HC dismisses plea challenging detention of Mian Qayoom under PSA
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Friday dismissed a petition challenging the detention under the Public Safety Act (PSA) of Kashmir Bar Association president Mian Abdul Qayoom and held that preventive detention was not a punitive measure. Justice Tashi Rabstan, while dismissing the petition, said it was sans merit. “A law of preventive […]
Kashmir continues to reel under sub-zero temperatures
Srinagar: Kashmir continued to reel under sub-zero temperatures on Thursday, with Gulmarg recording a low of minus 9.0 degrees Celsius, a MeT department official said. Mercury in Pahalgam, the south Kashmir resort that serves as the base camp for annual Amaranth Yatra, dropped to minus 7.4 degrees Celsius from 9.3 degrees Celsius a night earlier, […]
Three JK leaders in detention since August booked under PSA
Srinagar: Three Jammu and Kashmir leaders, who have been in preventive detention since August last year, were on Thursday booked under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA), officials here said. The three are senior National Conference leader and former minister Ali Mohammed Sagar, former NC legislator Bashir Ahmed Veeri, and Sartaj Madani, the maternal uncle […]
Right to Internet not fundamental, country’s security equally important: R S Prasad
New Delhi: Misconception about the right to Internet being a fundamental right needs to be cleared, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said in Rajya Sabha on Thursday, emphasising that the country’s security was equally important. Communications, Information Technology, Electronics and Law and Justice Minister Prasad during the Question Hour said communication of ideas and views […]
Shalteng shootout: Two militants, One CRPF personnel killed
Srinagar: Two militants and a CRPF jawan were killed in a gunbattle on the outskirts of Srinagar city on Wednesday, police said. The encounter broke out after three motorcycle-borne militants opened fire on Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel posted at a mobile checking unit in Shalteng in Parampora, officials said. CRPF jawan Ramesh Ranjan […]
Hopeful that summer this year in Kashmir will be peaceful: DGP Dilbag Singh
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police Dilbag Singh said on Wednesday he was hopeful that the summer this year in the Valley will be peaceful. “We are hopeful that the situation will remain peaceful,” he told reporters here. Singh was responding to a question about any possibility of disturbance during the summer in […]
Two mainstream political leaders released from detention in JK
Srinagar: Senior politician and People’s Conference chairman Sajjad Lone and PDP leader Waheed Parra, close aide of detained former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, were released from preventive detention here on Wednesday, officials said. After the release of Lone and Parra, 13 political leaders now remain detained at the MLA hostel here which has been temporarily […]
