Srinagar, June 27 (KNS): Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) on Saturday urged the J&K government to do away with unnecessary delay in issuance of Persons Speaking Pahari (PSP) certificate to members of the community who would otherwise get deprived of benefits of reservation in fresh recruitment drive. In a joint statement issued to KNS, […]
Srinagar, June 27 (KNS): The family of Senior Hurriyat (G) leader Mehraj U din Kalwal has appealed Union Home Minister to shift him to Srinagar or Jammu jails due to health issues. His wife said that he has been admitted in hospital after he fell sick in Tihar Jail a week before . “My husband […]
Srinagar, June 27 (KNS): Vice President Awami National Conference (ANC) Muzafar Shah has called the issuing of Domicile certificates to non state subjects of J&K unconstitutional and illegal. ” The scrapping of Article 370 was an unconstitutional act of BJP Government and all the acts being followed after its scrapping it are illegal and undemocratic […]
New Delhi: Democratic Freedom Party leader Shabir Shah, arrested in two separate cases of alleged militant financing, Friday moved a Delhi court seeking a separate cell in Tihar central jail where he is lodged since 2017. In an application that is likely to come up for hearing on Saturday, advocate Qausar Khan submitted that Shah is […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Police on Saturday claimed to have arrested two militant associates from whose possession narcotics worth around Rs 65 crore and arms were recovered in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district. The duo was arrested in the frontier district by Kupwara police along with Army, J&K Police tweeted this afternoon. Police said that that […]
Srinagar: The transporters operating Jammu and Ladakh services from Srinagar on Saturday demanded authorities to allow them to resume their services and said that they will follow the guidelines in letter and spirit. The Srinagar-Jammu-Ladakh Taxi Services Owners and Drivers Union Tourist Recception Centre headed by Waseem Ashraf Bhat attempted to stage a protest today, […]
Srinagar: A 70-year-old woman from Sopore area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district tested positive for the novel coronavirus, a day after her death at a hospital here. Dr Nazir Choudhary, Medical Superintendent Shri Maharaja Hari Singh (SMHS) hospital, told a local news gathering agency, Global News Service (GNS) that the septuagenarian died last night. Admitted […]
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday said he would become the ambassador of the Kashmiri people to raise their issues. Pakistan has been unsuccessfully trying to drum up international support against India for withdrawing Jammu and Kashmir’s special status on August 5, 2019 and bifurcating it into two Union territories. India has categorically told […]
India’s COVID-19 tally crossed 5 lakh on Saturday with record single-day surge of 18,552 cases, according to data from the Health Ministry. The COVID-19 caseload zoomed to 5,08,953 while the death toll rose to 15,685 with 384 new fatalities being reported in the last 24 hours. India currently has 1,97,387 active cases of Covid-19. So far, 2,95,880 […]
After admitting that the world may have a Covid-19 vaccine within one year or even a few months earlier, the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday said that UK-based AstraZeneca is leading the vaccine race while US-based pharmaceutical major Moderna is not far behind. WHO Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan stated that the AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine […]