The Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) has called for complete shutdown on Sunday to protest what it described as “brutal” civilian killing in Kashmir. Strongly condemning the killing of young Aadil Ahmad by a police vehicle which mercilessly mowed him down near Noorbagh in Qamarwari JRL said that unaccountability for their crimes has made the forces […]
The Kashmir University is witnessing protests after an Assistant professor, Doctor Muhammad Raafi Bhat has gone missing since Friday afternoon. Raafi, a contractual lecturer, was working in the sociology department of the Kashmir University from past two years. On Saturday morning, students and the family members approached the proctor of the university and sought university’s […]
Director General of Police (DGP) Dr S P Vaid Friday said that police department has not the manpower available required for providing security to all ex-panchs, sarpanchs and protected persons numbering around forty thousand across the state. Talking to a local news gathering agency Kashmir News Service (KNS), Vaid said it is not humanly possible […]
Is the dog population in Srinagar really decreasing? The Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) says “yes” and backs it with the numerical data. In a meeting convened by the Deputy Commissioner Srinagar, Dr Syed Abid Rasheed Shah on Friday, to address the issues pertaining to stray dog menace in Srinagar city, the chief sanitation officer […]
Hurriyat (M) Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Friday said that joint resistance leadership (JRL) was looking at measures to deal with repressive situation prevailing in Kashmir. “JRL has recently met and deliberated and is looking at measures to deal with the repressive situation,” Mirwaiz said while addressing the Friday congregational gathering at the historic Jamia […]
JRL or Joint Resistance Leadership Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik have condmened the killing of three youth from old town Baramulla. In a statement, the JRL stated that time and again people are being killed in mysterious circumstances and no one knows who have orchestrated the killings. “While the state […]
The government Tuesday imposed unannounced restritrictions in parts of the summer capital Srinagar while as life came to a halt across Kashmir to protest the killing of a civilian in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. The restrictions were imposed in old city areas of Rainawari, Khanyar, Nowhatta, M.R.Gunj and Safa Kadal. Partial restrictions also remained in […]
Four Jaish militants, one policeman and an Army trooper were Tuesday killed during a gun battle that broke out between the militants and the government forces in Laam Aripal village of Tral area in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district, the police said. The police said four Jaish militants include top Jaish commander, Omar Khalid and his accomplices Ashfaq Ahmad […]
In a major decision, the state cabinet approved the implementation of 7th pay commission recommendations for state government employees and pensioners with effect from January 2016. The decision was taken during a cabinet meet convened by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti. The decision would benefit around five lakh employees and pensioners in the state. The […]
With the voices getting louder for the revocation of Armed Forces Special Power Act (AFSPA) in Jammu and Kashmir, the Ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Tuesday said that though the act must go but maintained that situation was not conducive to withdraw the act. The AFSPA is in vogue in Jammu and Kashmir since […]
