Srinagar: Around three dozen persons including polling staff and government forces personnel were injured in clashes in several parts of Pulwama and Shopian even as the twin districts observed complete shutdown on Monday. At least five polling booths were attacked with grenades and petrol bombs in southern districts. Reports of clashes were received from several […]
Srinagar: As many as 299 polling booths in Pulwama and Shopian district saw no voting in Monday’s elections to the Anantnag Parliamentary seat, sources said. There were 695 polling booths set up in the twin districts spread over six assembly segments of Pampore, Tral, Pulwama, and Rajpora in Pulwama and two in Shopian—Shopian and Wachi. […]
Srinagar: Amid sporadic incidents of violence, the polling for the Anantnag parliamentary polls ended on Monday with the volatile Shopian and Pulwama districts recording a dismal turnout of over 2 percent taking the aggregate turnout to around 20 percent in Kashmir. The Election Commission of India conducted the polls for the Anantnag parliamentary constituency in […]
Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference (G), Syed Ali Geelani said that despite the armed crackdown, “suffocating and obnoxious environment, Indian military might has miserably failed to convenience people of the state to repose faith in its democratic institutions”. According to a statement, Geelani while terming the exemplary election boycott observed by the people of Kashmir as a […]
Srinagar: The Civil secretariat Monday started its functioning in the summer capital Srinagar for the next six months. Governor Satya Paul Malik was given a ceremonial guard of honour by a contingent of the state’s armed police upon his arrival at the secretariat. Civil Secretariat and other offices closed in Jammu reopened here on Monday […]
Srinagar: Civil Secretariat employees on the first day of Darbar move here boycotted the reopening ceremony as a mark of protest against the non-fulfillment of their long pending demands. The employees of the Civil Secretariat here in Srinagar boycotted the reopening ceremony and were seen wearing black bands and black dresses. Vice Chairman of the […]
Jagti Camp: Living miles away from their native place for the past three decades, displaced Kashmiri Pandits Monday voted with the hope for an end to terrorism and peaceful return to their homeland. “We want that South Kashmir should be freed from the twin grave threats (terrorism and radicalisation) to the composite culture of Kashmiriyat,” 65-year-old […]
Pulwama: Massive clashes erupted in several areas of South Kashmir in Pulwama and Shopian districts as polling staff began to withdraw from polling stations. According to reports at least four youth injured in Shopian were clashes broke out this evening. Reports of clashes were also received from Tral, many areas of Shopian and from several villages […]
Jammu: A man was arrested Monday for manufacturing illicit liquor in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district, police said. Acting on a tip-off, a team of police officials raided a house in Palwal village of Sunderbani belt and seized 915 litres of liquor and 50 kgs of Lahaan, which was destroyed on the spot. Another accused, […]
Srinagar: The family of the Kashmiri student, who went missing from a private university in Noida five months ago, on Sunday claimed that he is languishing in a jail in Pakistan. The student has been identified as 23-year-old Syed Wahid who went missing on December 12, 2018. Father of Syed Wahid recently called the Investigation officer […]
