Srinagar: A college teacher was suspended here for a Facebook post over the February 14 suicide attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama that claimed the lives of 49 CRPF troopers. In her post on Thursday, Papri Banerjee, who works as an Assistant Professor of the English department at the city’s Icon Academy Junior College, condemned […]
Srinagar: Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Baseer Ahmad Khan today issued fresh avalanche warning in nine avalanche prone districts of Kashmir division. The warning has been issued for the avalanche prone areas in district Anantnag, Kulgam, Budgam, Baramulla, Kupwara, Bandipora, Ganderbal, Kargil and Leh of J&K state. As per the hand out, the Divisional Commissioner Kashmir has […]
Srinagar: Tehreek-e-Hurriyat (TeH) Chairman Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai has strongly condemned the arson, vandalism and brutal assault on Jammu Muslim community particularly on Kashmiris, and urged the authorities to take immediate measures to ensure the safety, so that minorities and especially Kashmiris in Jammu and outside valley aren’t intimidated or harassed. Sehraie called recent attacks perpetrated […]
JAMMU: A Major-rank Army officer was killed and a soldier suffered injuries today while defusing an improvised explosive device at Nowshera sector in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri, NDTV reported The officer is from the Corps of Engineers. The explosive had been planted by intruders from Pakistan about 1.5 kilometres inside the Line of Control, NDTV […]
Srinagar: Stating that the way the communalist elements created an atmosphere to intimidate the Muslims in Jammu and caused damage to them persons and their including various Masjids, Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) Kashmir has said the partial role played by the local police who instead of stopping this hooliganism and lawlessness, acted as spectators, is most condemnable. […]
Srinagar: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday reiterated that the governments of various states must ensure safety of people from various minority groups and Kashmiris, especially the students studying in different colleges and universities outside Valley. PDP General Secretary and former minister Abdul Haq Khan has appealed governments of various states to ensure that minorities […]
New Delhi: No sooner the resolution adopted at the all-party meeting convened by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh went viral of social network and television channels, the National Conference leader and former J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said he was ‘disappointed’. “Disappointed, the resolution did not include a call for calm. Reports of violence in […]
Srinagar: CPI (M) leader MY Tarigami Saturday called for a meaningful and credible dialogue process for addressing the “legitimate concerns” of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Tarigami, a former MLA from Kulgam constituency of south Kashmir, said the attack on a CRPF convoy at Lethpora in Pulwama on Thursday has shaken all those who are […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir Police has filed a charge sheet against five accused involved in a blast case in which 12 civilians had sustained injuries. A spokesman in a statement said that Police on Saturday presented charge sheet for a case FIR No 20/2018 registered at P/S Safapora before Session Court Ganderbal after obtaining […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Police on Saturday said they have spoken to their counterparts in Dehradun following reports of harassment of Kashmiri students there. “This refers to the circulation of news regarding the harassment of Kashmir based students in Dehradun. In this regard it is informed that the authorities from Jammu and Kashmir Police have […]
