Srinagar: Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, Baseer Ahmad Khan, today convened a meeting to review the arrangements for smooth conduct examinations of various categories of posts to be conducted from May 09 to 26 by J&K Services Selection Board (JKSSB). The meeting discussed various issues besides ensuring foolproof arrangements to ensure fair and smooth conduct of the exams. […]
Srinagar: Traders Association and Sumo Union Anantnag threatened to launch an agitation if imposition of toll tax was not revoked forthwith. Describing it as anti-people, Hakkem Sajad Shah General Secretary All traders and manufacturers Association Anantnag said that the toll tax shall be collected from only outsiders and not from people of expressed serious concern […]
Srinagar: Terming a dismal percentage of 0.76 percent recorded in Pulwama segment in the third and final phase of Anantnag Parliamentary constituency on Monday ‘unprecedented’, Jammu and Kashmir People’s Movement (JKPM) chief Shah Faesal said the existing political parties should hang their heads in shame. Faesal, a former IAS officer, said 99.24 percent voters in Pulwama […]
Mitarlam: Four police officers, including a district police chief, were killed in a bomb blast in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Laghman on Tuesday, the provincial government confirmed. “Alingar district police Chief Colonel Harif Saadat was martyred together with three police officers following an improvised explosive device attack in Miskinabad locality of Alingar,” the government said […]
Jammu: Several landmines have exploded along the Line of Control after devastating fire broke out in Mankote area of Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir. “The fire broke out close to the fence on Monday due to heavy shelling and unprovoked firing by the Pakistan and it spread to nearby parts of the border by […]
Lahore: At least 10 Chinese nationals, including a woman, have been arrested in Pakistan for allegedly luring young Pakistani girls into fake marriages then forcing them into prostitution in China, the country’s premier probe agency has said. The Federal Investigating Agency (FIA) arrested eight Chinese nationals, including a woman, on Monday and last week, two Chinese […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Police on Tuesday claimed to have arrested a notorious drug peddler on the outskirts of Sopore in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. An official said a police team signaled a motorcyclist to stop at a naka set up at Achabal crossing in Sopore. He said the motorcyclist was apprehended while two pillion […]
Srinagar: CPI (M) leader M Y Tarigami on Tuesday said that the indiscriminate arrests of youths across Kashmir and particularly in southern districts of the Valley in the recent times will erode people’s trust in the government further and widen the gulf which would be difficult to bridge. In a statement issued to KNS, Tarigami […]
Washington: China is using its government power through the Belt and Road Initiative to achieve its national security objective, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo alleged Monday, asserting that the Trump administration is leading global efforts to inform countries about the “predatory” Chinese economics. The Trump administration has been extremely critical of President Xi Jinping’s trillion-dollar […]
Srinagar: Scores of students of Kashmir University’s Sociology department on Tuesday held a protest sit-in inside the department lawns to pay tributes to Professor Muhammad Rafi. Rafi was killed in a gunfight with government forces on May 6 last year in southern Kashmir’s Shopian district. He had joined the militant ranks a day earlier. Reports said […]
