Srinagar : A complete shutdown is being observed in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Friday for the seventh straight day against the killings of seven civilians and three militants on last Saturday. All shops and other commercial establishments are closed in town while public transport is off the roads. Heavy deployment of police and paramilitary […]
Srinagar : A senior leader of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, Muhammad Rafi Nannaji was detained by police from his residence in Srinagar on Friday. According to a spokesperson, a posse of policemen today morning arrived at Nannaji’s Natipora residence and detained him. He was lodged at Chanapora police station.
Lucknow:The Allahabad High Court Thursday rejected a petition seeking permission to offer ‘namaz’ at the disputed site of Babri Masjid while imposing a fine of Rs 5 lakh on the petitioner saying the appeal was filed for “cheap publicity”. Justices DK Arora and Alok Mathur of the Lucknow bench of the high court passed the […]
Aligarh (UP): Students of the Aligarh Muslim University held a candle light peace march to protest against the recent killing of seven civilians in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district. The students, led by leaders of the AMU Students Union, Wednesday evening wore black bands and carried placards which said ‘Kashmir is Bleeding’, ‘No More Hate’ […]
Srinagar : Government forces on Thursday launched a Cordon and search operation at Batagund area of Tral in south Kashmir. Reports said that a joint team of government forces have laid a siege in the area after receiving specific “specific inputs” from the area. The search operation in the area was going on when this […]
Srinagar : Police on Thursday foiled a protest rally of the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference taken out to protest against the recent civilian killings in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Scores of NC workers led by party general secretary Ali Muhammad Sagar took out a protest march from party headquarters at Nawai-Subh to Lal Chowk. […]
Srinagar: A day before the 40-day-long period of harsh winter ‘Chillai Kalan’ sets in, biting cold wave swept the Kashmir Valley on Thursday with further drop in the night temperatures. The ‘Chillai Kalan’ sets each year on December 21 and ends on January 30. Water bodies have already started freezing in the valley. Small fires […]
Srinagar : The Kashmir Economic Alliance President Haji Muhammad Yasin Khan has condemned the “abusive publicity of stunts” of the Deputy Mayor of Srinagar Municipal Corporation Sheikh Imran whereby he misbehaved with a team of doctors at a government hospital in the Srinagar. In a statement issued to KNS, a spokesman of the KEA said […]
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and National Conference (NC) chief Farooq Abdullah on Wednesday pitched for early elections to the state Assembly. Talking to reporters during a function at his residence, where two expelled senior PDP leaders — Basharat Bukhari and Peer Muhammad Hussain — joined his party on the day, Abdullah said: […]
Srinagar : A complete shutdown is being observed in Boniyar and Chandanwari areas of Uri in north Kashmir on Wednesday against the “murder” of a 25-year-old boy from Uranbowa Uri. Earlier, police said that body of the missing person identified as Azam Nazir Khan was found hanging with the ceiling in a building in Azad […]