Srinagar: Scores of students of Islamic University of Science and Technology Awantipora on Tuesday protested in the varsity campus against the killing of slain scholar turned militant Mannan Wani and his accomplice. Witnesses said that the students of various departments of the varsity assembled in the varsity campus and later amid massive pro freedom and […]
Srinagar: As the fourth and last phase of the ongoing municipal elections kicked off in Kashmir, Ganderbal municipal committee recorded a turnouit of 483 voters till 9 am Tuesday. Official sources put the total voter turnout at 5.60 percent.
Srinagar: Polling will be held only for two municipalities — Ganderbal and parts of Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) — in the fourth and last phase of civic elections on Tuesday in Kashmir, which has seen a dismal voter turnout of 6.7 per cent so far. Reports said that out of eight municipalities, which were scheduled […]
Srinagar: After former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and Peoples Democratic Party [resident Mehbooba Mufti described slain Hizbul Mujahideen commander Manan Wani a “victim of relentless violence in Kashmir”, National Conference (NC) vice-president Omar Abdullah Monday accused her of showing “fake sympathy”, saying it worked in the past but would not work now. “How short […]
Srinagar: At least 2 CRPF personnel sustained bullet injury following suspected militant attack in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, reports said The injured personnel belonged 183 bn CRPF and were identified as Constable Amit kumar who sustained bullet injuryon shoulder while constable Santosh bharti sustained bullet injury in hand, reports added Both were shifted to District […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Monday refuted the reports that a private school teacher of southern Kashmir’s Chee village in Islamabad district had joined militant ranks. In a statement, a police spokesperson said that a photograph of a private school teacher from Chee Islamabad was circulated on social media platforms describing him as […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir police on Monday ordered promotion of 337 J&K police personnel in different cadres and ranks. The promoted personnel include 32 Inspectors, 295 Sub inspectors, three ASIs and seven Head Constables. “20 Sis (M), 12 Sis (S), 9 ASIs (Tel), three ASIs, one ASI (s), two HCs (M) and seven Sg Cts […]
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti on Monday said that scholar turned militant Mannan Bashir Wani was a victim of relentless violence in Kashmir. Wani was killed in a gunfight along with accomplice in northern Kashmir’s Handwara on Thursday last. Following his killing, Kashmiri AMU students had […]
Srinagar: The Kashmiri students of Maulana Azad National Urdu University have expressed anguish and disappointment over the “colonial charges” leveled against Kashmiri students on fabricated issues at AMU. “Kashmiri students who were expressing their concern and peacefully discussing the new unfolding in Kashmir near Kennedy Hall were assaulted by some non-Kashmiri people. Kashmiri students exercised restraint […]
Srinagar: Seven Indian Army personnel, including a major general, have been sentenced to life imprisonment in a 24-year-old fake encounter case in Assam by an army court martial. Five people, members of the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) Prabin Sonowal, Pradip Dutta, Debajit Biswas, Akhil Sonowal and Bhaben Moran, were killed in the fake encounter, […]
