Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir National Conference working president and former chief minister Omar Abdullah has taken a dig at the Bharatiya Janata Party after the party roped in a former militant commander to fight the Urban Local Body elections. The former militant had returned to this side of Jammu and Kashmir under the rehabilitation policy […]
Srinagar: The Government of India on Wednesday has red-flagged the visit of Iranian clerics to Jammu and Kashmir amid reports of fiery speeches being given by them at congregations and mosques. The immediate trigger seems to be the posters of Hizbul Mujahideen “commander” Burhan Wani that surfaced during a Muharram procession in Kashmir last month, […]
Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference (M) chairperson Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Wednesday denounced the arrest of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chief Muhammad Yasin Malik on Tuesday. Condemning Yasin Malik’s arrest, Mirwaiz termed it ‘arbitrary and an act of intimidation’ He said that no intimation can stop the pro-freedom leadership from speaking truth and serving the cause […]
Srinagar: A Kashmiri Pandit group has sought United Nations’ intervention for withdrawal of a postage stamp issued in Pakistan, alleging it had pictures of their protest to highlight human rights violations in Kashmir. The group has written a letter to United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres seeking his intervention for the stamp’s withdrawal. A major […]
Srinagar: Fisheries department employees on Wednesday held a protest demonstration in Srinagar’s press enclave against the amendments in recruitment rules of the department. The protesters said that the fisheries department has amended rules in recruitment policy under which the direct recruitment will be applied and existing employees at their concerned post will not attain promotion. […]
Indonesia: The death toll in Indonesia’s twin quake-tsunami disaster rose to nearly 1,400 Wednesday, with time running out to rescue survivors and the UN warning of “vast” unmet needs. Authorities set a tentative deadline of Friday to find anyone still trapped under rubble, at which point — a week after this devastating double disaster — […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir police on Wednesday used tear smoke shells to disperse the class 11 students protesting the deferment of examinations in Sopore town of northern Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Eyewitnesses said that protests erupted in Sopore after students of class 11 of higher secondary school Sopore took to streets shouting slogans against the […]
Kabul: A suicide bomber struck an election rally in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province on Tuesday, killing at least 14 people and wounding around 40, a provincial official said. The attack, the first since campaigning began last week ahead of elections for the lower house of parliament, underscored the widespread violence gripping the country 17 years […]
Jammu: Army on Tuesday busted a suspected militant hideout in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district and recovered a cache of arms, an official said. Acting on a tip-off, a search operation was conducted in Kuddhar area of Bhagwah block and recovered arms, ammunition and explosive material, a defence spokesperson said. The recoveries included two AK […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir police has strongly denied the media reports that two army personnel were injured in a militant attack in south Kashmir district of Kulgam on Tuesday night. Several television channels had last night claimed that militants ambushed an army patrol party ay Redwani, Kulgam in which two army men were injured. […]
