Srinagar: At least nine persons including four Hurriyat activists were on Wednesday booked under Public Safety Act (PSA) and were shifted to Kotbalwal Jail in Jammu. Family sources said that nine persons who were arrested during nocturnal raids from past one month have been booked under PSA today. The persons who were booked today include […]
Srinagar: Rizwan Asad Pandit, a 29-year-old school principal who was killed in “police custody” on Tuesday, may have died due to “multiple injuries”, according to initial post-mortem findings. The findings reveal that Rizwan died because of “extravasation of blood” — the leakage of blood from a vessel into the surrounding tissues — caused by multiple injuries, […]
Srinagar: Three paramilitary CRPF men were killed Wednesday while another was injured in a fratricidal firing incident in Udhampur district of Jammu, officials said. The incident took place inside CRPF camp of 187 battalion headquarter at Battal area of Udhampur, Station House Officer (SHO) Udhampur Vijay Singh Choudhary said. He said that one of the […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir National Conference President Dr Farooq Abdullah on Wednesday while announcing the pre-poll alliance with the Indian National Congress said that Jammu and Udhampur parliamentary seats will be contested by Congress. “I will contest from Srinagar and there will be a friendly contest between NC and Congress in Anantnag and Baramulla,” he said, […]
Srinagar: The United States Human Rights reports for 2018 released last week as part of an annual exercise in which the US State Department submits its assessment of such rights as per the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international agreements to the U.S. Congress. The 2018 India report covers a range of issues […]
Srinagar: Kashmir valley is observing a complete shutdown on Wednesday against the “custodial killing” of a school teacher and Jama’at-e-Islami activist Rizwan Asad on Tuesday. The call for shutdown was issued by the Joint Resistance Leadership. Shops and other business establishments are shut in the capital city Srinagar while public transport is off the roads. […]
Srinagar: Faiza Begum, who along with her three minor children allegedly accompanied her husband on his return to Jammu and Kashmir from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) in 2012 under the rehabilitation scheme of former militants received five years’ imprisonment and a fine of Rs 20,000, reports Indian Express. Sheraz Ahmed, also known as Shakir, married […]
Srinagar: China on Tuesday assured Pakistan of firm support to protect its territorial integrity and dignity during a high-level bilateral strategic dialogue in Beijing. At this meeting, Islamabad had raised the “rapidly deteriorating” situation in Kashmir and called on New Delhi to relook its policies in the state. Speaking at a joint press conference with […]
Jammu: Hours after a school teacher Rizwan Asad Pandit was killed under the police custody at Cargo component Srinagar, former chief minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday raised finger at the functioning of the National Investigating Agency (NIA) in the state. “Youth in Kashmir is being pushed towards alienation and […]
Srinagar: The Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) on Tuesday condemned the custodial killing of 28-year-old school teacher Rizwan Asad Pandith of Awantipora who according to the leadership was arrested by the SOG and NIA a few days ago and has been “brutally killed” in custody at SOG camp Cargo today. Paying tributes to Rizwan and while expressing […]
