Srinagar: Nocturnal clashes broke out between youth and police on Shab-e- Qadir night in old Town Anantnag. According to the witnesses, some youth gathered at the Sherbagh locality and raised pro-aazadi slogans. Later, they and hurled stones on the police post Sherbagh. The police responded with firing tear gas shells and pellets, triggering clashes. The […]
Uri: A mother daughter duo, who were injured in a gas cylinder blast in Uri village on May 27, lost battle for their lives at SKIMS today. Parveena Akther (35) and her daughter Shaishta Bano (14) succumbed their injuries at SKIMS Soura on early Sunday after being hospitalised for five days. Seven family members including […]
Srinagar: The Kashmir Working Journalists Association (KWJA) is concerned about the repeated incidents of harassment and thrashing of journalists by the police, the spokesman said in a statement. “In the second incident in the past two weeks, a young journalist, Kaiser Andrabi, was thrashed inside police station Fateh Kadal on May 31, when the scribe […]
Srinagar: The State Administrative Council (SAC) has approved establishment of 50 new Degree Colleges across the State. Out of these new colleges, 30 will be established in un-served areas, 10 will be for women in places where there are no separate women colleges and to rationalize the roll of the students in the existing ones. […]
Srinagar: In a bold action which is hailed by people across the board, revenue authorities on Saturday retrieved almost ten kanals of land at Friends Enclave Humhama, known popularly as Bureaucratic Colony as most of the top officers of civil and police administration reside there. The revenue officials headed by a Tehsildar rank official conducted the […]
Srinagar: Unidentfied on Saturday evening lobbed two grenades towards the house of Congress Leader Umer Jaan at Pinglena in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Reports said that the militants one grenade exploded inside the premises of the Congress leader’s house while as another one did not explode. He said that Congress leader was not present at […]
Srinagar: Kashmir Journalist Association (KJA) has strongly condemned the assault on a journalist Kaiser Andrabi in police station Fateh Kadal on Friday. According to Kaiser, policemen slapped, kicked and hit him multiple times with a baton and gun butt inside police station Fateh Kadal last evening for wearing “funky clothes”. He said he was hit […]
Srinagar: Octogenarian Hurriyat patriarch Syed Ali Geelani on Saturday expressed concern over the plight of Chinese Muslims in Uighur China. In a statement, Geelani said that Muslim Ummah is fragmented in the name of sects, sub-sects and geographical boundaries, making themselves an easy prey and a testing species for the deadly weaponry and artilleries of the […]
Jammu: Many landmines exploded along the Line of Control after devastating fire broke out in Mankote and Balakot areas of Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir. “The fire broke out close to the fence on Saturday and it shifted to nearby parts of the border by afternoon,” official sources here said. They said that […]
Srinagar: Governor Satya Pal Malik has saluted the bravery of Tourist Guide Rouf Ahmad Dar, who yesterday lost his life while rescuing tourists from the Lidder river in Pahalgam. He described Rouf as a real life hero who sacrificed his life for saving lives of others. Governor has prayed for eternal peace to the departed […]
