, news agency KDC reported that an Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) namely Mushtaq Ahmad, a resident of Karnah Kupwara fell unconscious while performing his duty at Abi-Guzar area Srinagar this afternoon. He said, the […]

Kashmir

Police books Facebook Page Admin in Srinagar

SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir Police have registered a formal First Information Report (FIR) against a Facebook page admin, Mudasir Bashir Bhat, alias Mudasir Aziz. An FIR copy accessed by Srinagar-based news-gathering agency Kashmir Dot Com states that one Mudasir Bashir Bhat, son of Bashir Ahmad Bhat, a resident of Khayam, Srinagar, has been […]

Kashmir

Shabir Shah’s daughter, Geelani’s granddaughter ‘disassociate’ themselves from separatist ideology

SRINAGAR — Jailed separatist leader Shabir Ahmad Shah’s daughter Sama Shabir and Hurriyat patriarch Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s granddaughter Ruwa Shah have put out nearly identical notices in local newspapers in Kashmir, disassociating themselves from “separatist ideology” and pledging their loyalty to “the sovereignty of Union of India”, PTI reported. Ruwa Shah, whose father and […]