Srinagar: The residents of Siddiqabad Nagbal in Ganderbal on Monday expressed dismay over the unscheduled power cuts in the area. A delegation of the area told Kashmir Press that the electricity has been playing hide and seek and that they experience longer power outages during the day as well as nights. They said that the residents […]
New Delhi: Short film “Stones & Wounds” uses the premise of stone pelting to tell the story of common people of Kashmir, who are stuck between two different ideologies, says co-director Aditya Raj Somani. Somani, who runs Hera Pheri Films and has co-directed the film with Sachin Malvi, said though the film is just 15-minutes in […]
Srinagar: The women’s wing of National Conference on Monday held a protest rally in Srinagar against the unscheduled power cuts across Kashmir valley. The protest rally, led by MLA Habba Kadal, Shameema Firdous, was taken out from NC party headquarters Nawa-i-Subh to Polo View. Scores of NC women workers were carrying placards and shouting slogans […]
Jammu: A condolence meeting was convened in the Civil Secretariat here today to mourn the demise of Mohammad Iqbal Khandey, former J&K Chief Secretary, who passed away in Srinagar this morning. Advisor to Governor, K Vijay Kumar, Chief Secretary, BVR Subrahmanyam, Administrative Secretaries and other senior officers attended the condolence meeting. Advisor Kumar remembered Iqbal […]
Srinagar: Former External Affairs Minister of India and senior Congress leader K Natwar Singh has said taking Kashmir to the UN was a mistake. He has claimed the move was the doing of Lord Mountbatten. “The fundamental mistake was to go to the UN on the Kashmir issue. (Prime Minister Jawaharlal) Nehru was pushed into […]
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister’s Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti on Monday condoled the demise of former chief secretary Muhammad Iqbal Khanday. The 1978-batch IAS officer passed away late last night at SKIMS Soura. Omar, the National Conference Working president, took to twitter and wrote: “Sorry to hear about the demise of Iqbal Khanday […]
Srinagar: Jama’at-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir has denounced the “harsh step” of shifting twenty three Kashmiri detenues from Kotbalwal and Kathua jails in Jammu to some jail in Haryana, instead of shifting these political detainees from Jammu to the Valley to facilitate their near and dear ones to meet them and expedite the trials going on against […]
Srinagar: The Two-Day International conference on ‘Contemporary Discourse on Women in Islam’ began at Islamic University of Science and Technology on Monday. Head Department of Islamic Studies, Dr. Afroz Ahmad Bisati welcomed the guests and participants and gave a context to need for organizing the conference and the questions revolving around women and Islam. The keynote […]
Hurriyat patriarch Syed Ali Geelani Sunday said that ‘a true supporter of Kashmir struggle will never vote’. He asserted that when people were killed in 2016 for participating in the funeral of militant commander Burhan Wani, “all vote-seeking parties were watching the bloodbath of innocent people as mute spectators”. Addressing a Seerat conference organized by […]
Srinagar: The Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kashmir range Swayam Prakash Pani has said that the execution video’s of “civilians” by militants in Kashmir is a reflection of ‘terror’ crimes. Speaking to News 24 channel, the IGP Kashmir said that the people propagating these ‘brutal’ videos on social media are also under scanner and police will initiate a […]
