Elderly man, minor killed, three injured in car mishap
Bhaderwah: A 70-year-old man and a girl were killed and three others critically injured when their vehicle skidded off the road and fell into a deep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district Tuesday, police said. The five family members were on way to their home in Kishtwar when their car rolled down a hill […]
CPI (M) appeals to Jammu electorate to vote for secular candidates
Jammu: The CPI (M) Tuesday appealed to the people of Jammu to exercise their franchise in favour of the secular dispensation led by the Congress. The Jammu and Baramulla parliamentary constituencies will go to polls in the first phase of the five-phased elections in the state on April 11. The Communist Party of India (Marxist), […]
Book those uttering anti-national remarks during campaigns: BJP leader
Poonch: Reminding the top NC leadership that former chief minister Sheikh Abdullah was jailed for anti national remarks in 1953, a BJP leader in Jammu and Kashmir Tuesday said those raising “similar anti-national remarks” should be booked under sedition and banned from contesting polls. Two-time minister Sham Lal Sharma, who recently resigned from the Congress […]
PC activist falls off a moving vehicle during electioneering
Srinagar: A 37- year old activist of Peoples Conference (PC) was injured critically after he fell from a moving vehicle near Bakhihaker in Handwara area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Tuesday afternoon. Reports said that the man identified as Mushtaq Ahmad Mir son of Ghulam Mohammad Mir, a resident of Bhawan Watser, Rajwar suddenly […]
JKNPP takes on Guv’s admin, says security of its leaders withdrawn
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party Tuesday said the Governor administration’s decision to withdraw and downgrade security of its top leaders, including five candidates who are fighting the Lok Sabha polls, was against the democratic norms. The JPNPP alleged that the move has put a break on the free movement of the leaders […]
1994 ‘Kupwara massacre’: SHRC seeks latest status of investigation
Srinagar: The State Human Rights Commission has sought a latest status of investigation into the ‘massacre’ at Kupwara on 27 January 1994 and warrant against the accused army personnel including then lieutenant G D S Bakshi. Police had filed FIR (19/1994) under RPC sections of 302 (murder), and 307 (attempt to murder) police at station […]
Seven years on, vital Shopian bridge awaits completion.
Shopian: Despite the passage of seven years, a vital bridge on Vishawrivulet inReshinagri area of Shopian district awaits completion. Locals said that construction work on the bridge, which was started in year 2011, is still incomplete due to government apathy exposing dozens of villages in Shopian-Kulgam belt to immense hardships. Besides connecting many parts of […]
Death of 22-year old woman: SKIMS denies negligence by docs, says ‘no blood mismatch’
Srinagar: Sheri Kashmir Institute of Medical Science (SKIMS) Monday denied any negligence by its doctors in the death of a woman allegedly due to a blood ‘mismatch’. The family members of the victim, 22-year old Mir Anjum, a resident of Srinagar’s Bemina, had accused that she was infused a “wrong” blood group instead of O […]
BJP playing with fire, Mehbooba on tinkering with special status
Srinagar: The BJP should not play with fire when it comes to the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti said on Monday and warned that abrogating Article 370 would lead to freedom for the state from India. “If you free Jammu and Kashmir from Article 370, you will free the state […]
BJP wants to hoodwink voters over Article 370: Tarigami
Cong says special status to J-K 'permanent'
Srinagar:CPI(M) leader Mohammad YousufTarigami Monday said BJP’s inclusion of abrogating Articles 370 and 35A in its manifesto was another exercise by the saffron party to hoodwink the voters ahead of the LokSabha elections. The Jammu and Kashmir unit of the Congress also hit out at the BJP over the issue, saying the special status granted […]
