Detention without charges worst abomination in democracy: Chidambaram on PSA on Omar, Mehbooba
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Friday slammed the government for invoking the Public Safety Act against former Jammu and Kashmir chief ministers Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah and said detention without charges is the worst abomination in a democracy. Mufti and Abdullah, besides two political stalwarts from the PDP and its arch-rival […]
Invoking PSA on former CM’s belies govt claims that everything is normal in JK’: CPI(M)
New Delhi: The CPI(M) on Friday slammed the government for invoking the Public Safety Act against former Jammu and Kashmir chief ministers Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah, saying the move belies the Centre’s claims that “everything is normal in J-K”. Former Jammu and Kashmir chief ministers Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti were on Thursday night […]
HC dismisses plea challenging detention of Mian Qayoom under PSA

Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Friday dismissed a petition challenging the detention under the Public Safety Act (PSA) of Kashmir Bar Association president Mian Abdul Qayoom and held that preventive detention was not a punitive measure. Justice Tashi Rabstan, while dismissing the petition, said it was sans merit. “A law of preventive […]
JK HC dismisses PIL seeking stay on release of ‘Shikara’
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Friday dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking a stay on the release of ‘Shikara’, a movie on the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley in 1990. A division bench of the high court comprising Justices A M Magray and D S Thakur dismissed the PIL […]
Over 200 JKIFDC funded projects completed in the past 6 months in JK
Jammu: Over 200 Jammu and Kashmir Infrastructure Development Finance Corporation (JKIDFC) funded projects were completed since August last year and about 1,000 more will be completed by the end of the current financial year, officials said on Friday. “A major improvement has been recorded in completion of the projects taken under JKIDFC and till now […]
Army porter accidentally steps on landmine near LoC, injured
Jammu: A 45-year-old villager, who was working as a porter with the army, was injured on Thursday after he accidentally stepped on a landmine near the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district, police said. The incident took place when Mangat Ram, a resident of Dadoka village, was near a forward post in the Nowshera […]
Kashmir continues to reel under sub-zero temperatures

Srinagar: Kashmir continued to reel under sub-zero temperatures on Thursday, with Gulmarg recording a low of minus 9.0 degrees Celsius, a MeT department official said. Mercury in Pahalgam, the south Kashmir resort that serves as the base camp for annual Amaranth Yatra, dropped to minus 7.4 degrees Celsius from 9.3 degrees Celsius a night earlier, […]
Body recovered from encounter site in Pulwama, likely of militant: Police

Srinagar: Body of an unidentified man, believed to be a militant, was recovered on Thursday from the encounter site in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama where one ultra was killed last month, officials said. The body was recovered by locals in the Khrew area where an encounter had taken place between militants and security forces on […]
Move beyond rhetoric, allow democratic and political process to resume in JK: PDP to Centre

Jammu: Asserting that all sections of society in Jammu and Kashmir were feeling “betrayed”, the PDP on Thursday said the Centre must move beyond “rhetoric” and allow democratic and political process to resume in the union territory. “The affirmation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi that Jammu and Kashmir is crown jewel of India and the […]
JK: Elevated Light Rail System to be set up in Jammu, Srinagar

Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Thursday approved a proposal to set up the Elevated Light Rail System (ELRS) in the twin capital cities of Jammu and Srinagar. The approval to the Rs 10,559 crore project was granted by the Administrative Council, which met under the chairmanship of Lieutenant Governor G C Murmu here, […]