Peaceful conduct of Panchayat polls victory of democracy: Shafiq Mir
Says won’t allow any politics on Panchayats
Srinagar: Chairman of All Jammu and Kashmir Panchayat Conference (AJKPC), Shafiq Mir on Tuesday said that Panchayat polls in the State were conducted peacefully and culminated successfully, terming it as ‘victory of democracy’. In a statement issue here, Mir said that said that they will not allow any sort of politics on Panchayats, saying that […]
KU Law students stage protests, demand exams to be held in March
Srinagar: Students of Kashmir University’s law school on Tuesday staged a protest demonstration, demanding their final examinations be held in March instead of “rushing through it.” Reports said that students from 6th semester LLB including from supplementary shift assembled outside the office of varsity’s vice chancellor and staged a protest. The authorities are unnecessarily rushing […]
Jailed Bitta Karatey’s mother dies
Srinagar: The mother of jailed JKLF leader Farooq Ahmad Dar alias Bitta Karatey died on Tuesday after a brief illness at SKIMS Soura. She had suffered a stroke after which she was admitted at SKIMS where she breathed her last. Dar could not speak, or visit the family as he is lodged in Delhi’s Tihar […]
Jammu-Srinagar highway opens for traffic
Banihal: The traffic on Jammu-Srinagar National Highway resumed on Tuesday after day-long closure due to inclement weather, while the Mughal road and Srinagar-Leh highway remained closed for the second day owing to heavy snowfall in the high altitude areas of the state, officials said. The Jammu-Srinagar highway, the only all weather road linking Kashmir with […]
Mobile connectivity to reach far-off Gurez areas soon
Bandipora: To provide mobile connectivity to around a dozen habitation of remote Gurez valley for the first time, the district administration took a task to lay the cable through the Adit-1 tunnel of Kishenganga Hydro Electric Project (KHEP) that was the only option to provide connectivity to villages with difficult topography. On the directions of […]
Those waving ISIS flags are ‘Indian agents’: Lashkar-e-Taiba
Srinagar: Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) chief Mehmood Shah on Tuesday said those waving ISIS flags in Jammu and Kashmir are “Indian agents”. A spokesperson of LeT Dr Abdullah Ghaznavi in a statement quoted Shah as saying that those waving ISIS flags “have a vicious motive of sabotaging the indigenous freedom struggle of Kashmir by aligning it with fake […]
Int’l expert imparts training to farmers, officials on HD fruit plantation
SRINAGAR: An international expert of Wellant College; Netherland G. Van Dieren and a renowned researcher of High Density (HD) fruit plant cultivation today chaired a daylong session to impart training to the officers, field functionaries and farmers in the cultivation of HD fruit plants. Dieren delivered a detailed lecture on the modern techniques of pruning […]
LMD Anantnag charges Rs 1.18 lakh fine from booksellers, Pvt schools
ANANTNAG: Taking cognizance of public complaints regarding the Private Schools, Publishers and Booksellers for violation of Legal Metrology Act/Rules and Consumer Protection Act, 1987, its enforcement team headed by Assistant Controller conducted an inspection of some private educational institutions and Booksellers. During the course of the drive, the team seized some text books of […]
Congress pledges to defeat communal, divisive elements in J&K
Jammu: (PTI) Jammu and Kashmir Congress president G A Mir Monday vowed to defeat the communal and divisive forces” in the state who were creating an “atmosphere of discord”. “Congress will defeat the designs of communal and divisive forces creating atmosphere of discord and will not allow them to play with the emotions of people […]
Omar Abdullah condemns cop killings in Shopian
Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and National Conference Vice President Omar Abdullah on Tuesday condemned the killing of policemen in a militant attack in southern Shopian district. While deploring the killings, Omar said: “We have lost three of our brave cops while delivering their duties. I pay my heartfelt tributes to the three policemen […]
