Srinagar: China will not pick sides in the India-Pakistan dispute as its primary aim is to develop the “poor and backward” Kashmir, a state media opinion piece has said, adding that Beijing is willing to be the mediator to defuse tensions between New Delhi and Islamabad. The editorial of state-owned Global Times dismissed India’s concerns […]
Washington: The United States issued a travel advisory for its citizens visiting India due to increased risk of ‘terrorism’ in Jammu and Kashmir and the prevailing tension in the country, an official statement said. “US issues Level 2 travel alert for India — “exercise increased caution,” warning Americans to not visit most of Jammu and […]
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Thursday said that the continuous harassment of Kashmiris in mainland India is forcing people to think if the “two nation theory” was right. “Kashmiri boys and girls are being harassed under a well thought out conspiracy. The situation is so horrendous that the people are compelled to […]
Srinagar: Alarmed by the killing of 44 people CRPF men in Kashmir, United Kingdom’s Labour party leader, Jeremy Corbyn has said that he will work towards the negotiations and a political resolution. “I’m alarmed by the violence that killed 44 people in Kashmir. @UKLabour sends condolences to families who lost loved ones. We stand with the […]
New Delhi: NTPC (National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd) NTPC has decided to cut 940 Megawatts of electricity to Jammu and Kashmir from February due to the non-payment of the dues to the Corporation by the government. The NTPC stated that for more than two years now the payment from J&K has been irregular and as […]
The January 3 Indian Express article “Paradox in the Valley,” co-authored by two young intellectually empowered Harvardians from Kashmir, was the opening act of what happened a little more than a week after it appeared. Ever since, Dr Shah Faesal’s resignation from the coveted civil services in the second week of the New Year […]
Srinagar:Kashmiri journalists on Saturday boycotted the Republic Day of India functions in Srinagar after some senior scribes were stopped by the security forces to cover the function at Sher-i-Kashmir stadium. A senior photojournalist told Kashmir Reader that the security men outside the stadium told some senior journalists that they cannot cover the function. “The official […]
Srinagar: Government has announced to confer meritorious public service award to controversial Principal SKIMS Medical College Bemina Dr Reyaz Untoom, who had allegedly violated the official rules, and gave 10 year age relaxation so as to make way for his wife to get appointed as a lecturer in the SKIMS College Bemina. An official handout […]
Srinagar: The National Conference (NC) is ready to take the former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader and legislator, Altaf Bukhari, into the party, but with a pre-condition that he should contest polls from Hazratbal constituency, party sources revealed to The Kashmir Press. “Both the sides want to embrace each other,” party sources said. “We want […]
Srinagar: In a shocking revelation, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), President, Mehbooba Mufti has claimed that certain “turncoats” are telling Delhi to constitute the notorious Ikhwan (pro-government militia active in mid 1990’s-2000’s) so that they can be used both “politically and to tackle the situation” in Kashmir. “There are certain turncoats, I don’t want to name […]
