Water shortage sparks protest in Sopore village
Residents of Amargrah area of Sopore in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Wednesday staged protest demonstration and kept Srinagar-Sopore National Highway blocked for long time over water scarcity in the area. A large number of locals, especially women, raised slogans against Public Health Engineering (PHE) department and also blocked road for traffic movement and alleged that they […]
Joint Resistance Leadership calls for UN march on Friday
Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL)comprising Syed ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yaseen Malik, on Wednesday have called for a shutdown and march to the UN office on Friday, July 21 to protest against the “killings of Kashmiris, especially the genocide of our youth by government forces”. While appealing the people from all walks of […]
Congress attacks government over lynchings in name of cow
The Leader of Opposition in the Upper House and former JK Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday attacked the government over incidents of lynching in the name of cow protection. While taking part in a discussion in the Rajya Sabha on the issue of mob lynching , Azad alleged that those attacking Dalits and […]
Tral returns to normalcy after four consecutive days of shutdown
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Pakistan lodges protest with India over ‘ceasefire violations’
Pakistan Foreign Office on Wednesday lodged protest with India over the killing of two civilians in “intense unprovoked shelling by Indian troops” from across the Line of Control (LoC) in the sectors of Pakistan administered Kashmir (PaK), Pak media reports said. Pakistan Foreign Office summoned Indian Deputy High Commission JP Singh and condemned the “unrelenting, […]
Mirwaiz urges India, Pak to end LoC violence, resolve Kashmir
Chairman Hurriyat Conference (M) Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Wednesday expressed concern over the escalation of violence along the LoC and asked India and Pakistan to demonstrate the “maturity” to resolve the Kashmir issue peacefully. In a statement issued here, Mirwaiz said that the “root cause” of tension, violence and bitterness between the two nuclear neighbours is […]
LoC flare-up: Injured JCO succumbs
Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) Shashi Kumar, who was injured yesterday in border firing by Pakistan at Nowshera’s Kalal, has succumbed to his injuries today, reports said. JCO Shashi Kumar was injured in Pakistan firing yesterday in Nowshera’s Kalal. Pertinently, a soldier was killed in Pakistani firing in Nowshera area of Rajouri, a defence spokesman said […]
Union Government’s claim of J-K’s improved situation is misleading: Chidambaram
Senior Congress leader and former Union Home minister P. Chidambaram on Wednesday said that the Centre’s claim of Jammu and Kashmir’s situation being improved is misleading. He said that the Centre should disclose the strategies of bringing normalcy in the state. “Since July 10, casualties have been reported everyday from Jammu and Kashmir. Eight pilgrims, […]
Air India Boeing 747 lands on Srinagar Airport for first time
Air India Boeing 747 also known as queen of the sky today landed at the Srinagar Airport for the first time during a trial run, sources said. Air India will operate the Boeing 747 in the Hajj 2017 operations directly from the Srinagar Airport to Jeddah Airport in Saudi Arabia. According to the sources, Hajj […]
Yatri from Madhya Pradesh dies in south Kashmir, toll touches 48
A 60-year-old pilgrim from Madhya Pradesh died on his way back from the Amarnath shrine last evening, officials said today. The deceased has been identified as Romeshwar Patidar and he died died at Pissu Top, on his way back from the cave to Nunwan base camp in Pahalgam last evening, a police official said. He […]
