Srinagar: The residents of several areas in central Kashmir’s Budgam district Wednesday staged massive protests against the Power Development Department against frequent power shutdowns. Reports said that inhabitants of Panzan, Raipora and its adjoining areas held a protest demonstration and blocked the road connecting district headquarter Budgam due to which hundreds of vehicles remained stranded. […]
Srinagar: The foreign minister of Turkey said on Monday that some Western countries try to ‘cover up’ the murder of the well-known journalist and Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi. “We see how those, who speak of freedom of press in the world, cover this thing up when they see money,” Mevlut Cavusoglu told youth conference attendees […]
Srinagar: A gunfight ensued in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district Wednesday afternoon. Reports said that government forces laid a siege to Binner area of Rafiabad in Baramulla district Wednesday following inputs about presence of militants. A the joint teams of forces including army and SOG of Jammu and Kashmir police zeroed in on the location where militants […]
Srinagar: The army on Wednesday resorted to aerial firing to disperse the stone pelting protesters in south Kashmir’s Shopian village. Reports said that a groups of youth pelted stones at a military camp in Chillipora village of the district after returning from the funeral prayers of a local slain militant. They said that the army […]
Srinagar: A massive snow-clearance operation is underway to restore the 270-km Jammu-Srinagar National Highway which remained closed for vehicular traffic for the third consecutive day Wednesday, officials said. The snow clearance operation on both sides of the Jawahar Tunnel – the gateway to Kashmir – was started and the snow-clearance operation is going on in full […]
Srinagar: Six funeral’s are being held in six neighbouring villages of Shopian and Pulwama districts in south Kashmir on Wednesday. Thousands of people have assembled at six different villages of the twin south Kashmir districts to offer funeral prayers of the six slain militants and bid adieu to them. Reports from south said that people in […]
Srinagar: Southern Kashmir’s Pulwama and Shopian districts are observing a complete shutdown on Wednesday to protest and mourn the killings of six militants in two separate encounters in Shopian and Budgam districts. Reports said that all the shops and business establishments are shut in the twin districts and traffic is mostly off the roads. On January, […]
Kashmir’s IAS topper, Shah Faisal, who recently plunged into politics has sought public donations. This is a first of its kind development in the recent political history of Kashmir. Faesal who recently resigned from civil services in a social media post said that it is a people’s movement for a change and asked people […]
Srinagar: Government forces Wednesday morning launched a cordon and searc operation in Binner village of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Reports said a joint team of Army’s 46 RR, SOG of Jammu and Kashmir Police and the CRPF launched a CASO in Jamia Mohalla, Binner village of Baramulla District. Door to door searches were going […]
Srinagar: Chinese Ambassador in Islamabad Yao Jing has said that his country will “pick Afghan Taliban as a political force” in the backdrop of their participation in the ongoing peace talks with the US and at other forums. Speaking at a roundtable conference at the Area Study Centre, University of Peshawar, on Tuesday, he said […]
