By Abid Bashir Srinagar: Campaigning, which remained by and large peaceful despite threat perception, came to an end on Tuesday evening in Srinagar Parliamentary constituency, which is going to polls on April 18 in the second phase of Lok Sabha elections. National Conference (NC) president Dr Farooq Abdullah is seeking re-election from the constituency, which […]
Srinagar: Scores of family members of Central Jail Srinagar inmates held a protest demonstration on Tuesday urging the authorities that the jail should not be turned into Guantanamo. Reiterating that the jail was not safe for the prisoners, they said that they have been subjected to trauma for lack of access to the jail. Violent protests […]
Srinagar: A sub district magistrate was on Tuesday thrashed by Army and his official vehicle was also damaged while he was on his way to Qazigund. Reports said that the SDM was stopped by the Army near Ujroo. They claimed that SDM Duroo had an argument with the Army officer. Army officer allegedly manhandled the SDM and damaged his […]
Srinagar: The prisoners at central jail Srinagar have started a hunger strike to press for their demands including withdrawal of FIR against them in connection with a recent incident inside the prison. Official sources saidthat inmates started the hunger strike from 8:15 am today and their demands include the transfer of jail Superintendent and that […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir Crime branch has started probe into the serious corruption and bungling charges faced by the Tyndale Biscoe School and Mallinson Society. In its report submitted to the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM), the Crime branch has stated that the department has received the complain of mismanagement and misappropriation of […]
Srinagar: Finance Minister of India Arun Jaitley Monday said that BJP had supported PDP in ‘good faith’, however they remained in the ‘clutches of the Jammat-e-Islami’s agenda.’ In a series of tweets, Jaitley once again blamed the Congress for the problems in Kashmir. “The NDA supported in good faith a regime of the mainstream party in […]
Srinagar: Civilian protesters on Monday pelted stones on former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti’s cavalcade in Sirhama village of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district. Reports said Mufti was heading towards Bijbehara to attend a workers’ convention after paying obeisance at Khiram shrine when her cavalcade came under a barrage of stones. However, the PDP president […]
Srinagar: National Conference (NC) President Farooq Abdullah on Sunday said that Prime minsiter Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah are the biggest enemies of people who believe in dividing the nation on basis of caste, creed and religion saying that people have made it a point not to fall prey to the divisive agenda […]
Srinagar: The outgoing Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that Jammu and Kashmir was an integral part of India and that no one would be allowed to demand for a separate prime minister for the state. “Pakistan was also saying that we have nuclear weapons. But everyone knows what we did. We will never […]
Srinagar: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president and former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday said that PDP is the only party which has the agenda for resolution of Kashmir issue through dialogue. She regretted that Prime Minister Modi didn’t follow the footprints of Bhartiya Janta Partys’s first Prime Minister late Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Kashmir […]
