Srinagar: A gunfight ensued between government forces and militants in Pulwama village of southern Kashmir on Friday morning. Sources said that the gunfight erupted in Renzipora village of the district after a joint team of government forces including Army, Jammu and Kashmir police’s Special Operations Group and CRPF paramilitary forces cordoned the village. “As the cordon […]
Srinagar: Directing the government to strictly adhere to the mandate of the Jammu and Kashmir Right to Information (RTI) Act 2009 in letter and spirit, the state High Court (HC) said authorities should comply with all the clauses of the act, particularly with section 4, which calls for voluntary disclosure of information by all its […]
Srinagar: Justice Hasnain Masoodi has asked Chairperson BOSE to conduct examination of Ubaid Nazir Bhat, a class 12 student from Shopian. Ubaid Nazir, less than 18 years of age was on 29th October picked by Police Station Imam Saheb reportedly in place of his brother and detained at Police Station and let off after two […]
Srinagar: Asserting that the main aim and objective of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was to guarantee peace and stability in the state, senior PDP leader Abdul Rehman Veeri said their government in the state empowered youth and was successful in withdrawing more than twelve thousand FIRs registered against the youngsters. “The party accorded a […]
Srinagar: Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) comprising Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik strongly condemned the ill and inhuman treatment meted out to the political prisoners from Kashmir lodged in Kathua jail stating that many inmates lodged there have been severely thrashed by the jail authorities which is not only unacceptable but […]
Srinagar: The teachers associated with Contractual Teachers Association of Kashmir (CTAK) on Thursday staged a protest demonstration in favour of their demand of continuation of their teaching services at educational institutions. Scores of the teachers assembled at press enclave and sought the intervention of authorities so that all the teachers under CTAK can continue their […]
Srinagar: South Kashmir’s Kulgam district Thursday observed a shutdown on Thursday against frequent power cuts in the district. All shops and other commercial establishments remained shut in the area while skeletal movement of transport was observed on the roads. The call for shutdown was forwarded by People’s Welfare committee of District Kulgam that also held […]
Srinagar: Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Srinagar on Thursday issued an arrest warrant against former MLA Zadibal Molvi Abid Ansari for failing to appear before the court in connection with the criminal defamation case filed by former minister and senior PDP leader Naeem Akhtar. Akhtar on November 16, this year had filed a criminal defamation suit […]
Srinagar: Tehreek-e-Hurriyat chairperson Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai Thursday condemned the ill-treatment meted out to pro-freedom leader Mushtaq ul Islam at Haryana Jail and said that he has been kept in solitary confinement in a small cell. Sehrai, in a statement, said that the pro-freedom leadership and the youth of Jammu and Kashmir day in and day […]
Srinagar: The report submitted by the police before the State Human Rights Commission has stated that the bag maker of Noorbagh who was killed on September 27 this year was injured after militants fired indiscriminately to take advantage of darkness to flee from the spot. “During the course of investigation, while as cordon was laid, […]
