Grenade blast targeting a beauty parlour leaves two girls injured
Pulwama: Two girls sustained minor injuries after unknown persons lobbed a grenade in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Thursday, police sources said. The attack was carried out targeting a beauty parlour in the area. Police sources said that the two girls sustained minor splinter injuries in the attack in Rajpora Chowk of Pulwama town. Suspected […]
Police arrests six people for rumour mongering
Srinagar: Police Thursday arrested six ‘rumour mongers’ for spreading false information about braid chopping in the vicinity of Batamaloo. These rumour mongers were taking advantage of braid chopping incidents to instigate general public for protests and to motivate the youth of Batamaloo area to pelt stones upon deployed security forces in Batamaloo area. The basic […]
Lock down of schools cannot solve problems: AJKSU
Srinagar: All J&K Students Union (AJKSU), Thursday said, the panic created in the valley has directly hit the student community. “School lockdown cannot help to resolve the problem. Rather it exposes the amount of authority PDP has surrendered. Students have right to express the fear they witness, in homes, hostels, schools and markets and it […]
Mirwaz expresses sympathy with Khanyar fire victims
Srinagar: Patron of Darul-Khair, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Thursday expressed deep anguish over huge loss of property in the fire incident at Koolipora Khanyar in old city. According to the statement issued here, Mirwaiz expressed hearty solidarity and sympathy to almost over a dozen families, whose houses got damaged in the blaze and stressed for the […]
AMK’s 2-day annual literary conference to begin in Bandipora on Saturday
Srinagar: The 38th two-day annual literary conference of Adbee Markaz Kamraz Jammu and Kashmir (AMK) will begin in North Kashmir’s Bandipora District on October 14(Saturday). A galaxy of writers, poets, scholars, teachers and students from across the state are participating in the mega event. Adbee Markaz Kamraz J&K the state’s oldest and largest literary organisation […]
JKTDC organises 3-day traditional Kashmir food festival in Pahalgam
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Tourism Development Corporation (JKTDC) is organizing three day traditional Kashmir food and cultural festival in Pahalgam from Thursday. “We are organising food and cultural festival to attract tourists as well as locals to Pahalgam. Besides traditional Kashmiri food, we will also promote local arts and crafts of Pahalgam,” said JKTDC VC […]
KSCDS stages protest against braid chopping incidents
Srinagar: Kashmir Centre for Social and Developmental Studies (KSCDS) Thursday organized a protest against braid chopping here in Srinagar city on Thursday. The protest was attended by cross section of society including civil society members, lawyers and traders even as the Chairperson KSCDS Hameedah Nayeem had been put under house arrest. The protesters […]
GoI’s refusal to hand over power projects exposed PDP-BJP combine: Hakim Yasin
Srinagar: Peoples Democratic Front (PDF) president and MLA Khansahib Hakim Mohammad Yasin today said that Government of India’s categoric refusal to return the hydel power projects from the NHPC to J&K has once again exposed the PDP-BJP government’s so-called ‘Agenda of Alliance’. While reacting to Union Power Minister RK Singh’s statement that 390-MW Dulhasti and […]
New Delhi carrying assault on women’s dignity: Geelani
Srinagar: Paying tributes to the two slain militant who were killed in Hajin encounter, Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman, Syed Ali Geelani Thursday said that the youth are sacrificing their precious lives for a greater cause to serve their nation. “We are duty bound to carry their mission to its logical conclusion,” he said. According to […]
Govts’ attitude towards handicrafts, artisans is criminal: NC
Srinagar: National Conference Thursday expressed serious concern over the continuous indifference of both state and central governments towards the plight of artisans, carpet workers, shawl embroidery workers, wood carvers and other skilled, semi skilled workers following the imposition of GST in J&K. The party demanded that the government initiates process of declaring handicrafts and other […]