Srinagar: Three militants and an army soldier were killed in a week-long operation at Danna forest area of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district. Official sources said that a joint team of army’s 31 RR and 27 RR had launched a cordon-and-search operation at in the woods of Chaan Daji and Dani Behak area since last one week. […]
Poonch: Five persons were arrested for raising pro-freedom slogans during a protest demonstration, seeking protection of Article 35A, at Mendhar in the border district of Poonch. SSP Poonch, Rajiv Panday said that five persons have been arrested including one from Shopian district namely Waseem Ahmad Thoker and according to him he was leading the protests. […]
Srinagar: Instead of putting their house in order, the HDFC bank has threanted the Kashmir Press with legal action for carrying out the stories which have exposed the rot in the bank. In a written rejoinder to the Kashmir press story titled, “Ex- HDFC bank manager spill the beans, says bank runs like “Sicilian […]
Srinagar: Militants have released all the family members of policemen, who were kidnapped by them at various places in south Kashmir on Thursday night. The kidnapping spree by militants had come just a day after police arrested several dozen people, including father of two militant commanders Riyaz Naikoo and Lateef tiger, from south Kashmir. Naikoo’s […]
Srinagar: The State Administrative Council (SAC) on Friday has set schedule for four-phase Municipal elections and eight-phase Panchayat polls between October to December. The SAC met under the chairmanship of Governor Satya Pal Malik, an official spokesperson said. After extensive deliberations on various aspects and feedback received from the Department of Housing & Urban Development, […]
Srinagar: No Friday prayers were allowed in the historic Jamia Masjid in downtown Srinagar, where curfew-like restrictions remained imposed for the second day in view of strike called by separatists against alleged attempts being made to abrogate Article 35-A. Official sources told UNI that restrictions under Section 144 of CrPc has been imposed within the […]
Srinagar: Former Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) ideologue from Jammu, Professor Hari Om, has said that adjournment of hearing of “Islamist 35 A” was a gruesome murder of judicary. The supreme court today deffered the hearing on article 35 A till January next year. “Adjournments on the basis of threats & spurious pleas is subversion of […]
Srinagar: Strike and curfew-like restrictions brought life to a grinding halt in Kashmir for the second successive day. In downtown and parts of civil lines in the summer capital, Srinagar the authorities imposed restrictions as a “precautionary measure” to prevent any untoward incident following a strike called by resistance leadership against any move to […]
Srinagar: In what seems to be a tit for tat reaction, family members of 10 policemen, including some officers, have been kidnapped after militants raided the residences of various cops in south Kashmir on Thursday night. The development took place after police arrested relatives of militants including father of popular militant commander Riyaz Naiko among eight […]
Srinagar: It seems bizarre, but it is true. The Jammu and Kashmir bank has donated hefty 11.50 crore for the Kerala flood releif while it contributed just Rs 5 crore for the victims of devastating Kashmir floods of the year 2014. Even as the magnitude of the infrastructural destruction including both to the businesses […]
