Any militant entering Indian territory will be killed, says Army Chief
New Delhi: Indian Army Chief General Bipin Rawat said the Army would neutralise any militants entering Indian territory. The army chief was referring to the encounter in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district in which forces killed the nephew of Jaish-e-Muhammad chief Masood Azhar. General Rawat, while talking to reporters on the sidelines of an event […]
Terror funding: NIA claims recovery of huge sums
New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday claimed it had seized nearly Rs 36.5 crore in demonetised notes during its probe into the Kashmir funding case. “We have seized demonetised currency of face value Rs 36,34,78,500 and arrested nine persons in this connection in the Jammu and Kashmir funding case,” the NIA said. […]
Malik takes on Pak PM
Srinagar: A day after the Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khanqan Abbasi claimed that idea of ‘independent Kashmir’ is not based on reality, Chairman of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), Muhammad Yasin Malik Tuesday asked him to stop creating confusion among the people of Kashmir. “Instead of issuing statements that may create confusion among the […]
New Delhi’s insensitivity leading to unabated bloodshed: Geelani
Srinagar: Paying tributes to slain youth in Agular Pulwama gunfight, Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani on Tuesday blamed Indian authorities, saying that their insensitivity and lack of concern are the sole reason for the unabated bloodshed. Geelani said that these youths spilled their blood for the great and sacred cause of Kashmir […]
Congress to meet interlocutor Sharma today
SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) has decided to meet the Centre’s special representative Dineshwar Sharma currently on a week-long visit here, today. “We have been invited for talks. We will definitely meet him (Sharma) probably in the second half of Wednesday,” JKPCC, Chief G A Mir told ‘Kashmir Wire’ here. […]
VC Wakf Board resigns
Srinagar: Vice Chairman JK Waqf Board, Pir Mohammad Hussain today resigned from his post, citing personal reasons. According to the sources, Hussain has sent his resignation to Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti who is the chairperson of the Board. Hussain has asked her to relieve him of his responsibility. “I have submitted my resignation to […]
Glimpse of Bihari brotherhood: Laborers pocket money to send dead body to Bihar
Srinagar: An example of unflinching Bihari brotherhood was Tuesday afternoon witnessed in the middle of Eidgah grounds, when hundreds of Bihari labourers assembled to pool money so that they could send the dead body of their colleague, Anwar Ali (18) home, who died after a brief illness at SMHS Hospital on Tuesday morning. Bihari labourers […]
Farooq tells Delhi to stop ‘politics of deceit’
Srinagar: Former Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah on Monday accused government of India of playing political of deceit over Kashmir. He said that New Delhi should understand that ‘iron fist and subjugation’ has never yielded positive results anywhere. “It is because of their persistently miscalculated approach that Kashmir has been going through the turmoil of worst […]
Revamp of Education Sector: Top officials from Edu Dept to meet MHRD team in New Delhi
Srinagar: In a significant development, the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has convened a meeting with J&K’s school education department for implementation of the road map proposed by the union Ministry. A team of top officials of J&K school education department on Tuesday left for New Delhi to attend their meeting with union MHRD […]
JeM militant laid to rest amid shutdown in Pulwama
Pulwama: Jaish-e-Muhammad militant Waseem Ahmad who was killed along with two Pakistani militants in the Aglar Kandi area on Tuesday evening was laid to rest in his ancestral village Drabgam on Wednesday afternoon. Witnesses said that hundreds of people including women and children participated in the procession that led to the ground where his […]