Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference (M) chairperson Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Wednesday said the people of Jammu and Kashmir will forcefully “resist every challenge by New Delhi” to change the demography of Jammu and Kashmir by rolling back the hereditary state subject laws of 1927 being contested by its agents. “Article 35A hearing scheduled for today and tomorrow in the […]
Srinagar: Governor Satya Pal Malik has issued directions to the Divisional Commissioners of Kashmir, Jammu and Ladakh and all the Deputy Commissioners for expeditiously addressing the hardships being faced by people, caused due to heavy snowfall and rains in the past few days. Governor has asked the Deputy Commissioners to personally review and ensure prompt and […]
Srinagar: The Kashmir Economic Alliance on Wednesday said that fiddling with Article 35-A will trigger a catastrophe not just in Kashmir but entire South Asia. In a statement, Kashmir Economic Alliance (KEA) chairman Muhammad Yasin Khan said the hearing on sensitive Artcile 35A has heightened tensions in the Kashmir as the people are apprehensive of […]
Washington: A top US commander has advocated sustained American engagement with Sri Lanka despite the political and ethnic turmoil in the island nation posing a challenge to bilateral ties, amid increasing Chinese influence in the strategically important Indo-Pacific region. US Indo-Pacific Command chief Adm Philips Davidson told the Senate’s Armed Services Committee during a Congressional […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association Wednesday expressed grief over the demise of Mufti Bashir-ud-din, elder brother of Mufti Mehraj-ud-din, Advocate, the Grand Mufti of Kashmir, who expired on Tuesday at SKIMS Soura, Srinagar where he had been admitted for treatment. In a statement, a spokesperson of Bar said that late Mufti Bashir […]
Srinagar: Around 36,000 people were killed in road accidents across Pakistan last year. The Motorway police are making all efforts to check such deaths by ensuring adherence to traffic laws by road users, said SSP Asghar Ali Yousafzai, Dawn reported. The SSP said the statistics showed that road accidents claimed 1.2 million lives worldwide every year […]
Srinagar: A minor girl was killed in a road accident in northern Kashmir’s Baramulla district Wednesday morning. Witnesses said that a passenger vehicle bearing registration number JK09-8170 on way to Kupwara from Srinagar slipped down the road near Zangam Petrol Pump. A 12-year-old girl identified as Urban Ahad, daughter of Ab Ahad Sofi, a resident of […]
Srinagar: There was a break from the continuing cold wave conditions on Wednesday in Jammu and Kashmir following overcast skies in the valley and forecast of another spell of rain and snow later and on Thursday. “Rain in plains and snowfall in mountains is likely to occur today and tomorrow,” an official of the Met […]
New Delhi: The government has asked struggling state-owned telecommunication company BSNL to look at all options, from a revival plan to disinvestment and even closure, as it looks to tackle the bleeding at India’s largest loss-making PSU. The direction to the company – which had accumulated losses of Rs 31,287 crore at the end of […]
Srinagar: Members of the Uighur Muslim ethnic group have called on China to post videos of their relatives who have disappeared into a “vast system of internment camps”. The social media campaign, launched early Tuesday under the hashtag #MeTooUyghur, follows the release of a Chinese state media video showing famed Uighur musician Abdurehim Heyit, who […]
