Kashmir Press Club condemns false & motivated smear campaign against Kashmiri journalist Baba Umar, demands apology

Kashmir Press Club condemns false & motivated smear campaign against Kashmiri journalist Baba Umar, demands apology

SRINAGAR: The Kashmir Press Club (KPC) strongly condemns the false and motivated smear campaign against a Kashmiri journalist working in an international media organisation TRT.  Journalist Baba Umar who is currently working with an international news organisation in Turkey in an email to Kashmir Press Club stated that dangerous false allegations were leveled in a […]

Krishana Dhaba Owner’s Son Succumbs To Injuries In Srinagar

Krishana Dhaba Owner’s Son Succumbs To Injuries In Srinagar

Srinagar, Feb 28: Eleven days after being fired upon here, Akash Kumar son of Rasmesh Kumar Mehra—owner of popular eatery (Krishna Dhaba) here—succumbed to the wounds at a hospital in Srinagar, officials said on Sunday. They said Akash (25) , a resident of Janipur Jammu, at present Dalgate Srinagar, died at the SMHS hospital at […]

Avian Influenza in Poultry: First positive case confirmed in Baramulla

Avian Influenza in Poultry: First positive case confirmed in Baramulla

Baramulla, Feb 27:  After crows, the first case of Avian Influenza, commonly known as Bird Flu has been confirmed among poultry in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Saturday. An officia said that a sample of poultry from Iqbal market Baramulla was taken, which was declared positive following which ten kilometres from the epicenter has been […]

J&K sets ball rolling for establishment of Industrial Development Corporation

J&K sets ball rolling for establishment of Industrial Development Corporation

Srinagar, Feb 27: The administration of J & K Union Territory has set the ball rolling for setting up of the Jammu & Kashmir Industrial Development Corporation. In a significant development, the department of Industries and Commerce has constituted a three-member committee for devising a roadmap for implementation of the amendments incorporated by the Ministry of […]

LoC ceasefire will not affect anti-militancy operations in J&K: Army

LoC ceasefire will not affect anti-militancy operations in J&K: Army

Jammu February 27: Army Northern Commander Lt. Gen. Y K  Joshi  on Saturday said that the agreement between India and Pakistan to strictly abide by the ceasefire agreement with the Line of Control would have no effect on counter-militancy operations in Jammu and Kashmir. He said that the Northern Command, which looks after the security […]

J&K Assembly may have 18 seats reserved for SCs, STs

J&K Assembly may have 18 seats reserved for SCs, STs

Jammu, Feb 27: The Delimitation Commission is likely to reserve around 18 Assembly seats out of a total of 90 for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir from constituencies with maximum population of the two communities.  According to the official sources who are in know of things, for […]

Pak PM says ‘India must take necessary steps to meet’ long standing demand of Kashmiri people’

Pak PM says ‘India must take necessary steps to meet’ long standing demand of Kashmiri people’

Srinagar: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday welcomed the initiative to restore the ceasefire agreement along the Line of Control (LoC) between India and Pakistan. However, Khan said  that the onus of creating an ‘enabling’ environment between the two countries rests with India. “I welcome restoration of the ceasefire along the LOC,” Khan said in […]