LoC residents ask for secure dwellings, seek help from Home Minister
Living a life of desperation owing to the continues rattle of guns along the Line of Control (LoC), the border residents on Tuesday demanded setting up of bunkers at their residences near the Line of Control (LoC). Interacting with the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, who reached out to them over 5,000 people living in […]
KEG seeks release of Kamran Yusuf
Kashmir Editors Guild (KEG) has expressed serious concern over the continuous detention of freelance photographer Kamran Yusuf. In a statement issued here, a KEG spokesman said that the agency NIA has arrested Kamran Yusuf without spelling out the reasons and that doesn’t gel with the set legal norms prevalent in any democratic setup. KEG has […]
Rajouri woman hit by stray bullet
A woman was injured near the LoC in Naushera sector of Rajouri district, police sources said. Rahmat Bi (35), a resident of Pokhari village, complained of immense pain in her thigh early this morning after sleeping outside her house, and on inspection by her family, blood was noticed oozing out from a wound, a police […]
Hizb terms Zakir Musa as ‘traitor’
Hardening its stand against its former commander, Zakir Musa, militant outfit Hizbul Mujahideen Tuesday claimed that Musa is a ‘traitor’ and is taking money from Indian agencies to get militants killed. In a video recently uploaded on internet, the authenticity of which could not be verified, five masked man brandishing automatic weapons claimed that Zakir […]
3000 jobs to migrants from Kashmir valley: Rajnath Singh
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said that the Centre is trying to give equitable development to all the three regions of the state. “Several projects are under implementation under PMDP. The Centre has decided to give 3000 jobs to migrants from Kashmir valley and Rs 1080 crores have been sanctioned to the state under this […]
Jammu-Srinagar highway remained closed
The 300-km arterial Jammu- Srinagar national highway remained closed for traffic on Tuesday, a police spokesman said. He said that the traffic was suspended for the second consecutive day today due to landslides. The official, however, did not give any clear indication of when the vital road will reopen. Efforts are on to clear the […]
NC proposes regional autonomy for all provinces
Opposition National Conference (NC), Tuesday said that regional autonomy to Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh is a way forward to satiate aspirations of the people in three distinct regions of the State. “We strongly believe that autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir and regional autonomy to the three regions with autonomous administrative structures for sub-regions on […]
Editorial : Nowhere to go
As the Rohingya crisis deepens with every passing day more than three lakh refugees have poured in Bangladesh, a country which is finding it hard to accommodate the swelling number of refugees. The Bangladesh government has appealed for international support to move the Rohingya to a secluded island as the impoverished country confronts a growing […]
Omar allocates 2.25 Cr for various developmental works in Beerwa
Former Chief Minister and MLA, Beerwa Tuesday announced the allocation of further 2.25 crores for various developmental and infrastructural works in Beerwah Constituency. In a special meeting with party office bearers of all three blocks of Beerwah Constituency held at Party Headquarters ‘Nawa-e-Subha’ in Srinagar, Omar Abdullah reviewed the status of various developmental initiatives […]
Court rejects bail pleas of rape accused
The District Court in Kulgam Tuesday rejected the bail application of six accused including two women, who allegedly abducted and raped two girls on intervening night of 25/26 July this year. Among the six accused are two sisters Rumy Jan and Amina Banoo, daughters of Abdul Aziz of Kulgam district. The four male accused […]