JRL calls for shutdown on Saturday against ‘desecration of graveyards, religious places, razing of houses’

JRL calls for shutdown on Saturday against ‘desecration of graveyards, religious places, razing of houses’

Srinagar:  Terming the action of state authorities to curb the political sentiment as “barbaric and vile actions of brutality,”Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) has asked people to observe complete shutdown on the coming Saturday against the desecration of graveyards, religious places, razing of houses and chopping of orchards by the government forces. The trio including, Syed Ali […]

Police busts fake travel agency, nabs fraudster

Police busts fake travel agency, nabs fraudster

Srinagar: The Tourism Enforcement Wing of Jammu and Kashmir  Police on Wednesday busted a fake Travel Agency by the name of “Al Shama Holidays”. In  a statement issued here police said that in its investigation it found that a fake Travel Agency by the name of “Al Shama Holidays” being run by one Umar Shah son […]

Grand Mufti lashes out at Delhi’s talk offer, says it is “ambiguous and doubtful”  

Grand Mufti lashes out at Delhi’s talk offer, says it is “ambiguous and doubtful”  

Srinagar: The Grand Mufti (designate) of Kashmir Mufti Nasir ul Islam Wednesday lambasted New Delhi for its ‘dual’ nature and termed the dialogue offer as ambiguous and doubtful. Grand mufti said that there was no consensus in Delhi over talks offer as both Rajnath Singh and Sushma Swaraj had issued contradictory statements regarding the dialogue […]

Big News: Special CBI court convicts JKP DSP, ex-BSF DIG among five in infamous sex scandal case of 2006

Srinagar: A special court of Central Bureau Investigation on Wednesday convicted five persons including former J&K DSP and DIG, Border Security Force and acquitted two in the 2006 Jammu-Kashmir sex scandal case. The guilty include former JK police Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Mohammed Ashraf Mir, former Deputy inspector general of police (DIG) BSF, KC Padhi, while […]

IFJ deplores killing of the Russian scribe in Ukraine 

IFJ deplores killing of the Russian scribe in Ukraine 

Brussels: The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) in a statement from its Brussels headquarters has strongly condemned the murder of the Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko in Kiev, Ukraine. Babchenko, 41, was shot and killed on May 29, 2018. “His wife found him bleeding at their apartment, but he died in the ambulance on his way […]