Kashmir freedom movement is indigenous: JRL
Terming the pro-freedom struggle as indigenous, resistance leadership Monday said ‘terrorism and freedom movement are poles apart’. Pro-freedom leadership alleged that Indian agencies are desperate to malign movement and under well thought plan are drawing their policies to bring bad name to ongoing “freedom struggle” in Kashmir. The leaders alleged that Indian agencies under the […]
Opposition protests opening of Darbar move offices
Opposition Congress and Awami Itehad party (AIP) Monday protested the opening of Darbar move offices in Srinagar as their workers hit out on the roads to demonstrate against the anti-people policies of the government. Defying police restrictions dozens of AIP workers led by party chief and MLA langate, Er Rasheed, tried to gherao the civil […]
Army cites search ops to cancel ‘peace bus’
Authorities on Monday suspended the cross-LoC ‘Karvan-e-Aman’ bus service between Srinagar and Muzaffrabad due to ‘anti-militancy operation’ launched by army in north Kashmir’s Uri town. Reports said that 39 Muzaffrabad bound passengers in which 16 fresh and 23 returnees had to move back were not allowed to proceed towards the ‘Aman Setu’ connecting the two […]
Students protests being fomented, says IGP Kashmir
Inspector General of Police Kashmir Zone, Syed Javaid Mujtaba Geelani Monday said that outside elements are responsible for the student’s protests in Kashmir Valley. “Outside elements are fomenting trouble in campuses in Kashmir,” the IGP said during a media interaction here. He said that in Handwara some outside elements spent money and lured students, forcing […]
HC stays reinstatement of terminated doctor
The High Court, on Monday, stayed the judgement of its single bench about the reinstatement of a doctor, who was terminated by the government in 2015. The division bench of the court, comprising Chief Justice Bader Durez Ahmad and Justice Ali Muhammad Magray, stayed the single bench decision of the court where in Justice Yaqoob […]
Notorious drug peddlers held
Continuing its drive against the menace of drug abuse, police has arrested a drug peddler and recovered half a kilogram of charas from his possessions in Kupwara today, a police spokesman said. He said that acting on a specific information, Kupwara police apprehended a man identified as Fayaz Ahmad War son of Abdul Gani a […]
Cyber team to trace locales of ‘militant’s videos’
An expert cyber team has been dispatched to Kashmir Valley to ascertain the locations from where militants allegedly upload their videos on social networking sites. Highly placed sources said that the team of experts hails from Indian silicon city Bengaluru. Pertinently, scores of militant videos have gone viral while in a recent video, a band […]
Dead body recovered
Police recovered a male unidentified body from river Jehlum in Awantipora, a police spokesman said. He said that a police party of police station Awantipora fished out an unidentified male body from river Jehlum near Kachachkoot, on Saturday. After completing medico-legal formalities police has initiated inquest proceedings under section 174 CrPC to ascertain his identification […]
Current Chaos ‘failure of basic imaginations,’ says writer Nitasha Kaul
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Govt forgets to depute teachers in schools
The government schools set up in remote areas seem to have gone out of th focus area of the JK government as most of the schools in rural areas are craving for the teaching staff and other facilities. The development comes at a time when the government is beating drums about taking the education sector […]