On Sheikh’s 112th birthday, progeny stay silent at mausoleum
Srinagar: For the first time in this decade, the National Conference (NC) leaders didn’t talk about the life of the party’s founder Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah at his mausoleum on his 112th birthday on Tuesday. Hundreds of the NC workers left the mausoleum disappointed as both party President Farooq Abdullah and his son Omar Abdullah didn’t […]
Kashmir situation reflects our collective failure, says IPS officer
Srinagar: An Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, Shailendra Mishra who is serving as a Senior Superintendent of Police in Srinagar, has stirred a hornets’ nest by questioning those who have been celebrating the killing or more than 200 militants in the ongoing ‘operation all out’ in South Kashmir. Mishra, who is a trained doctor and […]
Operation against militants will continue, says Bipin Rawat
Srinagar: Indian Army Chief on Tuesday said that operations against militants in Kashmir will continue. “Operations in Kashmir are going on continuously and we an improvement in the situation in the Valley. Such operations will go on,” Rawat told reporters on the sidelines of a ceremony at Suratgarh military station. In an apparent reference to […]
Police arrests accomplice of slain militants
Srinagar: Police Tuesday said that after pursuing the leads available at Qazigund encounter one individual Rashid Ahmed Allai son of Farooq Ahmed of Hamzapora Sangam Bijbehera was arrested from Janglatmandi maternity hospital in South Kashmir with a Chinese pistol and live cartridges yesterday night. Pertinently, this individual was missing since last two days from his […]
Police tries an outreach in South Kashmir
Shopian: With scores of families appealing their dear ones to return homes, the Jammu and Kashmir Police here are putting every effort to bring the local militants home. Reports said that top police officials held a meeting with the families of those who have joined the militant ranks and assured them that the doors […]
Youth injured after forces fire on protestors in Qazigund
Srinagar: A protesting youth was seriously injured when government forces opened fire on them at Nusu, Badragund and Bonigam villages in Qazigund area, the scene of last night’s gunfight between militants and the forces which left three militants and a security man killed besides, injuring two others. The injured youth who has been identified […]
‘When Shashi Kapoor had lunch with us on banks of Sindh’
Srinagar: When Shashi Kapoor first met Gulam Muhammad Wangnoo, in the eighties he promised him that he will be back. A year later, he kept his promise and returned and continued to stay with Wangnoos on their houseboat in Nigeen Lake. Last time he visited Kashmir in 1988 for a film shoot, he brought his […]
‘Medical Negligence’ : Baby suffers ‘grievous injuries’ during delivery process at L D Hospital
Srinagar: Lalla Ded hospital is in news once again and this time too for wrong reasons. Reports said that on Friday last week, a baby boy while being delivered fell on the cemented floor of the labour room resulting in serious injuries to the child. The scene that occurred in the labour room while Kulsooma […]
Nine years on, authorities fail to repair damaged Watchi Bridge
Shopian: With the passage of nine years, the administration has utterly failed to reconstruct the damaged Watchi bridge in South Kashmir’s Shopian district. The locals accused the administration of ignoring their plights, saying that from last nine years, the people here are being forced to take long and alternate routes to reach the other side […]
R&B’s ‘blue-eyed’ contractor uses ‘illegally extracted material’ for road widening
Anantnag: Though the High Court has imposed ban on the extraction of sand and boulders, the Roads and Building (R&B) department is allegedly paving a way to the ‘blue-eyed’ contractor to extract the material from Nallah Sandran in Kapran area of Verinag, being used for the road widening. The continuous extraction of sand and […]
