Study group to suggest security upgrade on JK highway
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Police chief Dilbag Singh said a study group has been set up to suggest measures to strengthen security along the 270-km Jammu-Srinagar highway, following the Pulwama attack. Singh said two suicide attacks were foiled by police with killing of two Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorists after the February 14 terror attack in which […]
Omar defends comment on return of Prez, PM posts for JK
Says NC will strive hard for restoring the terms of accession
Srinagar: National Conference vice-president Omar Abdullah Tuesday defended his statement that his party would strive hard for restoring the terms of accession of Jammu and Kashmir, including the provisions for having a ‘sadr-e-riyasat’ and wazir-e-azam in the state. “I have not said anything wrong. I have only reiterated what is a reality. Is it not […]
Doing away with article 370, 35A will end JK’s accession to India: Farooq
Srinagar: NC chief Farooq Abdullah Tuesday said those saying articles 370 and 35A of the Constitution were supposed to be temporary are “wittingly or unwittingly affirming” that J-K’s accession to India too was “temporary”. The former Jammu and Kashmir (J-K) chief minister asserted that people were unfazed by the threats of the BharatiyaJanata Party (BJP)-RashtriyaSwayamsevakSangh […]
Shabir Shah propelled Kashmir unrest, generated funds with Pak help: ED
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate Tuesday told a Delhi court that jailed Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Shah generated funds from Pakistan and other countries to carry out unrest in the Valley. The agency made the submission before Additional Sessions Judge Satish Kumar Arora while opposing Shah’s bail application in a decade-old money laundering case for […]
KEG regrets stopping govt advertisements to ‘Kashmir Uzma’
Srinagar: Editors body, Kashmir Editors Guild (KEG) regretted, yet again, that while it was expecting the lifting of the ban on government business to two major newspapers – The Greater Kashmir and Kashmir Reader, the government has added Kashmir Uzma to the list. The ban, as usual, is unexplained and implemented without conveying to the […]
Innovative: Govt mulling to setup coaching centres in degree colleges
Srinagar: In a significant development, the higher education department is mulling to setup coaching centres in all the degree colleges of J&K state. In this regard the officials have given directions to the college principals to explore the possibility of setting up coaching centres within campuses which would cater to various competitive exams and specified […]
FATF plans Pak’s blacklisting: FM Qureshi
Lahore: Pakistan could be blacklisted by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) due to “lobbying by India”, Foreign Minister Shah MahmoodQureshi said as he estimated that the country could suffer USD 10 billion loss annually if it remains in the watchdog’s grey list. In June last year, the Paris-based FATF had placed Pakistan on the […]
