Striping of responsibilities: CAPD Department employees stage protest
Srinagar: Employees from Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution Department (CAPD) Tuesday staged a protest against the government proposal to strip the department off from some of its responsibilities. The Department of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs previously known as ‘Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution Department’ is one of the oldest Department in the State […]
Six suspected drug peddlers arrested
Jammu: Six suspected drug peddlers have been arrested by the police from Jammu and Samba districts, officials said Wednesday. While one person was held in Jammu the other five accused were nabbed in Samba, they said. Following a tip-off, a police team intercepted an SUV at Ban toll plaza in Jammu and seized two kg […]
State Congress condemns killing of RSS leader, seeks probe
Srinagar: The J&K Pradesh Congress committee (JKPCC) has strongly condemned the killing of an RSS leader and his personal Security Guard in Kishtwar by unidentified gunmen and conveyed deepest condolences to the bereaved families. The leader of the rightwing Hindu nationalist group, Chanderkant and his body guard, Rajinder Kumar were killed by unidentified gunmen on […]
BJP’s promise to revoke Article 370 ‘clear case of contempt of court’: Monga
Appeals SC, ECI to take cognizance
Srinagar: Terming BJP’s promise of eliminating Article 370 of the Constitution in its Lok Sabha election manifesto as a contempt of court, Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) Vice President and former MLC G N Monga appealed the apex court and Election Commission of India (ECI) to take strict against the BJP. Addressing an […]
Washrooms at SDH Sopore left to stink
BMO says patients, attendants 'responsible'
Sopore: Despite tall claims of the government to improve the health sector in Kashmir, scores of indoor and outdoor patients visiting Sub district hospital, Sopore are complaining of poor hygienic conditions in the hospital. Patients at the hospital said the hospital premises especially the washrooms were at high risk of infection due to the unhygienic […]
5 months on, Pulwama village awaits snowfall compensation
Pulwama: More than five months since the untimely snowfall damaged orchards across the valley in November last year, district authorities in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district have failed to compensate the orchardists of Zahidbagh village. While orchardists from neighbouring villages had received the compensation “months ago”, the aggrieved orchardists from Zahidbagh complained that authorities had failed […]
Class 9 student dies falls unconscious, dies
Sopore: A class 9 student from Sopore area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Tuesday died mysteriously after falling down unconscious earlier in the day. Reports said that Mueet Naseer Parray, a 16-year old, son of Naseer Ahmad of New colony Sopore died while he unconsciously fell down near general bus stand Sopore. Eye witness […]
Er Rasheed exhorts people to ‘caste every single vote’
Says boycott 'will help enemies of JK'
Uri/Kupwara: On the last day of election campaign, AIP candidate for Baramullah parliament seat, Er. Rasheed addressed many rallies in Uri, Rafiabad, Handwara and Kupwara constituencies and thanked people for their “huge love and support” during the entire campaign. Rasheed reiterated his appeal to masses and said that AIP had emerged as a “strong, popular, […]
Forces damage militant hideout in Shopian
Shopian: Government forces on Tuesday morning busted a militant hideout in forests of Yawran Keller area of South Kashmir’s Shopian district. Sources said that the operation was carried out by a joint team of the police and Army’s 23 Para, police said. The hideout was later destroyed using explosives. They said that incriminating material was […]
Rise to occasion to ostracize BJP, PDP: Mir
Srinagar: Maintaining that PDP-BJP unholy alliance was a “big cause of alienation among the people in the State, the J&K Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) President G A Mir appealed the people to rise to the occasion to defeat these parties and to “ostracize” them. He said these parties had “always exploited common masses for the […]
