Inclement weather forecast: Kashmir colleges to remain closed until February 21
SRINAGAR: In view of the inclement weather forecast, the Divisional administration in Kashmir has ordered deferred reopening of colleges after winter vacations across the division. Divisional Commissioner Baseer Ahmad Khan said all colleges across the Kashmir division scheduled to reopen tomorrow after winter vacations will now reopen on Thursday February 21. […]
Whose purpose is being served by ‘ostracising’ Kashmiris, asks Omar
Srinagar,(PTI) Kashmir is not just a piece of land, it is the people that inhabit it, National Conference (NC) vice-president Omar Abdullah asserted Sunday, saying by attacking Kashmiris, they were being told there is no place for them outside the valley and no future in the mainland. “Young Kashmiri students studying outside J&K should have been […]
Four Kashmiri students of pvt varsity suspended, booked for ‘celebrating’ Pulwama attack
Jaipur, (PTI) Four female paramedical students of Kashmiri-origin were suspended from a private institute here and later booked for allegedly celebrating the Pulwama terror attack by posting “anti-national” messages on an instant messaging app, officials said Sunday. The second-year students of the National Institute of Medical Science (NIMS), Talveen Manzoor, Iqra, Zohra Nazir and Uzma Nazir, […]
Pulwama attack: Shiv Sena leader wants boycott of tourism in J&K, Chinese goods
Mumbai PTI: Against the backdrop of the Pulwama attack that claimed lives of 40 CRPF personnel, a Shiv Sena leader wants people from other parts of India to boycott tourism in Jammu and Kashmir for two years. Sena legislator and spokesperson Manisha Kayande said boycotting tourism in Jammu and Kashmir, “where youth, women and children pelt […]
Israel, Mahmoud Abbas condemn Pulwama attack, express condolences
Jerusalem/Ramallah, Feb 17 (PTI) Israel and Palestine have both condemned the “abhorrent” and “heinous” Pulwama terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir and expressed their condolences. Forty CRPF soldiers were killed and five others critically injured when a suicide bomber rammed a vehicle laden with explosives into their bus on Thursday. The Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) […]
U’khand police asks Kashmiri students to not issue provocative statements
Dehradun, (PTI) Uttarakhand police Sunday appealed to Kashmiri students studying in the state to not issue provocative statements on social media in the wake of Pulwama terrorist attack in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed. “People are outraged across the country over the Pulwama attack and students from Jammu and Kashmir studying in Uttarakhand should not […]
AMU issues advisory asking Kashmiri students not to move out of campus
Aligarh (UP), Feb 17 (PTI) The AMU has issued an advisory to its Kashmiri students asking them “not to move out of the campus” as a precautionary measure after protests broke out in this city in the aftermath of the Pulwama terror attack, varsity authorities said. In the deadliest attack on security forces in Kashmir last […]
There is fire in my heart, PM Modi on Pulwama attack
Begusarai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said there was “fire” in his heart over the suicide bombing of a CRPF convoy in Jammu and Kashmir that killed 49 troopers. “Jo aag aapke dil mein hai, wahi aag mere dial mein bhi hai” (I feel the same fire im my heart that is burning inside […]
IED, bombs menace growing more in J-K than Naxal theatre: Report
New Delhi(PTI) Jammu and Kashmir has seen a steady increase in IED blasts and other bombing incidents over the last five years, with 2018 witnessing a 57 per cent jump in such incidents while two other major theatres of violence — LWE-hit areas and North East – saw the number of such incidents going down, […]
Pak briefs African and SCO envoys about situation after Pulwama attack
Islamabad,(PTI) Pakistan Sunday briefed ambassadors from African and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) countries about the situation after the Pulwama terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir that killed 41 CRPF soldiers. India held a briefing for envoys of 25 countries, including from P5 nations — US, China, Russia, the UK and France — in New Delhi […]
