As weather improves in Kashmir, night temperature drops
Srinagar: A significant drop in night temperature was recorded in many places of Kashmir, while the summer capital Srinagar saw the minimum temperature hovering around freezing point, a MeT department official said Wednesday. The minimum temperature settled at minus 0.3 degrees Celsius in Srinagar Tuesday night, he said. Qazigund the gateway town to the Valley […]
Three LeT militants killed in Baramulla gunfight
Srinagar: Three Lashkar-e-Toiba militants were killed in a gunfight with government forces at Binner village of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Wednesday. Reports said that a heavy contingent of army and SOG cordoned off the area on Wednesday afternoon. Official sources said that a joint team of army’s 4 PARA Commandos, 46 RR, SOG and […]
Six militants killed in twin encounters laid to rest
Shopian/Pulwama: The six militants killed in two separate encounters in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district and Shirmal village of Shopian district in South Kashmir were laid to rest Wednesday after multiple funeral prayers for the slain with thousands of people participating in the funeral prayers. Witnesses said that the people assembled in Dragad, Shirmal, Chillipora and […]
Flawed notification renders professionals ‘ineligible’ for recruitment
Srinagar: In a bizarre move, the authorities in Health and Medical Education Department have advertised flawed recruitment notice for the appointment of library assistants in the new government medical colleges. The recruitment has pocketed criticism from different quarters as it has sidelined the professionals while making less qualified youth eligible for the posts. As per […]
Shah Faesal announces campaign for ‘clean politics’ in Kashmir
Resorts to crowd funding to raise political party
Srinagar: Former IAS officer Shah Faesal Wednesday launched a crowd funding campaign for “clean politics and corruption-free administration” in Jammu and Kashmir. The 2010-batch topper of the UPSC civil services exam said it was a people’s movement for change. “Be a part of this journey for clean politics and corruption-free administration in J&K. Support Shah […]
GMC forms committee to frame SOPs for referrals from peripheries
Srinagar: While much has been talked about the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), the Government Medical College (GMC) is now framing the same ‘afresh’ for referrals in GMC and Associated Hospitals from peripheries. Insiders told ‘Kashmir Vision’ that a three member committee has been formed which has been tasked to frame the SOPs within two days. […]
Mumbai attack case: Pak court temporarily halts hearing
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani court has temporarily halted the hearing of the 2008 Mumbai attack case to let the prosecutor produce more witnesses. Ten Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants had sailed into Mumbai from Karachi and carried out coordinated attacks, killing 166 people and injuring over 300 in November 2008. The trial, underway in an anti-terrorism court in […]
Militant recruitment in these villages witnessed after two decades
Twin back to back encounters left all three militants dead
Pulwama/Shopian: The three villages in twin districts of South Kashmir witnessed no militant recruitment from past two decades. However, after a lapse of nearly 25 years, one each from LassiporaPulwama, Chiddipora and Shirmal villages of Shopian joined the militant ranks. The youth from the villages who had joined militant ranks were killed in separate encounters […]
Hindu woman-Muslim man marriage not ‘regular or valid’: SC
Says child born out of the relationship is legitimate
New Delhi: A marriage of a Hindu woman with a Muslim man is not a “regular or valid” but the child born out of such wedlock is legitimate, the Supreme Court has held. It also said that the legal effect of such an irregular marriage is that a wife is entitled to get dower but […]
Finally Priyanka Gandhi takes a plunge, joins active politics
NEW DELHI: Ending years of speculation, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra formally entered politics on Wednesday with the Congress appointing her general secretary for Uttar Pradesh East in a move reflecting the party’s intent to go full throttle in the state ahead of the general elections. She will take over her new assignment in the politically crucial […]
