Srinagar: Jammu & Kashmir may have a new governor later this month, when incumbent N.N. Vohra exits office after a 10-year term, BJP general secretary Ram Madhav confided in an interview with ThePrint. “I assume there will be a new governor soon,” Madhav said. Names of Maharashtra governor C. Vidyasagar Rao, a committed activist of […]
Srinagar: The Karvan-e-Aman bus service, operating between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK), resumed on Monday after remaining suspended last week for security reasons, official sources said here. The cross-Line of Control (LoC) could not operate last Monday as separatists had called for a general strike against alleged ‘attempts being made to weaken the […]
Srinagar: Yatra to the holy cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas was suspended from traditional Pahalgam track on Monday due to slippery conditions following rain, while it was progressing on shortest Baltal route despite rain, official sources said. They said for the safety of the pilgrims, the yatra on traditional Pahalgam track was suspended this […]
New Delhi: Confident of doing well and only about eight months to go for the general elections, the ruling BJP on Monday would yet again press for simultaneous polls to Lok Sabha and state legislatures. A party delegation comprising key leaders, including Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, will meet Chairman of Law Commission Justice B […]
Pulwama : Police Monday said that Hizbul Mujahedeen had abducted and subsequently killed a medical shop owner in Banpora Murran village of Pulwama district in south Kashmir last night. Reports said that gunshots were heard in Murran Village around 10pm on Sunday and a bullet-riddled body was found early today morning. The body has been […]
Handwara: Langate and its adjacent areas falling in North Kashmir’s Kupwara district observed a complete shutdown after a local family claimed that one of the five militants killed in Dooniwari Rafiabad forest gunfight was their son. Army on Thursday claimed that five militants were killed on during a gunfight in Rafiabad forests. An army official claimed […]
Srinagar: Peoples Democratic party President and former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti has hailed two state Bhartiya Janta party legislators for supporting the protection of article 35-A. She said she feels relieved to see people of Jammu and Kashmir coming on the same page to defend article 35-A. In a series of tweets, Mehbooba said “Heartening […]
Jammu: Weeks after the disciplinary committee suspended Dr Gagan Bhagat, BJP MLA from RS Pura Assembly Constituency, for three months over his family dispute, he once again triggered a row on Saturday by asserting that the BJP has no guts to abrogate Article 370 and Article 35-A of the Constitution from Jammu and Kashmir. “BJP […]
United Nations: After a vote on Friday by the United Nations General Assembly in New York, former two-time President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, hailed a “pioneer” by the UN Secretary-General, has officially been appointed as High Commissioner for Human Rights, effective from 1 September. Minutes after she was voted in, UN chief Antonio Guterres told […]
Srinagar: Joint Resistance leadership has called for a valley wide shutdown on August 15, marking Indian Independence day, to be observed as a black day. JRL comprising of Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik, in a statement said that the ‘Democracy of a nation, which is going to celebrate its independence with […]
