Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister’s Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti on Monday condoled the demise of former chief secretary Muhammad Iqbal Khanday. The 1978-batch IAS officer passed away late last night at SKIMS Soura. Omar, the National Conference Working president, took to twitter and wrote: “Sorry to hear about the demise of Iqbal Khanday […]
Srinagar: Jama’at-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir has denounced the “harsh step” of shifting twenty three Kashmiri detenues from Kotbalwal and Kathua jails in Jammu to some jail in Haryana, instead of shifting these political detainees from Jammu to the Valley to facilitate their near and dear ones to meet them and expedite the trials going on against […]
Srinagar: The Two-Day International conference on ‘Contemporary Discourse on Women in Islam’ began at Islamic University of Science and Technology on Monday. Head Department of Islamic Studies, Dr. Afroz Ahmad Bisati welcomed the guests and participants and gave a context to need for organizing the conference and the questions revolving around women and Islam. The keynote […]
Hurriyat patriarch Syed Ali Geelani Sunday said that ‘a true supporter of Kashmir struggle will never vote’. He asserted that when people were killed in 2016 for participating in the funeral of militant commander Burhan Wani, “all vote-seeking parties were watching the bloodbath of innocent people as mute spectators”. Addressing a Seerat conference organized by […]
Srinagar: A Government school building was gutted in a fire incident in Hatmulla area of north Kashmir district of Kupwara on Sunday evening. Reports said that fire broke out in a building of government Middle school Hatmulla area of Drugmulla in the evening and building has suffered damages partially. A team of fire and emergency men […]
A partial cloud cover over Jammu and Kashmir that helped improve the minimum temperatures across the state on Monday, will continue along with the dry weather, the Met said. Kargil in Ladakh region was the coldest at minus 8.8 degrees Celsius, a Met official said, adding that the dry spell was likely to remain for the next three days […]
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief secretary Iqbal Khanday passed away Monday morning. Reports said that Khanday was suffering from cancer for some time before breathing his last here today. The 1978 batch IAS officer Khanday held various positions in the state government before taking the top position.
Srinagar: For the Phase-VI of Panchayat Polls, 1716 candidates are in the fray for 590 Sarpanch Halqas and 6689 candidates for 4546 Panch wards across the State after scrutiny of nominations. Voting and counting for Phase-VI of Panchayat Polls-2018 is scheduled be held on December 1, this year. According to the Chief Electoral Officer, J&K, […]
Srinagar: Inspector General (IG) of Police Kashmir S.P. Pani, accompanied by Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of police, South Kashmir Range Amit Kumar visited Southern Kashmir’s District Shopian and held a detailed security review meeting with the officers of the district. Senior Superintendent of Police, Shopian Sandeep Choudhry (IPS) received IGP Kashmir and DIG. IGP Kashmir […]
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and National Conference working president has condemned the killing of class 11 students by militants in southern Kashmir’s Shopian district and termed it deeply disturbing. The cold blooded murder of an 11th standard student by the Hizbul Mujahideen terror outfit is deeply disturbing. There can be no justification […]
