JRL calls for shutdown today against arrest spree
Srinagar: Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) Saturday called for a complete shutdown on Sunday to protest against ‘arbitrary’ mass arrests, nocturnal raids, insecurity among people due to ‘state repression’, killings and censorship and any tampering with 35A. JRL comprising Syed Ali Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq as per a statement issued here, said “arbitrary arrest of […]
BSF to take command, replace CRPF at various locations
Srinagar: Hours after the central government ordered the deployment of 100 more companies of central armed forces in Jammu and Kashmir, J&K police on Saturday issued an order replacing the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) with the Border Security Force (BSF) and Indo-Tibetan Border Force (ITBF) for static guard duties in Srinagar. An order issued […]
India invited as ‘Guest of Honour’ to OIC meet
Union Minister for external affairs Sushma Swaraj to attend
New Delhi: In a significant move, India has been invited to the inaugural plenary of the foreign ministers’ conclave of the OIC, a powerful grouping of Muslim majority nations, and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will attend it in Abu Dhabi next month as the ‘guest of honour’. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) called […]
Rumours ran amok on Saturday, create panic among people
Srinagar: It was a rumor filled day on Saturday as people in most areas of Srinagar city and other areas were seen running in panic and trying to understand the situation that has led to the panic all around. Mainly it was the additional deployments of central forces and subsequent crackdown on leaders from separatist […]
SC provided some relief
Days after hundreds and thousands of Kashmiri students were forced to leave various colleges and Universities across India in wake of the backlashes following the attack on a CRPF convoy on February 14 in Kashmir that led to killing of nearly 49 troopers, the Supreme Court has directed chief secretaries and DGPs of states and […]
Three Kashmiri students booked in UP for ‘social media comments’
Bareilly (UP): Three Kashmiri girl students of the Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI) have been booked for allegedly forwarding controversial comments, along with their own remarks, against the Indian Army on an instant messaging app following the pulwama terror strike, police said here Saturday. According to an official, after the deadly Pulwama attack on February […]
NC activists protest against harassment of Kashmiris outside valley
Srinagar: National Conference Saturday took out a protest march here against the intimidation and harassment of the people of Kashmir outside the valley and demanded such attacks be immediately stopped. Scores of NC activists, led by party general secretary Ali Mohammad Sagar, assembled at the party headquarters ‘Nawai-Subah’ here and took out a protest march. […]
