Srinagar : Member Parliament and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah on Wednesday said the report that Hurriyat leaders were ready for a dilaogue with the government was a “conjecture”. “As the governor has mentioned a few days back that the Hurriyat leaders are ready for talks with the Central government, it is […]
Agencies Srinagar: Northern Army Commander, Lieutenant General Ranbir Singh on Wednesday visited units deployed for security of Amarnath Yatra and reviewed the security arrangements on the axis of Baltal and Pahalgam ahead of Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s visit to Jammu and Kashmir. Lt Gen Singh was briefed by commanders on the ground of sound […]
SRINAGAR — Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday afternoon arrived in the summer capital, Srinagar, on a two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir to review the overall security situation and arrangements put in place for the annual pilgrimage to holy Amarnath cave shrine commencing July 1. Shah, who is on his maiden visit to Jammu […]
Srinagar : As part of the countrywide holding of deliberations, discussions and raising of reservations on the new National Education Policy, a team of National Independent Schools Alliance (NISA) of India and educationists visited Jammu and Kashmir. The team discussed the situation with eminent educationists, academicians and stakeholders in the state prominent among them being […]
SRINAGAR: Three youth suffered pellet injuries during clashes with the government forces on Wednesday at Nagbal in Tral area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Reports said that youth pelted the vehicles of government forces with stones soon after a gunfight broke out in Tral forests. The forces responded by firing tear gas and pellets to […]
Srinagar : Militant outfit Hizbul Mujahideen has rejected the statement of IGP Jammu of “HM being involved in drug trafficking”. In an e-mailed statement issued , HM spokesman Saleem Hashmi said that those persons who the police claims are associated with Hizb have no connection with the militant organisation. The spokesman said that Jammu police […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday said the militant killed in a gunfight with the security forces in Tral region of Pulwama district was affiliated with Zakir Musa group. The slain militant has been identified as Shabir Ahmad Malik from Nagbal Tral, said a police spokesman. “As per the police records, he was initially […]
Agencies New Delhi: The central government on Wednesday appointed Arvind Kumar, a 1984 batch IPS officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre, as the new director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB), while Samant Goel of the Punjab cadre was appointed chief of India’s external spy agency, Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW). Kumar is considered an expert on […]
Srinagar: A 25-year-old pregnant woman died under mysterious circumstance even as her family alleged gross medical negligence by the doctors at MCH hospital Sheerbagh Anantnag in south Kashmir. According to her family, the woman, Shobi Jan wife of Mohd Hussain Bhat of Sarnal Anantnag, complying with the advice by the doctors, walked into the hospital […]
Agencies New Delhi: Home Minister Amit Shah will arrive in Srinagar on Wednesday afternoon to review the overall security situation in Jammu and Kashmir and the security arrangements for the Amarnath Yatra in particular. This will be the Home Minister’s first visit to the state since assuming office. During his two-day visit, Shah will meet […]