Six months after his funeral, man returns home in Poonch
DC orders exhumation, constitution of doctors’ team for DNA profiling
Poonch: It may sound bizarre but that is exactly what has happened in Mendhar area of Poonch district in Jammu and Kashmir. A youth presumed dead nearly six months ago walked back home on Friday. Muhammad Muzamil went missing from his home in Qasab village in Mendhar area six months ago. Soon there was an […]
Search operation conducted in Rajouri
Jammu: A joint team of police and Army conducted a massive search operation in Rajouri town and some adjoining areas on Thursday after receiving reports of suspicious movement. The operation was conducted in Rajouri’s Bela colony and Kallar village and areas on the outskirts of the border town, senior superintendent of police YougalManhas said. Police […]
Governor’s intervention gets Baramulla family’s house illuminated
Have provided temporary lighting, working on permanent arrangement: CE PDD
SRINAGAR: Courtesy intervention of the Governor, Satya Pal Malik, an underprivileged family in a remote area of district Baramulla today got electricity to their house for the first time. “We are thankful to the Governor Sahab for his kind intervention to get our house electrified temporarily through a genset and LED bulbs,” said Anees Khawaja, […]
Omar takes dig at Kathua family’s lawyer after her ‘gene’ comment
Srinagar: Reacting to a remark by Kathua rape and murder case lawyer Deepika Rajawat after she blamed the victim’s family and said “human tendency which travels in genes,” former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah said that he is no more in support of the lawyer after the “snide remark about the genes” […]
SHRC issues notices to private schools
Seeks details of admission procedure, quota for poor
Srinagar: Chairman State Human Rights Commission (rtd) Justice Bilal Nazki has issued notices to almost all leading private schools of Kashmir asking them to file the detailed compliance report before the commission within two weeks as to what procedure they are following during the admission process and whether poor and downtrodden are given their due […]
Police officer among seven cops injured in Keran mishap
DySP shifted to AIIMS: Police
Srinagar: Seven policemen including a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) were injured and a wireless equipment was damaged after a vehicle they were travelling in turned turtle in Keran area along the Line of Control in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Thursday late evening, police said Friday. A police official said that the vehicle (Sumo-7831) […]
Bar to skip work in courts today
Srinagar: Kashmir High Court Bar Association on Friday supported the Joint Resistance Leadership’s call for a valley wide shutdown on November 17 as nine-phased election to Panchayats in the state commences. According to a statement the lawyers body said that in view o the general strike call given by the JRL, the bar association has […]
Citing ‘health grounds, BJP’s Leh MP resigns
New Delhi: BJP MP ThupstanChhewang, who represents Ladakh in the Lok Sabha, has resigned from the House and also the party, its Jammu and Kashmir unit president Ravinder Raina said. Chhewang, 71, has resigned to pursue a “spiritual life” and had also been suffering from health issues, Raina told PTI, insisting that his resignation is […]
Oppression strengthening our resolve: Malik
Srinagar: Condemning the ‘unrelenting oppression unleashed’ by forces throughout Kashmir, Chairman of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Muhammad Yasin Malik on Friday said that their resolve to achieve freedom and right to self-determination gets strengthen by the oppression. “Innocent killings, oppression and suppression, spree of arrests and other acts of tyranny have turned Kashmir into […]
Martial law imposed on political leaders, activists: Sehrai
Srinagar: Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Chairman, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai on Friday lashed out on authorities for slapping another PSA (3rd) on Mohammad Amin Ahengar of Shopian and AbdulAhadTeli of GundKohruLanget and bundled them to Hiranagar and KotBalwal jails. In a statement issued here, Sehrai said that “human rights violations is at its peak and Kashmiris are facing the […]
