Ensuring security a challenge
The upcoming parliamentary polls are a challenge for the administration in many ways. The volatile situation in Kashmir valley has been making this challenge all the more difficult for the authorities as security officials have reports and apprehensions about escalation in violence especially in south Kashmir and many areas in Srinagar. The situation is grave […]
Er Rasheed files nomination papers to test water in LS polls from Bla constituency
'Akbar Lone’s statement indicates that BJP-NC alliance is on cards'
Baramulla: Awami Itehaad Party (AIP) president and former MLA Langate, Engineer Abdul Rasheed Sheikh on Monday filed nomination papers for the upcoming parliamentary elections from Baramulla constituency. Er Rasheed after filing nomination papers at Baramulla accused National Conference (NC) of adopting ‘Hippocratic attitude’, asking the party to come clean on its alliance with Congress. Talking […]
ADC Tral meets officers
Kar Irshad Tral: Additional Deputy Commissioner Tral Shabir Ahmad Raina called upon two meetings of Officers in his office chambers at Revenue Complex Tral Monday The first meeting was called with the officers of Rural Development Department, R&B Department, PHE, PDD and Zonal Education officers of zone Tral and zone Lurgam. On the assurances given […]
Shopian villagers rue lack of basic facilities
Shopian: The inhabitants of Langandora Trenz village of South Kashmir’s Shopian district here have expressed resentment against the successive regimes for failing to ensure adequate basic facilities in their village. Inhabitants alleged that they have been neglected by the successive governments as the area lacks all the basic facilities. “The lack of roads, water supply […]
Three missing boys reunited with families, says police
Srinagar: Three boys, who had gone missing from Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, have been traced and reunited with their families, police said Monday. A report was lodged at Vilgam police station Sunday stating that three boys from neighbouring village of Dohama in Handwara area of the north Kashmir district were missing, a police […]
Election opens doors of prisons for Kashmiris: Geelani
Srinagar: Chairman Hurriyat Conference (G), Syed Ali Geelani Monday expressed concerns over the continued crackdown on pro-freedom leaders, their relatives, activists and youth. “The rhetoric of India being world’s largest democracy is mere hoax and deceit as its highhandedness and brutality, aggressive military and coercive measures have tarnished every fabric of democratic norm, if any, […]
Ban on JKLF is ‘authoritarian’, says Hurriyat (M)
Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference (M) Monday strongly condemned the mass crackdown and arrest of resistance leaders and activists, booking them under PSA and shifting them to outside jails, terming it as ‘a sheer political vendetta and totalitarian’. The amalgam in a statement issued here said that ban imposed on JKLF is ‘totally undemocratic and authoritarian’ in […]
Two injured as armed robbers looted petrol pump
Jammu: Two persons were injured after they were shot at by robbers who looted cash from a filling station on Jammu-Pathankot highway in Kathua district of Jammu division, police said Monday. Three bike-borne masked robbers reached a petrol pump at Seswan in Chadwal area of Rajbagh Saturday night and shot at and injured two workers […]
Int’l Conference on ‘Silk-Route’ begins at KU
Srinagar: A two -day International Conference on ‘Silk Route-Historical and Contemporary Relevance’ organized by Centre of Central Asian Studies (CCAS), University of Kashmir started here at KU on Monday. Scholars, faculty members, students and delegates drawn from various Institutes of India and Central Asia such as Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, JNU, Jamia Milia Islamia, Delhi University are […]
Drug peddler arrested in Sopore
Srinagar: Police on Monday arrested a drug peddler in north Kashmir’s Sopore area, a police spokesman said. He said that during routine frisking at a checkpoint at Krankshivan Sopore a person identified as Aamir Akbar Mir son of Mohammad Akbar Mir resident of Mumkak Sopore was arrested for drug offences as some contraband substances were […]
