CRPF trooper injured in Tral week ago succumbs at AIIMS
Srinagar: After battling for life for nine days, a paramilitary CRPF trooper who was injured critically in a gunfight in Tral area of in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district succumbed to injuries at AIIMS hospital in New Delhi. PRO CRPF Kashmir Sanjay Sharma told GNS that the trooper namely Mahesh Kumar Meena succumbed to injuries today in the evening. […]
Take note: Power shutdown in City areas tomorrow
Srinagar: Chief Engineer, EM&RE Wing, Kashmir Monday informed that 33 KV Rawalpora-Airforce and Rawalpora-Chapora lines would be shut down in order to carry out some emergency repair works. According to the official communiqué, Rawalpora-Chanpora Line will remain shut on 15th January 2019 from 2 pm to 4 pm, while as Rawalpora-Airforce line would be shut […]
JNU sedition case: Mehbooba questions timing of charge sheet
Srinagar: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti Monday questioned the timing of filing of charge sheet in the 2016 JNU sedition case, in which seven Kashmiris have been named, saying the students were being used to score political points ahead of Lok Sabha elections. These seven are among the 10 students, including former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ […]
Dr Nisar Ahmad Mir is new Registrar Kashmir University
Srinagar: Dr Nisar Ahmad Mir, former Joint Secretary, University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi and Registrar, National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar have been appointed as the Registrar, University of Kashmir, a KU spokesperson said Dr Nisar besides looking after various bureaus in UGC, was country head for the prestigious National Academic Depository (NAD) project. […]
Police arrests three bootleggers
Srinagar: Police in Anantnag arrested three bootleggers during a naka checking at Bijbehara and recovered huge quantity of illicit liquor from their possession. A police party of Police Station Bijbehara headed by SHO Bijbehara intercepted a Hyundai i-10 vehicle bearing registration number JKO3E-5373 during a naka checking on National Highway near Samthan Bijbehara, a police […]
Situation in J&K has worsened since 2014: Shiv Sena
Mumbai: The Shiv Sena said Monday that the situation in Jammu and Kashmir has worsened under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s watch and claimed the BJP-led government at the Centre frittered away the massive 2014 poll mandate. Modi talks about his “56-inch chest”, but more Army jawans have shed blood in the militancy-hit state under his dispensation […]
‘Indian mission in Islamabad raises issue of tailing of envoy with Pak’
New Delhi: The Indian High Commission in Islamabad has strongly raised with Pakistan alleged attempts to hack the social media account of one of its diplomats and incidents of close tailing of the Indian envoy and his deputy, official sources said. The Indian mission, in a note verbale, raised with Pakistan Foreign Office the incident […]
SC tags plea challenging Article 370 with another pending petition
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday ordered tagging of a PIL challenging the validity of Article 370 of the Constitution, which grants a special status to Jammu and Kashmir and limits Parliament’s power to make laws concerning the state, with another pending plea on the issue. A bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and […]
Owaisi slams move to introduce plastic bullets in JK
Hyderabad, Jan 14 (PTI) AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi Monday attacked the NDA government over reports that the government plans to introduce plastic bullets in Jammu and Kashmir. “This is this government’s Kashmir policy in all its glory. Instead of exploring the underlying reasons behind alienation in the valley; they are trying to find new “non-lethal […]
Hindus, Sikhs in Pakistan’s KPK to get cremation grounds
Peshawar: Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province has identified sites for the construction of a cremation ground for the Hindu and Sikh community and a graveyard for Christians. Nearly 1.25 acre of land has been identified in Samarbagh near Northern bypass Peshawar of which 0.5 acre will be allocated for the construction of the cremation ground and […]
