Senior Congress leader terms ULB elections in Kashmir as ‘sham’
Says present govt in Delhi wants graveyard like silence in Kashmir
Srinagar: Former Union Minister and senior Congress leader, Prof.SaifuddinSoz on Saturday termed the recently held Urban Local Bodies (ULB) elections in Jammu and Kashmir a ‘sham’. “The Home Minister, Rajnath Singh statement that Government of India wants peace in Kashmir and spends lot of money on fighting terrorism is not palatable as the facts on […]
Malik released from jail
Srinagar: Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Muhammad Yasin Malik and zonal president Noor Muhammad Kalwal were released from police custody on Saturday, a JKLF spokesman said on Saturday. Malik was arrested on October 02 while as Noor Muhammad Kalwal was arrested on 09th October. Both were lodged at police station Kothi-bagh and […]
Farooq, Omar grieved over Amritsar mishap
Srinagar: National Conference President Farooq Abdullah and Vice President Omar Abdullah have expressed profound grief and sorrow over the loss of lives in a tragic train accident near Amritsar in Punjab. Expressing solidarity with the bereaved families, both leaders prayed for peace to the departed souls and for strength to the families to bear the […]
Three drug peddlers held
Jammu: Three drug peddlers were arrested in separate operations in Samba and Kathua districts of Jammu and Kashmir Saturday, police said. Jagseer Singh, a resident of Barnal village in Punjab, was arrested with one kilogram of poppy straw from Teli Basti area of Bari Brahmana in Samba district, a police spokesman said. He said a […]
Hizb distances itself from threatening FB posts
Srinagar: Militant outfit Hizbul Mujhadeen has distanced itself from the threatening facebook posts about several locals of Hajin Bandipora saying that these people are being threatened by security agencies. A few days back, number of posts attributed to militant outfit Hizbul Mujhadeen about some people of Hajin had gone viral and these people were being […]
KU to hold two day National Urdu Congress from Oct 24
SRINAGAR: A two- day National Urdu Congress under the theme “Language, Literature & Society” organised by Department of Urdu, University of Kashmir is to begin from Wednesday, 24th October 2018. According to the organisers the purpose of the Urdu Congress is to bring the stakeholders of Urdu Language together on a common platform for dialogue, […]
Fishing costs a youth his life
Srinagar: An 18-year old youth drowned while fishing in a pond constructed by Irrigation department at Chandigam area of Lolab in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district, police said Saturday. The youth identified as Shaheen Ahmad Mir (18) son of Abdul Rashid Mir, is a resident of Chandigam, Lolab. Shaheen slipped and drowned in the Irrigation storage […]
Pulwama encounter: 2 army men injured, militants believed to have escaped
Srinagar: Two army men were injured in a brief gunfight with government forces that raged in Pathan village of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Saturday evening. Reports are saying that due to darkness and stone pelting, militants are believed to have escaped from the spot. Reports said that a joint team of army’s 55RR, SOG […]
NIA arrests absconder in 2016 Nagrota army camp attack case
New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency has arrested a man wanted in the 2016 attack on an army camp in Jammu’s Nagrota when he was allegedly trying to flee the country through Sri Lanka, officials said Saturday. Ashraf Khandey, a resident of Pulwama in south Kashmir, was taken into custody from the Indira Gandhi International […]
Retired army colonel duped of Rs 3 crore
New Delhi: A retired army colonel has filed a complaint with the Delhi Police’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW) after he was allegedly duped of more than Rs 3 crore on the pretext of investing in insurance policies, police said Saturday. Based on the complaint, a case was registered against two men on October 18. In […]
