Uddhav Thackeray demands ordinance on Ram temple
Says Modi has courage to get the temple constructed
Ayodhya (UP): Government should bring an ordinance to construct Ram temple, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray said on Sunday in Ayodhya, asserting that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has the courage to do so and there would be no one to stop it. Thackeray offered prayers at the makeshift Ram Lalla temple along with his son […]
Hospitals in Delhi to join IMA’s strike call today
New Delhi: Healthcare services at several government and private hospitals in the national capital are likely to take a hit on Monday as scores of doctors have decided to boycott work for a day in support of their striking colleagues in West Bengal. The Indian Medical Association (IMA) had given the June 17 strike call […]
The rising airfares

As the heat wave intensifies across the plains in India tourism in Kashmir saw a fresh leash of life as the domestic tourist footfall increased tremendously during the past one week or so. The arrivals reached upto more than 6K per day as hordes of tourists were arriving in Kashmir to escape from the scorching […]
NC pitches for dialogue with ‘disgruntled’ youth

Srinagar: The National Conference (NC) said on Sunday that there was a need for having a dialogue with the “disgruntled” youth of Jammu and Kashmir for achieving long-lasting peace in the state. Demanding the restoration of autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir, NC general secretary Ali Mohammad Sagar said the party is not seeking anything novel […]
NTA must set-up NEET centers in Kashmir, Ladakh: Tarigami

Srinagar: CPI (M) leader M.Y. Tarigami on Sunday said that the National Testing Agency (NTA) must set up more NEET examination centers in Kashmir Valley and Ladakh region as thousands of students have been allotted Centers outside the state. “It becomes very difficult for Kashmiri students to travel to Delhi and other parts of the […]
Congress capable enough to overcome challenges: G A Mir
Srinagar: Congress party is capable enough to overcome the challenges and defeat the “malicious campaign unleashed by the adversaries”, J&K Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) President G A Mir has said. While interacting with the party workers at Verinag in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, Mir said that Congress would also defeat the “conspiracies being hatched against […]
Time ripe to show NC, PDP their ‘right place’: Er Rasheed
Baramulla: AIP President Er Rasheed has said that time was ripe to show NC, PDP and other traditional parties “their right place and make them to pay for their politics of exploitation”. Addressing a day long convention of party workers at Dak-Bungalow Baramulla on Sunday, Rasheed said that NC leadership “cannot always befool Kashmiris, stab […]
NAAC-accredited colleges swelled from 13 to 30: Govt
Clarifies reports on accreditation of Degree Colleges
SRINAGAR: The Department of Higher Education has clarified a news story regarding NAAC accreditation of Degree Colleges in Jammu and Kashmir. “It is clarified that assessment norms of the NAAC have undergone certain changes in recent times under which obtaining higher grades of A and A ++ and also maintaining earlier NAAC gradings of educational […]
Thrashing of doctor in West Bengal
DAK writes to Governor Malik, demands ordinance on incidents involving medicos
Srinagar: In the backdrop of recent thrashing of a doctor in West Bengal, Doctors Association Kashmir has written to Governor Satya Pal Malik demanding ordinance against violence with the doctor community. In a letter addressed to Malik on Sunday, the DAK said that it had been demanding introduction of the ordinance for last two decades. […]