Reacting to Centre’s decision to deploy additional 100 companies of security forces in the Kashmir valley, former chief minister and president of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday said Jammu and Kashmir is a political problem which cannot be solved by military means. The decision of deployment of additional 10,000 troops has […]
Traffic was suspended on 434-km Srinagar-Leh highway due some repair work, officials said. A traffic police official said the traffic suspended on the highway since after an information was received from Beacon authorities that some immediate repair work was being carried out, he said.
Srinagar: A woman was killed while her son suffered injuries after a landslide hit a residential house in Doda district on Saturday. The landslide also left at least 25 sheep dead. The incident occurred in Baggar area of Tehsil Assar in the mountainous district today morning. Meanwhile, reports said that as many as 100 sheep and goats died […]
An Afghan official says at least three police officers were killed when a Taliban suicide bomber targeted a district police headquarters in eastern Ghazni province. Ahmad Khan Serat, provincial police chief’s spokesman, says the explosion on Saturday morning in the Ab Band district also wounded 12 policemen. He says the Taliban, who control much of […]
Srinagar : A top commander of Jaish-e-Muhammad militant outfit among two killed in a gunfight with the counter insurgent forces on Saturday in south Kashmir’s Shopian district. A police spokesman in a statement said that on a credible input, a cordon and search operation was launched jointly by police and security forces in Banday Mohalla […]
Lucknow: BSP supremo Mayawati on Friday attacked Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan for his sexist remark against MP Rama Devi in the Lok Sabha, saying he should not only apologise in Parliament but to all women. “The indecent language used by Azam Khan, an SP MP from Uttar Pradesh, against a woman presiding officer in […]
Development is the key word of Governor’s administration in J&K State. They have decided to make visible changes on ground in J&K State with equal development of all the three regions. 53 major infrastructure projects funded by ADB under Jammu & Kashmir Urban Sector Development Investment Programme (JKUSDIP) were taken up at a cost of […]
Srinagar, Jul 26 (KNS): State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has directed to the state government to register a case in the killing of Junaid Ahmad Khuroo, who died in police custody and also provide a compensation of Rs five lakh in favour of the family of the deceased. In the case titled Abdul Qayoom Khurro […]
Tangmarg, Jul 26 (KNS): Scores of people working as labourers in Tangmarg area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district Friday staged a protest against the Mining and Geology department for issuing tenders for Nallah ferozpora to collect the material from it. The protesting labourers expressed their resentment and termed the decision taken by Mining and Geology […]
The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed a plea seeking a direction to the Centre to declare “Vande Mataram” the national anthem, on par with “Jana Gana Mana”, or the national song. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar said it finds no reason to entertain this petition while […]