Srinagar: Former independent lawmaker Engineer Rasheed along with his party workers Monday held a sit-in protest in Srinagar against the State Administrative Council’s decision to turn Jammu and Kashmir Bank into a Public Sector Undertaking. The protest was held outside the corporate headquarters of Jammu and Kashmir bank on Moulana Azad road here. Addressing the protesters, […]
Srinagar: Six men have been detained on suspicion from the Pathankot railway station, Punjab Police officials said Monday. They were on board the Pooja Express from Jammu to Ajmer in Rajasthan, when security forces stopped the train in Pathankot late Sunday and took them in custody, a news gathering agency reported. The Punjab Police and […]
Srinagar: Minimum temperatures across Kashmir rose marginally owing to a partial cloud cover Monday, with Ladakh region witnessing a continuous intense cold wave, the Meteorological Department said. Kargil town was the coldest at minus 8.6, followed by Leh at minus 8.4 degrees Celsius, a MeT official said. The same weather conditions are likely to continue […]
Srinagar: Train service was again suspended on Monday for security reasons in the Kashmir valley, where Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) has called for a general strike against civilian and militant killings during the past one week. ‘We have again suspended all train runs in the Kashmir valley following a fresh advisory from police last night, […]
Srinagar: A complete shutdown is being observed across Kashmir Monday against the killing of six militants and a civilian in a gunfight with government forces on Sunday in a nocturnal gunfight. An Indian army soldier was also killed in the gunfight. Government fearing protests and clashes made additional deployment of government forces personnel at several […]
Srinagar: The Governor’s administration has made it clear that the board of directors of J&K Bank was its supreme decision-making body and remained unquestioned. An official spokesman said while concerns had been raised in certain isolated quarters, people of the state by and large had hailed the decision of the State Administrative Council (SAC) to […]
Srinagar: Peoples’ Conference on Sunday said National Conference continued to be a party that was bereft of shame and that shamelessness had been the party’s biggest asset in its mission of duping and exploiting the people of Kashmir over the past many decades. Peoples’ Conference Spokesperson on Sunday said National Conference was at the root […]
Srinagar: Unidentified persons hurled a hand grenade at the house of newly elected unopposed sarpanch in Tral in Pulwama district of south Kashmir, where similar attack was made at the house of candidate who had filed nomination papers for panch on Saturday night, official sources said. They said a grenade was hurled at the residence […]
Srinagar: Calling for an immediate rollback of the decision taken by State Administrative Council to treat the J&K Bank Ltd as a public-sector bank, former Chief Minister and President Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mehbooba Mufti has said that the Governor administration is taking such decisions which “smack of attempts to fiddle with the basic characters […]
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir Police has arrested a drug peddler with intoxicant capsules in Samba district of the state on Saturday. A police party during patrolling on the highway intercepted a man and recovered 550 intoxicant capsules from his possession, they said. The accused was identified as Bashir Ahmad alias Imran of Uttar Pardesh, they […]
