Srinagar: The Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) Friday held a protest demonstration in Kashmir’s capital city Srinagar against the human rights violations across Kashmir Valley. Witnesses said that scores of resistance activists assembled at Maisuma chowk amid pro-freedom slogans. They said that the activists denounced the alleged human rights violations in Kashmir. The JRL comprising of […]
Srinagar: Pakistan Administered Kashmir Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Thursday inaugurated an exhibition of photographs by Belgian photographer and journalist Cedric Gerbehaye on the “human rights violations” in Jammu and Kashmir. The exhibition is part of the 11th Kashmir – EU Week taking place in Brussels from 5th to 8th of November and will continue […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir National Conference leader Omar Abdullah has questioned the Centre’s participation in a dialogue on Afghanistan in the presence of Taliban representatives while holding no talks with stakeholders in Jammu and Kashmir. “If ‘non-official’ participation in a dialogue that includes the taliban is acceptable to the Modi government why not a “non-official” […]
Srinagar: The Srinagar-Jammu highway was yet again on Friday closed for vehicular traffic. Reports said that the highway was closed for traffic following landslides at Battery Cheshma in Ramban. The officials said that men and machinery have been pressed in to clear the road.
New Delhi: In a departure from India’s stand on engaging the Taliban, New Delhi has announced it would participate at a “non-official” level, sending two former senior diplomats to attend talks on the Afghanistan peace process to be held in Russia on Thursday, The Hindu said. It said the talks, known as the “Moscow format” will include a “high-level” […]
Srinagar: Government forces on Friday fired several shots in the air after a bus they were traveling in came under intense stone pelting in bus stand of Tral in southern Kashmir. Witnesses said that the incident has led to a spontaneous shutdown in the town. A fierce gunfight is going on in some fifteen kilometers away from […]
Srinagar: Police have detained some persons in connection with the killing of senior BJP leader Anil Parihar and his brother by militants in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district. While tension has eased out in the district, night curfew continues to remain in force as a precautionary measure. A senior official said that the detained persons […]
Srinagar: CBI Director Alok Verma Friday appeared before a panel headed by Central Vigilance Commissioner K V Chowdary and countered the corruption charges levelled against him by his deputy and special director in the probe agency Rakesh Asthana for the second consecutive day, officials said. Verma is understood to have given point-wise refusal to all the […]
Srinagar: An encounter started between militants and government forces started in Dar-Ganiegund Mohalla of Tral township in southern Kashmir’s Pulwama on Friday. Reports said that gunfight ensued after govt forces cordoned off the village — 15 kms from Tral township after specific inputs about the presence of militants in the area and started a search operation. They said […]
Srinagar: Ahead of the fresh spell of rain and snow forecast next week, minimum temperatures across Jammu and Kashmir improved on Friday. Srinagar and Jammu recorded 1.0 and 12.5 degrees Celsius as the night’s lowest temperatures, respectively, improving from Thursday’s minus 0.4 and 11.5, Met said. “The lowest temperature was recorded in Kargil on Friday […]
