Srinagar: Ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national general secretary Ram Madhav Wednesday said they have asked the Election Commission of India (ECI) to hold the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir at the earliest. Madhav lashed out the two main regional parties of the state – National Conference (NC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)- saying that […]
Srinagar: Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e- Mohammed (JeM) recruited the most number of locals from Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama both in 2018 and in 2019, according to a report prepared by security agencies and shared with the Prime Minister’s office, among others. Forty Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) men were killed in Pulwama on February 14 when […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah on Tuesday asserted that what good was achieved in his stint as chief minister was put into an abyss by the former PDP-BJP coalition government in the state saying that the state of affairs of the country too bore the brunt of the imprudent policies […]
Srinagar: Reiterating that muscular policies will only prove counterproductive in tackling the present crises in Jammu and Kashmir, former Chief Minister and President Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mehbooba Mufti said on Tuesday that if her party comes to power, it will scrap the ban imposed by the government on JKLF and Jamaat-e-Islami. Addressing the workers […]
Baramulla: After People’s Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti, National Conference senior leader Ali Mohammad Sagar on Tuesday said that his party was the original “Mujahideen party” of Kashmir. He was addressing a public gathering in Baramulla. Sagar said that party contribution towards Kahsmir valley was known to all and “our candidates will lead on every seat […]
Srinagar: Pakistan on Tuesday announced that the government has ended the requirement of a no-objection certificate (NOC) for foreigners seeking to visit certain parts of Pakistan in Pakistan Administered Kashmir. “Another landmark achieved. NOC regime for foreigners comes to an end,” Geo News quoted information minister Chaudry Fawad Hussain. It is Prime Minister Imran Khan’s vision to […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir High Court (HC) has issued a notice to Union Home Ministry (UHM) on a petition challenging the ban on Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) in the state. The court has asked the UHM to reply by April 22 to the petition filed by one Mehraj Azeem, a resident of Srinagar, through his counsel Syed […]
Srinagar: Following the Kartarpur Corridor – a project that connects Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan’s Narowal district with Dera Baba Nanak in India’s Gurdaspur District – Islamabad on Monday gave a green single to open Sharda Temple Corridor in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) for Hindu pilgrims, particularly in the neighbouring country. According to Express News, […]
Srinagar: Pakistan has deployed the Chinese-made medium-range air defence missiles in several cities and military bases to prevent possible new strikes by the Indian Air Force (IAF), The News International reported. The development took place in the wake of IAF intrusion inside Pakistani in February. On Saturday, Pakistani President Arif Alvi “chastised” India for having […]
Srinagar: India has witnessed 134 internet shutdowns in 2018 alone and more than 100 in 2016-17 with most of these blackouts happening in Kashmir region aimed to control the spread of rumours, misinformation and restore law and order. However, according to a study at the Stanford University titled, “Of Blackouts and Bandhs: The Strategy and […]
