DFP supporters stage protest, demand better facilities for Shabir Shah
Srinagar: Following media reports suggesting that the President of Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) Shabir Ahmad Shah’s health has deteriorated in Delhi’s Tihar jail, his supporters today lodged a protest against the alleged denial of treatment to Shah. Supporters of Shah reached Press Enclave shortly around noon and started raising slogans against the authorities for denial […]
CM announces withdrawal of FIRs against first-time stone-pelters
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has announced to restart the process of withdrawing FIRs against first time offenders of stone pelting. In a Twitter post CM said: ” It gives me immense satisfaction to restart the process of withdrawing FIRs against first time offenders of stone pelting. My government had initiated […]
Cordon and search operation in Kokernag village
Srinagar: Government forces on Thursday launched a cordon and search operation in Lisser village of Kokernag area in south Kashmir’s Anantnag District. Official sources said that area was cordoned off by 19RR in a joint operation with 164 CRPF and Jammu Kashmir Police after receiving inputs about the presence Of militants in the area. Large […]
IAF’s quest to ‘train’ its men proving costly
Srinagar: After Pathankot airbase militant attack last year, the Indian Air Force (IAF) is sending its commandos for operational training in anti-militancy operations in Kashmir to safeguard its airbases. Officials say 30 commandos of the IAF have been deployed with Army’s elite counter-insurgency units – Rashtriya Rifles – in north Kashmir for “operational experience and […]
Thorpe’s 149th death anniversary: Kashmiris remember their ‘first martyr’
Srinagar: Though an Englishman, Robert Thorpe fought for the people of Kashmir. Thorpe, who breathed his last on November 22,1868 was poisoned to death for opposing the tyrannical rule of the Dogras who had subjugated Kashmir’s and were using all sort of repressive measures against the poor masses. Thorpe was remembered on his 149th death […]
Srinagar records coldest night
Srinagar: Intense cold tightened its noose over the state as night temperatures dipped further in the Valley and frontier region of Ladakh, forcing people to search for heavy woolens to ward off the bone chilling cold. Leh continues to be the coldest place in the state as the minimum temperature there dipped to minus 11.4 […]
ATM stolen in Shopian, 8th in south Kashmir this year
Shopian: Unidentified men decamped with an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) of Jammu and Kashmir Bank late last night from the premises of sub district hospital Shopian, police sources said. They said that the men had ripped off the machine from the ground and fled with it in a vehicle they had brought along. The […]
Militant, soldier killed as infiltration bid foiled: Army
Srinagar: A militant and a soldier were killed while as two troopers were injured in a gunfight along the Line of Control (LoC) in Keran sector of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district, army said Wednesday. Army’s Srinagar based defence spokesperson said that the soldiers manning the fence near Chunkun post intercepted a group of infiltrators Wednesay […]
‘Efforts underway to bring Kashmiri youth back to the right path’
New Delhi: Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Hansraj Ahir on Thursday said efforts were being taken up by the government to bring the youth back to the right track in Jammu and Kashmir. Ahir’s statement has come in the wake of reports of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) asking the Mehbooba Mufti-led […]
Fee waiver for girl students: Govt yet to compensate schools
Srinagar: Despite the commencement of new academic session in schools, the government is yet to release funds to the government girls’ schools from last academic session after fee waiver for girl students’ up to class 12 was announced. The move has left the educational institutions starving for funds as the institutions could not generate local […]