Respite from cold wave in Srinagar as night temperature rises
Srinagar: Residents of Srinagar got much needed reprieve from cold wave conditions as the night temperature rose by three degrees but the minimum temperature stayed below the freezing point across the valley and Ladakh region. Srinagar recorded a minimum temperature of minus 1.6 degrees Celsius last night, up from minus 4.8 degrees Celsius the previous […]
No politics, these killings must stop: Omar
Jammu: Former chief minister Omar Abdullah on Monday said the unabated killings in Kashmir should stop. “This continuous cycle of killings must end. We all have to end this bloodshed,” Omar said in the assembly. “We don’t want to play politics over it.” He said on one side, the magisterial inquiry has been ordered and […]
Shopian civilian killings: BJP demands withdrawal of FIR against army
Jammu: The coalition partner of the state government, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) demanded the withdrawal of an FIR lodged against the army men in the killing of two civilians in south Kashmir’s Shopian district. BJP’s RS Pathania said while speaking in the Assembly said that the government should withdraw the FIR against the Army personnel […]
Shopian killings: Arrest soldiers named in FIR, demands NC
Jammu: National Conference on Monday demanded the accused soldiers named in the FIR in connection with the killing of two civilians should be arrested immediately. According to the GNS correspondent, senior NC leader and former minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Ali Mohammad Sagar said that with regard to the civilian killings by army in the Shopian, […]
Uproar in House as opposition demands discussion on Shopian civilian killings
Jammu: The opposition parties created the ruckus in the Legislative Assembly on Monday over killing of two civilians by the army in south Kashmir’s Shopian district. As soon as the House assembled this morning after a long break, the National Conference (NC) and Congress legislators stood up and demanded a discussion over the killing of […]
Gunmen attack Kabul military academy: officials
Kabul: Gunmen launched a pre-dawn attack on a military academy in Kabul today, security officials and sources said, in an ongoing assault that marks the latest violence to strike the Afghan capital. Some of the attackers at the Marshal Fahim Military Academy have been killed, an Afghan security source said, in the third major attack in […]
Strike disrupts normal life in Kashmir
Srinagar: Normal life in Kashmir was today disrupted due to a strike called by separatists to protest the killing of two youth in Army firing in Shopian district even as authorities imposed restriction in parts of Srinagar and shutdown Internet services in four districts. Shops and business establishments remained closed in most parts of Kashmir […]
PDD blames consumers for power crisis in JK, says peak demand almost same as registered load
Jammu: With prevailing electricity crisis echoing in and outside Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, the Power Development Department (PDD) has blamed consumers and said unrestricted peak demand is almost double than the peak demand to be actually met forcing the department to go for scheduled and unscheduled power curtailments. “Against registered load of 3,101 MW, the demand […]
Time has not come for any rethink on AFSPA: Army Chief Gen Rawat
New Delhi: Time has not come for any rethink on AFSPA or making some of its provisions milder, Army Chief Gen. Bipin Rawat has said, asserting that the Army has been taking adequate precautions in protecting human rights while operating in disturb areas like Jammu and Kashmir. Rawat’s remarks assume significance as they come against […]
Pak condemns Kashmir deaths
Islamabad: Pakistan today condemned the killing of three people in alleged use of force by Indian forces in a village in Jammu and Kashmir. The Pakistan Foreign Office (FO) said in a statement that the three civilians were killed by in the Ganowpora village of Shopian district in “Indian-occupied Kashmir” on January 27. It said that […]