Srinagar: Days after India cancelled talks between External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and her Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Pakistan has taken up the Kashmir issue with United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres. According to a report in Pakistan-based Geo News, Pakistani foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi told the UN Secretary General that the Kashmir […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir police on Friday said that it has arrested the mastermind behind the posters which were being used to issue threats to the Special Police Officers, political workers and other Police Officers. A police spokesperson in a statement said that on a tip off the police with the assistance of Army’s […]
Srinagar: For the first time, primary health centres, primary schools and anganwadi centres in Jammu and Kashmir will come under the administrative control of the panchayats when elections to the local body will be completed next month, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said Friday. The home minister said powers for ‘own fund generation’ like collection of […]
Srinagar: In the backdrop of a major anti-infiltration system being operationalised along the India-Pakistan border earlier this month, more high-tech equipment for border surveillance, perimeter security and counter-militancy operations have been developed for deployment in Kashmir and the borders with Pakistan and China. The equipment are also aimed to not only reduce infiltration and intrusions, […]
NEW DELHI: The central government on Wednesday decided to transfer the incomplete hotel project, Gulmarg Ashok, to Jammu & Kashmir Government as part of its disinvestment policy. “In continuation of Centre’s disinvestment policy, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs CCEA), chaired by the Prime Minister has approved transfer of incomplete project of Hotel Gulmarg […]
Srinagar: The slain militants killed in a gunfight with government forces have been identified as Irfan Ahmad Dar and Shiraz Ahmad, both locals. Irfan hails from Nihama village of Pulwama district while Shiraz hails from Chadoora village of Budgam district. Both were associated with Hizb-ul-Mujahideen. Irfan was a former SPO who fled with an AK-47 […]
Srinagar: More than thirty people have suffered injuries during clashes in Central Kashmir’s Budgam and Srinagar district on Thursday. Sources said that clashes erupted in Srinagar after a civilian was killed by government forces in his house at Noorbagh area. They said that forces resorted to massive teargas shelling and pellet firing on mourners who […]
Srinagar: Two militants have been killed in the ongoing gunfight between militants and government forces in central Kashmir’s Budgam district. Reports said that the dead bodies of two militant shave been recovered from the site of the encounter. “The search operation is still on,” they said. Reports said that that the gunfight broke out early Thursday […]
Srinagar: India has raised objections over Pakistan raising Kashmir issue at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting, saying it is completely “unwarranted” for the grouping as well as its member countries to discuss matters related to India’s internal affairs in any multi-organisation set up. Pakistan raised the Kashmir issue at the OIC Contact Group […]
Srinagar: The joint resistance leadership on Thursday called for a complete shutdown on against the killing of a civilian by government forces in Noorbagh Srinagar. Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in a tweet said that JRL asks people to protest by observing a complete hartal tomorrow Friday September 28 against the continued gruesome and barbaric killing of […]
