SRINAGAR — Kashmir’s chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Tuesday said authorities in the Union territory should review the approach of booking the youth under anti-terror laws. In a statement, the Mirwaiz cited a case in which two young men from Baramulla spent six years in jail under stringent anti-terror laws before being acquitted, after […]
NEW DELHI — The Delhi High Court has upheld the bail granted to a Kashmiri youth in a case under the anti-terror law concerning an alleged conspiracy to spread terror in Jammu and Kashmir. A bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Arun Bhardwaj dismissed the National Investigation Agency (NIA)’s appeal against the trial court’s May […]
SRINAGAR — PDP leader and MLA Pulwama Waheed Para on Sunday accused the Centre of adopting double standards amid crackdown in Kashmir after a policeman’s killing, saying that compassion showed to protesting students at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar was being denied to the Kashmiri youths. The young leader from Pulwama was referring to mass clampdown on […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Sunday urged the youth of the Union Territory to take advantage of the dynamic and competitive environment and knowledge platforms to set new goals in life. Addressing a student felicitation programme at the Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SKUAST) here, Sinha said as […]