PM Modi flays Congress for seeking to dilute AFSPA
Kolkata, Apr 3 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday hit out at the Congress for seeking to dilute the law that protects the armed forces in terror-affected areas and alleged the party is speaking the language of Pakistan. Modi accused the Congress of bowing down to terrorism and alleged that the anti-Modi obsession of opposition […]
Azad addresses poll rally telephonically amid Pak shelling
Jammu, Apr 3 (PTI) Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad Tuesday addressed an election rally telephonically in a border village in Rajouri district as Pakistan shelling along the Line of Control played the spoilsport. Azad, who reached here on a three-day election campaign trail, was scheduled to address a rally at Laam area of Nowshera […]
Crime branch of Police to probe JKPCC scams
Jammu, April 2 (PTI) Jammu and Kashmir administration Tuesday handed over the investigation of major scams in Jammu & Kashmir Projects Construction Corp (JKPCC) to crime branch of the state police, which will register an FIR soon, an official spokesman said. This is a major step towards eradication of corruption in the organisation, stopping and […]
The bumpy road network
The summer season has arrived and with the arrival of summer season the government has announced the opening of tourism season. Though, the valley is not witnessing a good number of arrivals at this time but the government on its part has already opened up the world famous tulip garden and is well preparing for […]
Probes and findings proving immaterial in JK
By KANCHAN BASU Probes and findings are two different things over which the Governments of the State and the Centre usually go very slow resulting which the delinquents in our Country go scot free and pass their luxury lives after acquiring due huge properties – Land and Flats in the posh colonies in the Metros […]
India sends note verbale to Pak, demands repatriation of 10 Indian prisoners
New Delhi, Apr 2 (PTI) India on Tuesday sent a note verbale to Pakistan demanding the immediate release and repatriation of 10 Indian civilian prisoners lodged in Pakistani jails who have already completed their sentence, sources said. The Ministry of External Affairs sent the note verbale to Pakistan High Commission conveying India’s deep concern over […]
Ample evidence by NIA to show link between Hurriyat, terror groups, says SC; cancels Watali bail
New Delhi, Apr 2 (PTI) The Supreme Court Tuesday cancelled the bail of Zahoor Ahmad Shah Watali, a Kashmiri businessman, in a terror funding case saying NIA has collected ample evidence to show linkages between the Hurriyat leaders of Jammu and Kashmir and terror organisations as also their activities to wage war against India. The […]
If articles 370, 35A are temporary, so is 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 Bharatiya Janata Party […]
KEG regrets stopping 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 newspaper. “The ban, as we […]
J&K Bank starts Amarnath Yatra registration
Jammu: J&K Bank started registration for 46 day long Amarnath Yatra – 2019 to the Himalayan cave shrine today, at 90 designated business units in twenty-one states across the county. The Bank’s Zonal Head Jammu (Central-I) Sudhir Gupta handed over the first Yatra-slip to Ujwal Sharma of Jammu for the Route Baltal at the Bank’s Residency […]