After 30 years, wedding bells ring in Gulmarg’s oldest church
Srinagar: After 30 years, wedding bells rang in the oldest church in Gulmarg in Kashmir. The wedding was of Australians Tim Robertson and Kate Hamilton which took place on Thursday at St Mary’s church in Gulmarg. It was the first in over three decades at Kashmir’s oldest Protestant Church. The couple […]
Education Department gets freedom: Shah Faesal
Srinagar: Former IAS officer Shah Faesal today said the education department has got freedom today. He said this minutes after Jammu & Kashmir teachers forum president Abdul Qayoom Wani resigned from the services and joined PDP formally. Faesal, who has also served as Director Education Kashmir, in a facebook post said, “Education Department […]
Koregaon Bhima case: Pune Police arrests accused Dalit scholar Anand Teltumbde
Mumbai, Feb 2 (PTI) Dalit scholar Anand Teltumbde has been arrested by the Pune Police in the Elgar Parishad case for his alleged links with the banned CPI-Maoist, officials said on Saturday. Police detained Teltumbde, a professor at Goa Institute of Management, at Mumbai airport early hours Saturday, a day after a special court […]
Mafia don turned politician Sahabuddin’s aide shot dead
Siwan (Bihar), Feb 2 (PTI) A close aide of mafia don-turned-politician Mohammed Shahabuddin was shot dead late on Friday night, triggering tension in the town, a police official said on Saturday. Superintendent of Police, Siwan, Naveen Chandra Jha said Mohd Yusuf (40) was gunned down at a spot about half a kilometer from the Town […]
Wives of former militants who surrendered under rehabilitation policy rue state apathy
Srinagar : Wives of former militants who surrendered under rehabilitation policy on Saturday protested against government for not implementing its rehabilitation policy and rue state apathy towards them. “We came back under state declared policy but here we are being called illegal residents and state is not supporting us in any way,” protesting wives said. […]
Efforts on to reestore Srinagar Jammu Highway: Officials
Jammu, Feb 2 (PTI) With improvement in weather conditions, the authorities have stepped up efforts to restore the strategically important Jammu-Srinagar National Highway which has remained closed for vehicular traffic since Thursday due to multiple landslides along the Banihal-Ramban stretch, officials said. “Fresh landslides occurred overnight at several places including Anokhi fall, Digdole […]
Mirwaiz placed under house detention, says ‘panic buttons pressed by authoritarian state’
Srinagar: Government on Saturday placed Hurriyat Conference (M) chairperson Mirwaiz Umar Farooq under house detention at his Nigeen residence. The detention comes a day ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Jammu and Kashmir. Mirwaiz tweeted: “Ahead of @narendramodi visit, panic buttons pressed by the authoritarian state and control tightened as searches and CASO […]
Government strikes down transfer orders by Director FCSCA, had defied transfer policy
Jammu: Government has struck down many transfers ordered by Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs, Jammu for being premature and in violation of norms. According to an order issued by Dr. Abdul Rashid (KAS) Commissioner Secretary to the Government Department of Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs, the orders issued by the Director were found […]
Qayoom Wani joins PDP, to contest polls from north Kashmir
Srinagar: Former EJAC Leader Ab Qayoom Wani formally joined People’s Democratic Party on Saturday. Former employees leader will be party’s Lok Sabha candidate from north Kashmir. Mehbooba Mufti said that wani will be PDP’s North Kashmir face in the upcoming polls. Wani resigned from services and the organisations he was heading to enter into political […]
Boko Haram killed ‘at least 60’ in NE Nigeria: Amnesty
Lagos,(AFP) Boko Haram killed at least 60 civilians in an attack on the remote town of Rann in northeast Nigeria earlier this week, Amnesty International said on Friday. The human rights group’s Nigeria director Osai Ojigho said “at least 60 people” were killed while satellite imagery showed “mass burning” of structures used by displaced people. […]
