Mercury soars to a record 43.3 degree Celsius in Jammu
Jammu city yesterday recorded this season’s highest temperature at 43.3 degrees Celsius, the Met department announced on Sunday. “The maximum temperature was 43.3 degrees Celsius in Jammu on Saturday. This is the highest recorded here so far this season. The minimum temperature on Sunday was 25.2 degrees Celsius,” a Met official said. “Temperatures in Jammu […]
Editorial: Unemployment: What next ?
With nearly six lakh educated youth striving to get employment, the state’s response should have been much better than what it has shown over the years. Even the figures shown in the last economic survey reveal that unemployment rate in Jammu and Kashmir is higher than the average national unemployment rate. Interestingly, Jammu and Kashmir […]
Er Rasheed condemns NIA raids
Condemning the NIA raids on pro-resistance leaders and few prominent businessmen, AIP supremo and MLA Langate, Er Rasheed, on Saturday, said that all such moves are aimed at making Kashmiris surrender their rights. However, Centre needs to learn that Kashmiris want to resolve the Kashmir dispute and would never compromise their sentiments and aspirations. While […]
CM pays tributes to 2 army jawans
Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti has paid rich tributes to the two jawans of the army who were killed when a convoy in which they travelling was attacked at Lower Munda, Qazigund today. The Chief Minister has extended her heartfelt condolences to the bereaved families of slain soldiers. She has also conveyed her sympathies […]
NIA raids won’t deter us: JRL
The joint resistance leadership (JRL) Saturday while strongly condemning the raids by NIA said such raids won’t deter them from ‘pursuing the mission for freedom’. Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik, Saturday in a joint statement said that “Indian government is frustrated to the extent that they frame and arrest the […]
NIA raids houses of businessmen, resistance leaders across India
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Saturday raided more than 25 locations in Kashmir, Haryana and the New Delhi over the case of alleged funding received by resistance groups from Pakistan to fuel the unrest in Kashmir. After registering an FIR earlier this week, various NIA teams, which had been camping in the Valley for few […]
2 army men killed, 4 injured in militant attack
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Need to book perpetrators of terrorism: Jitendra Singh
Union Minister of state in Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), Jitendra Singh, said on Saturday that the government’s intent of restoring normalcy in the Kashmir Valley and bringing to book the perpetrators of terrorism is “quite clear”, hours after the NIA carried out raids to track terror funding. In a pre-dawn swoop, the National Investigation […]
Pakistan Army claims to have killed 5 Indian soldiers
Pakistani Army on Saturday claimed to have killed at least five Indian soldiers and injured many others while aggressively responding to shelling from across the restive Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir. “Unprovoked CFV (ceasefire violation) at Tatta Pani (sector) along (the) LoC violently responded,” said Maj-Gen Asif Ghafoor, chief of Pakistan […]
Will take people into confidence to resolve K-issue: Rajnath
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said the central government wants a permanent solution to the Kashmir problem by taking its people into confidence, and is moving ahead in that direction. “We want a permanent solution to the Kashmir problem and we will do that by taking Kashmiri people into confidence,” Singh said while […]
