Agencies Islamabad : Pakistan has told India that it will not open its airspace for commercial flights until New Delhi removes its fighter jets from forward IAF airbases, Pakistan”s Aviation Secretary Shahrukh Nusrat has informed a parliamentary committee. Pakistan fully closed its airspace on February 26 after the Indian Air Force (IAF) fighter jets struck […]
Srinagar : Traders, civil society members and fruit growers on Friday held a protest at Sopore fruit mandi to demand revocation of order restricting the movement of vehicles on Jammu-Srinagar national highway. The protesters were holding placards and banners carrying messages like ‘we love yatris’, ‘lift the ban on highway’ and ‘save fruit industry of […]
Srinagar : On Friday morning, authorities imposed restrictions in various parts of Downtown Srinagar ahead of the strike called by a separatist party Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL). Reports said that mixed contingents of forces including Jammu and Kashmir police and CRPF have been deployed in Gojwara, Naqshbandh Sahib Shrine and Shahmi Pora areas of the […]
Islamabad: Experts from India and Pakistan will meet on Sunday at the Wagah border to discuss the draft agreement for finalising the modalities of the Kartarpur corridor and related technical issues, Pakistan Foreign Office said on Thursday. The corridor will connect Darbar Sahib in Pakistan’s Kartarpur with Dera Baba Nanak shrine in Gurdaspur district and […]
Srinagar: Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Chairman Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai on Thursday paid tributes to the martyrs of July 13, 1931, stating that 22 martyrs who fell to the bullets of Dogra forces, setting base for Kashmir’s “political struggle”. In a statement, Sehrai said, the martyrs had risen against a system that sustained itself on exploitation and denial of political […]
In the recent past many bureaucrats have tried to cut-short all those young educated people who have been hired by the government as on temporary basis for the higher education. They were unnecessarily harassed by the Babus without understanding the reality that most of them have now crossed their age limit and are doing the […]
Srinagar : Jammu and Kashmir government on Thursday announced summer break in schools falling in Kashmir valley and winter zone of Jammu division. “It is hereby ordered that all the government educational institutions and recognised private schools up to higher secondary level functioning in the Kashmir division and winter zone of Jammu division shall observe […]
Srinagar : Governor Satya Pal Malik emphatically told the reporters in Srinagar that no doubt security forces are working day and night in the smooth movement and security of Yatra but it is the local Kashmiri who makes the Amarnath Yatra a success. While reiterating the significance of local Kashmiris in making the annual Amaranth […]
Srinagar : Six people were injured in fresh dog attacks in border Town Uri sector of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Thursday morning. Reports said that six people became fresh victims of stray dogs today morning at Dawaran village of Uri. In Dawaran Uri, a group of stray dogs attacked and injured 6 people, including […]
Srinagar: Ghani Memorial Statdium in Rajouri Kadal area of the old city here has become first open air sports facility in the Shahr-e-Khas were flood lights have been installed. Advisors to Governor, K Vijay Kumar, Khurshid Ahmad Ganai and K K Sharma visited Rajouri Kadal where the newly installed facility of flood lights was jointly inaugurated by […]