Kashmir most challenging work place for a Journalist, senior scribes
Srinagar: Kashmir is one of the most challenging places for journalists to report from, senior journalist Yusuf Jameel said on Saturday at a maiden event at Kashmir Press Club about “reporting in Kashmir: Challenges and Dealing with Harassment”. Sharing his experiences about his journalistic career spread over for more than three decades, he recalled that […]
Forces cook up covering stories to justify killings: Malik
Srinagar: Condemning the killing of Chadoora youth and a girl from Kulgam who succumbed t her injuries on Saturday, Chairman of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), Muhammad Yasin Malik Saturday termed killing spree as ‘worst kind of savagery’. Malik who is languishing at jail has condemned what he termed as brutal killing of yet another […]
Kashmir situation sensitive, fragile, play positive role: JRL to former Norwegian PM
Srinagar: Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) leaders including Syed Ali Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Friday met the former Prime Minister of Norway Kjell Mangne Bondevik at Hyderpora. Mohammad Yasin Malik, other leader of JRL couldn’t attend the meetings as he is under detention. Geelani and Mirwaiz briefed Bondevik about the present prevailing situation in Kashmir. […]
Geelani, Mirwaiz meet former Norwegian PM
Srinagar: Syed Ali Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday met the former Prime Minister of Norway Kjell Mangne Bondevik at Hyderpora while Muhammad Yasin Malik couldn’t attend the meetings as he is under detention. Geelani and Mirwaiz briefed Bondevik about the present prevailing situation in Kashmir. A JRL statement issued here said Geelani and […]
Youth injured in army firing in Budgam, critical
Srinagar: A person was injured critically in government forces action at Chattergam area of central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Friday evening. A motorcyclist Ishfaq Ahmad Ganie son of Nazir Ahmad Ganie of Magraypora Budgam was fired upon by soldiers of 50 RR camp at Chittergam. In the incident, Ishfaq suffered serious bullet wounds and was […]
Kashmiris slaughtered with horrible weapons: Sehrai
Srinagar: Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Chairman, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai on Friday said that Kashmiris have been slaughtered with the most horrible weapons, including bulldozing and demolish their homes over their heads. “The south Kashmir belt has been subjected to ruthless military offensive and the cost has been devastating, in terms of innocent human casualties as well as infrastructure. […]
JK Bank brought under RTI, CVC Guidelines
Jammu: The State Administrative Council (SAC) which met here on Thursday under the chairmanship of Governor, Satya Pal Malik in a significant decision approved the proposal for treating the Jammu and Kashmir Bank Limited as a Public Sector Undertaking (PSU). The SAC approved that the provisions of the Jammu and Kashmir Right to Information Act, […]
J&K Aadhaar Bill-2018 gets SC nod
Jammu: The State Administrative Council (SAC) which met here on Thursday under the chairmanship of Governor, Shri Satya Pal Malik approved the ‘Jammu and Kashmir Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Bill, 2018’. The Act provides legal and statutory backing to the use of Aadhaar and would address privacy and […]
Strike disrupts normal life across Kashmir
Srinagar: Normal life was disrupted in Kashmir Valley Thursday due to a strike called by separatists to protest the killing of a Hurriyat activist in Anantnag district on Tuesday. Most of the shops, fuel stations and other business establishments were shut here in the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. They said public […]
Mir Hafizullah killed under a well-throughout plan: Sehrai
Anantnag: People have been armed to wipe out Jama’at and Tehreek-e-Hurriyat activists and leaders, Tehreek-e-Hurriyat (TeH) chairman Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai said on Wednesday. Sehrai was addressing mourners at the residence of slain TeH leader Hafizullah Mir in Baddoo village of Achabal in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district. “People have been armed to wipe out Jama’at–e-Islami and […]