SRINAGAR: The State Administrative Council (SAC) which met under the chairmanship of Governor, Satya Pal Malik approved notification of the “Road Accident Victims Fund” along with scheme for realization and disbursal of amount. The objective of the fund is to provide immediate succor to the dependents/ kith and kins/ legal heirs of the persons killed/ […]
Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference (G) on Friday while expressing serious concern about the “worsening health” of its chairman Syed Ali Geelani, appealed the people to pray for his speedy recovery. In a statement, a spokesperson of Hurriyat said that although “physical weakness” of Geelani is due to his advanced age, but “continued confinement in his house […]
Jammu: A woman and her son were killed when their mud house collapsed due to heavy showers in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district Friday, officials said. The incident occurred in Drabshalla area, they said, adding that locals recovered the bodies from the debris, they said. The deceased were identified as Prithiv Raj (40), and his mother […]
Srinagar: The CPI (M) on Friday said that the decision of the Governor’s administration to ban civilian traffic on Srinagar-Jammu national highway for five hours every day and suspension on Banihal-Qazigund railway track for four hours during Amarnath yatra will lead to massive socio-economic problems in the landlocked Kashmir valley. ‘It will not only affect the […]
Srinagar: Terming an FIR against Mubeen Farooqi, lawyer who represented Kathua rape and murder victim, as baseless, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Friday said why will people fight for justice if they are punished for doing so. Mufti, who is the president of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said it is obvious […]
Srinagar: Peoples United Front — an alliance between the parties of bureaucrat-turned-politician Shah Faesal and former MLA Sheikh Abdul Rashid — Friday staged a sit-in here to protest the ban on civilian traffic on a stretch of Kashmir highway for over five hours a day during Amarnath yatra. Members of the front led by Rashid […]
Srinagar: Government forces on Friday morning busted a militant hideout amid a gunfight in which one militant was killed in the orchards at Narwani area of South Kashmir’s Shopian district. Reports said that the joint team of Army and SOG busted a hideout and recovered utensils beside a gas cylinder amid the operation. Earlier, one […]
Srinagar: Director General of Jammu and Police Dilbag Singh late Thursday evening ordered the posting of 17 newly-placed in-charge Deputy Superintendents of Police (DySP), besides transferring an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) among thirty-five others. An order issued from the Home department reads, “Consequent upon their placement as in-charge DySP, 17 officers are adjusted with immediate […]
Srinagar: A body of 25-year old youth was found inside a water tank at Achabal area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Friday. Reports said that some locals spotted the body inside water tank (water reservoir) constructed by PHE department in forest area of Achabal and immediately informed police about it. A police team reached the […]
Srinagar: The Shiv Sena has said that the real danger to Kashmir is not from Pakistan but from Kashmiri leaders who, it said, are the enemies of Kashmiri people. Party mouthpiece Saamana said that the main issue in Kashmir is not the Assembly polls but the abrogation of Article 370. In an editorial in Saamana, it […]
