Jammu: Over 78 lakh voters, including nearly 38 lakh women, would decide the fate of dozens of candidates from the six Lok Sabha seats in Jammu and Kashmir, which are going to polls in five-phased election beginning Thursday. They include over 4.25 lakh new voters and 159 transgenders, State Chief Electoral Officer Shailendra Kumar told PTI. […]
Jammu: Panun Kashmir Monday appealed the Election Commission to ban candidates of the NC and the PDP from contesting the Lok Sabha polls as they were running a “seditious and secessionist” campaign in the valley. The campaign launched by the National Conference and the Peoples Democratic Party that accession of Jammu and Kashmir with India was […]
Srinagar: Senior PDP leader and Former Minister Naeem Akhtar has said that victory of PDP’s Candidate for Baramulla Lok Sabha Constituency Abdul Qayoom Wani will be a compliment for thousands of teachers, middle class and low paid employees of Jammu and Kashmir. Interacting with party functionaries, workers, activists and supporters, Akhtar said that as a teacher […]
Srinagar: United Jihad Council (UJC) has termed the summoning of Mirwaiz Umar Farooq to Delhi by NIA for questioning as extremely condemnable and said such attempts to weaken the “freedom struggle” of Kashmiris are bound to fail. “Such attempts to weaken the freedom struggle of Kashmiris through NIA have failed in the past and will […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Police on Monday sought help of general public in tracing a missing person, a resident of Krangsoo Anantnag. “A written application was filed at Police Station Mattan by Shareefa Banoo a resident of Krangsoo that her husband Shakeel Ahmad Hajam, son of Gh Rasool Hajam, 40 years old wearing grey color kurta shalwar and black Colour Putto is missing since […]
Srinagar: The West Bank is “absolutely” a territory of Palestinians, said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, lambasting Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu for his remarks on annexing Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank if re-elected. Speaking to reporters ahead of his departure for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the capital Moscow, Erdogan […]
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and president of National Conference (NC) Dr Farooq Abdullah Monday said abrogation of Article 370 will pave way for ‘Azadi’ for the people of the state. The debate over the abrogation of the Article 370 has turned into a major controversy in the state following a bunch of […]
Srinagar: Suspected militants on Monday lobbed a grenade on a CRPF bunker at Gulshan Nagar, Nowgam in outskirts of Srinagar City. Reports said that suspected militants hurled a grenade on CRPF 117 bn bunker Gulshan Nagar, Nowgam. Confirming the incident a police officer said that the device, however, did not explode. The officer said that […]
Srinagar: The medicines meant for distribution among patients free of cost at Kashmir’s tertiary care hospital SKIMS Soura, the medicine supply in bulk, worth lacs of rupees was on Monday recovered from a medical shop in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district. On Monday, a team of officials led by Drug Inspector raided a medical shop at Chittay […]
Srinagar:All Parties Sikh Coordination Committee (APSCC) has expressed deep anguish and concern over the defacement of a Gurdwara located in Leh area of Ladakh division of Jammu & Kashmir. The Committee has urged Governor Satya Pal Malik to intervene and get the matter resolved within shortest possible time. In a statement, APSCC Chairman Jagmohan Singh […]
