Shopian: After forces fired pellet at 20 month old girl Hiba Nisar, leaving her right eye severely injured, the government on Friday announced Rupees one lakh for her treatment. The monetary assistance was announced by Deputy Commissioner (DC) Shopian Dr Owais Ahmed. DC assured Hiba’s parents that government would provide the baby girl with all […]
Two caves and one conclusion. Reality can’t be suppressed and truth can’t be obscured. As affirmed by caves, imaginary realities, hypothetical explanations, unfounded schemes and treacherous narratives should not to be trusted. Which caves and what allegory, one would like to question. Well, I am juxtaposing two caves: one is a parable, written in […]
Srinagar: Pakistan Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry Friday advised the government of India to accept that the Kashmir issue has no military solution. Chaudhry was addressing a seminar of the All Parties Parliamentary Kashmir Group in Islamabad. “[Indian Prime Minister] Narendra Modi just announced that [his government] will give a package of billions of rupees to […]
Srinagar: Reacting to the statement of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan that if France and Germany can stay together why not India and Pakistan, Army Chief General Bipin Rawat said that for Pakistan to stay together with India, it will first have to become a secular state. General Rawat made the statement while interacting with […]
Srinagar: 37 militants have been killed in gunfights with government forces across Kashmir in the month of November making it the bloodiest month of this year for the militants. The slain militants include top nine commanders. As per official figures, 227 militants have been killed in different parts of Kashmir so far this year. While they […]
New Delhi: The Election Commission, which has to hold fresh assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir before May 21 next, is likely to club it with the Lok Sabha elections due next year, highly-placed sources in the poll panel said Thursday. The state assembly was dissolved by Governor Satya Pal Malik on November 21 citing […]
Srinagar: Kashmir recorded over 19 per cent polling while Jammu registered more than 61 per cent voting till noon in the fifth phase of the Jammu and Kashmir panchayat elections Thursday, officials said. The polling began at 8 am and ended at 2 pm in 2,512 polling stations, including 1,743 stations in Jammu division and […]
Srinagar: Former Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik who was in Kashmir recently, has said that he told the Kashmiri separatist groups who he met during his visit that he does not share their views and that they must work through peaceful methods to resolve the Kashmir issue. Speaking to The Indian Express Bondevik, who […]
Srinagar: Indian Army Chief General Bipin Rawat has said that the tolerance levels of the people in Kashmir have “reduced and perceived alienation” as the youth in the region is being “indoctrinated to act irrationally.” “In recent times, the tolerance levels of the public in Kashmir have reduced and perceived alienation is indicative of a definitive aspirational deficit amongst the local youth. The Kashmiri youth […]
Srinagar: Two Hizb-ul-Mujahideen militants have been killed in a gunfight with government forces in Khrew area of south Kashmir in Pulwama district Thursday morning. A police official said that a pre-dawn cordon and search operation was launched jointly by Jammu and Kashmir police, army and paramilitary forces following “credible” inputs about the presence of militants in Sharshali area […]
