Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir has bagged eight medals, including two gold and five silver, in Jeet Kune Do Martial Arts National championship held at Manipur. Meanwhile, five medalists have been selected to represent the country in the Asian Martial Arts games to be held at Bangkok in Thailand from January 10, 2019, Rameez Khan, General Secretary […]
New Delhi: Punjab Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Capt. Amarinder Singh on Tuesday urged Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan to ‘stop’ actions by various anti-India forces in his country if he is ‘serious’ about peace with India and alleged that the ‘proposed Kartarpur Convention 2019’ of US-based Sikh for Justice (SFJ) is in effect an […]
Srinagar: Stating that the BJP is trying to create 2008 like situation in the state for electoral gains, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has strongly condemned the hateful language and threats issued to the Muslim community during the ‘Dharam Sansad’ organized by VHP and RSS at Jammu. In a statement issued here, former minister and senior PDP […]
Srinagar: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Member of Parliament Mir Mohammad Fayaz on Tuesday protested inside the premises of Parliament against the recent civilian killings in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Fayaz hails from north Kashmir’s Kupwara district, and is a sitting Member of Parliament in the upper house or Rajya Sabha. Wearing a white T-shirt inscribed […]
Islamabad: Prime Minister Imran Khan said Tuesday that Pakistan will do everything within its power to further the peace process in Afghanistan as talks sponsored by the country between the US and the Taliban were being held in the UAE to end the 17-year bloody conflict. The US and the Taliban have previously met on […]
Jammu: In a second such incident this month, a leopard has killed a three-year-old boy in a remote hilly village in Mahore area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district, officials said Tuesday. A massive search operation has been launched to track down the beast which had earlier struck in Kansoli village of Mahore belt on […]
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir administration has decided to resolve the service-related grievances of its employees through a new committee which will hold its first hearing on Wednesday, officials said. The new Service Grievance Committee (SGC), set up by the administration to resolve the issues of its workers, will conduct its maiden hearing on December […]
Srinagar:On the JRL call of Joint Resistance Leadership funeral prayers in absentia were offered to slain Pulwama civilians at Maisuma, Hyderpora and at Jamia Masjid in Srinagar, Kashmir’s capital city. The funeral prayers were attended by several people including activists of both factions of Hurriyat and other separatist organisation. “As we mourn the #PulwamaMassacreall roads […]
Srinagar: Six militants including a Taliban judge were killed after Afghan force aircraft attacked a Taliban hideout in Dawlat Abad district of the northern Faryab province on Monday, said an army statement released Tuesday. “Mullah Rasoul the Taliban shadow judge for Faryab province was killed along with five armed insurgents after fighting aircraft targeted Taliban hideout […]
Srinagar:A worrying pattern is emerging in Kashmir where security forces are increasingly using indiscriminate and excessive force against civilians, the Amnesty India said on Monday, two days after forces killed at least seven civilians in Pulwama district in southern Kashmir. Responding to Saturday’s clashes between forces and civilians near a gunfight site in Pulwama, leading […]
