Srinagar: A major face lift exercise has been launched by the Estates Department besides other agencies including Srinagar Municipal Corporation, ahead of Darbar move to the summer capital of the State. The move offices closed in Jammu yesterday and will reopen on May 7 here in Srinagar. Official sources said that the Civil Secretariat, the […]
Srinagar: Amid shutdown, the traders associations in Tangmarg and Gulmarg area of Baramulla district Saturday staged a protest and blocked highway at Tangmarg against Gulmarg Gandola for starting online ticket selling process. Protesters said that e-ticketing is direct attack on their livelihood as “we were earning our livelihood by helping the tourists in getting the […]
Srinagar: Over 3.45 lakh electors are going to exercise their franchise in Kulgam district in the second leg of three-phased schedule for Anantnag Parliamentary Constituency on April 29. The district is spread over four assembly segments comprising Noorabad, Kulgam, Hom Shali Bugh and Devsar. The South Kashmir district has 345,486 electors including 179,607 males, 164,604 […]
Srinagar: National General Secretary of BJP Ram Madhav on Saturday blamed regional political parties and their leadership for creating Kashmir problem. Addressing a workers convention in Dak Bungalow, Anantnag, Madhav said, “the 1987 Rajiv-Farooq accord is the reason behind the present deteriorated situation in the valley”. He added, “rigging of 1987 polls by Dr Farooq […]
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir Governor Administration has set up an eight-member state-level coordination committee for smooth conduct of seventh economic census. The chief secretary will be the chairman of the committee, according to an order by the additional secretary of General Administration Department (GAD), Subash Chibber. The members include secretaries of various departments — […]
Srinagar: Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kashmir Range, SP Pani on Saturday visited SKIMS Soura to inquire into the condition of policeman injured in last evening Srinagar militant attack. Constable Feroz Ahmad who was badly injured in the attack at Chanapora police station is being treated at SKIMS Soura. Don’t stop trucks unnecessarily, say new […]
Faizabad: Four Taliban militants were killed and two others injured as their explosive device exploded prematurely in Wardoj district of Afghanistan’s northern Badakhshan province on Saturday, local police official Abdul Haq said. A group of armed insurgents, according to the official, were planting a mine on a road in Tirgaran area of Wardoj district when […]
It might sound astonishing to many, but history shows that arch rivals India and Pakistan have always come closer when the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), a right-wing nationalist party, was ruling India. In fact, relations between the two nuclear powers reached their nadir, when the Congress party, considered centrist by many, was at […]
Srinagar: Violent mobsters on Saturday attacked the deputy commissioner’s office and burned the effigy of governor Satya Pal Malik’s effigy in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir. Reports said a mob of more than hundred people protested against the alleged failure of the administration to nab the killers of RSS leader Chandrakant Sharma and Parihar brothers. They […]
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday hit out at the Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remarks on abrogating Article 370. “If (PM) Modi thinks that Kashmir is in loss because of Article 370 then why they don’t leave Kashmir,” replied Mehbooba when asked by […]
