Valley on the edge: Fresh orders from admin stokes speculation on state’s special status

Srinagar: Kashmir on Monday remained on the edge as fresh orders issued by Jammu and Kashmir administration officials stoked speculation about the possibility of the BJP-led government at the Centre taking a major decision with regard to the special status to the state. As uncertainty loomed in the Valley, mainstream political parties also started making […]
RPF officer behind letter on ‘deteriorating’ situation transferred: DG

New Delhi: The Railway Protection Force official in Budgam who had issued a controversial letter about “deteriorating situation” in Jammu and Kashmir has been transferred, RPF DG Arun Kumar said on Monday. In the letter, RPF Assistant Security Commissioner (Budgam) Sudesh Nugyal asked employees to stock ration for at least four months, store drinking water […]
Mehbooba proposes all parties meet to NC

Srinagar: Days after the Centre ordered rushing of around 10,000 central forces personnel to the Kashmir valley, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti asked NC president Farooq Abdullah to convene an all-party meeting in Jammu and Kashmir to discuss the prevailing situation. Kashmir on Monday remained on the edge as fresh orders issued by state administration officials […]
Yes we should meet, says Farooq

Srinagar: Immediately after PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Monday sought help from her rival party National Conference’s patriarch Farooq Abdullah to present a united front against the Centre’s rumoured plans to scrap Article 35A, the latter said that they were calling an all-party meeting within two or three days to discuss the issue. “I am […]
Adding fuel to rumor mills: Zonal SPs asked to provide list of mosques in Srinagar

Srinagar: A fresh order directing the five zonal superintendents of police to provide the list of mosques in the city and its management committees has added to the speculation about some major decision in the offing regarding Jammu and Kashmir’s special status. “Please provide details of mosques and their managements falling without your respective jurisdictions […]
Farooq seeks audience with PM: Says will apprise him about J-K situation

Srinagar: National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah along with his party members has sought an appointment with Prime Minister Narendra Modi to apprise him about the present situation in Jammu and Kashmir, in the backdrop of the Centre’s move to send 100 additional companies of Central Armed Paramilitary Forces to the Valley. Abdullah and two NC […]
Our agenda is delimitation, assembly polls, not Article 35 A: BJP

Srinagar: Trying to put all the speculations to rest about the abrogation of article 35 A J&K unit of Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) Monday said that its primary agenda in the Core Group Meeting scheduled to be held in Delhi on Tuesday will be to pitch hard for the delimitation of the assembly seats and […]
Despite assurances abandoned school buildings left un-utilized
Srinagar: The J&K government seems to have shelved the process for putting to use all the school buildings which were left abandoned in the school education department over the past five years. Earlier, the government had planned to handover these buildings to various government departments and put them under use for various purposes. “All the […]
Tragedy: Injured in Pak firing, 10-day-old baby dies in Poonch
Jammu: A 10-day-old baby, injured in heavy shelling by Pakistani troops along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district, died at a hospital on Monday, police said. The infant, his mother Fatima Jan (35) and another civilian Mohammad Arif (40) were injured when mortar shells fired by Pakistan hit their village in Shahpur sector […]
NIA ‘arrests’ JeM member from Jammu
Srinagar: The NIA said it arrested a member of the banned Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) on Monday in a case related to a conspiracy by the outfit’s leadership to strengthen its base and organise terrorist acts in India. Muzaffar Bhat alias Muzaffar Ahmad Bhat (25), a resident of Tral in Pulwama district, was arrested from Central Jail […]