Sagar pays tribute to Molvi Farooq
National Conference General Secretary Ali Muhammad Sagar Sunday paid tributes to Shaheed Mirwaiz Molvi Muhammad Farooq on his 27th death anniversary. A commemorative meeting presided by Ali Mohammad Sagar was organized at party headquarters Nawa e Subah today. “National Conference has been organizing this commemorative meeting every year and the party has always respected […]
Maulvies return to Valley after 10-day tour
A 10-days long tour for ‘Maulvies’ organised by Widdipura based RR Battalion has returned to valley, army spokesman said.. “20 Maulvies of North Kashmir went from Kashmir to Delhi-Jaipur-Ajmer from 10 May to 20 May 17. Today the tour was welcomed in a huge ceremony which was attented by hundreds of people including family […]
Nocturnal raid: 11 including a policeman arrested in Pulwama
Forces launched house to house nocturnal raids in Pulwama and it’s adjacent areas and arrested 11 persons including a policeman in the area,who according to Police are involved in stone pelting. During night forces cordoned off prichoo area of Pulwama district and searched many houses and arrested 8 persons In another raid forces searched many […]
Editorial: Failed city drainage
Modernity of any city is gauged by various parameters and drainage facilities are considered as one of the basic qualifying agents for achieving a developed status. However, if we talk of Srinagar City vis-à-vis its drainage facilities, the city may not be able to qualify for a full developed City status even for the next […]
Restriction in some parts of Srinagar
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Geelani cracks the whip, suspends Nayeem Khan
Syed Ali Geelani, the head of a faction of Hurriyat, on Saturday gave a strong signal that he would brook no misconduct by any of the constituents of his faction of Hurriyat when he suspended Nayeem Khan and his party from Hurriyat Conference. The move came after a national news channel aired a sting operation, […]
Er. Rashid drops a bombshell, says he was offered money to protest
Abdul Rashid Sheikh, commonly known as Engineer Rashid, of the Awami Itehaad Party, today dropped a bombshell saying that he was offered huge amount of money to create a ruckus on a range of issues, including demonetization, continuous LoC shelling, the refusal of New Delhi to hold talks with Pakistan, un-abetted human rights violations in Kashmir, […]
Congress feels deep concern ‘over the situation in the valley’
Having all but conceded the political ground to the BJP in New Delhi, senior Congress leaders on Saturday found an issue they feel that can at least make them visible: Kashmir. Its leaders expressed “deep concern” over the situation in Jammu and Kashmir as it held a meeting of its policy planning group on Jammu and […]
J-K board looks to reform its old style examination system
If all goes well, the J&K Board of School Education (BOSE) would completely transform its existing syllabi and scheme of question papers for the 10th and 12th class examinations. The move is aimed at re-structuring of examination system and merging the practical portion of exams with the theory papers by amending the weightage and pattern of […]
After 17 years in prison, a court declares a Kashmiri man innocent
Nearly seventeen years back Gulzar Ahmed Wani, a 28-year-old Phd scholar at Aligarh Muslim University, was taken into police custody by the police in Uttar Pradesh for what the police then called him an operative of Hizbul Mujahideen. Today he walked out of prison as a middle age man when a local court in Uttar […]
