Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir police has arrested over two dozen people in southern Kashmir’s Pulwama district in last two days, reports said on Monday. “Over 30 youth have been arrested by the police since Sunday morning in separate raids,” reports quoting sources said. The arrests have been made in two separate incidents on early Sunday […]
Srinagar: Protests erupted in Kashmir University on Monday against the killing of scholar turned militant Mannan Wani and bis accomplice. Sources said that hundreds of students marched in the varsity campus protesting against Mannan Wani’s killing amidst intense pro freedom sloganeeing. Mannan Bashir, a former scholar in geology department of Aligarh Muslim University was killed […]
Srinagar: The district administration Kupwara on Monday ordered closure of all educational institutions in the district amid fears of protests against the killing of top Hizbul Mujahideen commander Mannan Wani and his associate in a gunfight with government forces last week. Barring Karnah and Macchil, class work in all the schools and colleges in the […]
Srinagar: The district magistrate Anantnag on Monday slapped public safety act on a senior Tehreek e Hurriyat leader in the district. Sources said that Ashiq Hussain Narchoor, who was detained last month ahead of the ULB polls, was on Monday shifted to Hiranagar jail in Jammu after the PSA was slapped on him. Narchoor is […]
Read the full letter With deep concern, absolute dismay and unconditional solidarity with Kashmiri students studying at AMU, we the bonafide students of Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University), residents of Jammu and Kashmir, are aghast at the lodging ofFIR’s and invoking draconian laws like “Sedition” on the “Kashmiri students at AMU” for assembling at Kennedy […]
Srinagar: Er Rasheed MLA Langate was detained Sunday after he led a protest march in ‘solidarity’ with Kashmiri students in Aligarh Muslim University who were booked on sedition charges. The party spokesman in a statement said that despite police restrictions hundreds joined AIP’s march in Srinagar in solidarity with students of Aligarh Muslim University, who […]
Srinagar: The Kashmir students studying in the Aligarh Muslim University have written a letter to the Vice Chancellor of the varsity rejecting the allegations of any prayer meeting in the varsity in memory of the university’s former scholar Mannan Wani. The students have termed the allegations of university as baseless and fabricated to vitiate the […]
Srinagar: Situation turned tense in circuit house Srinagar after Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) leader, Ashok Bhat, abused Personal security officers (PSO’s) of colleagues and accused them of being Jehadis and militants. Bhat is contesting municipal polls and is currently camping at circuit house Srinagar. According to the witnesses, the PSO of BJP leader, Darkshan Andrabi […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir has achieved cent percent coverage under Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen (SBMG) with the construction of 11.11 lakh individual household latrines in a span of four years. This information was given at the State Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) meeting for solid waste management under Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen (SBMG) convened under the […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir government on Saturday revealed the final figures of the third phase of ongoing municipal elections. An official spokesperson said that Kashmir division recorded a voter turn out of 6.7% while Jammu division recorded a turnout of 68.4%. He put the final figures of the state at 41.9%. Giving a breakup […]
