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 […]
Srinagar : Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Wednesday expressed strong resentment over unruly behavior of Deputy Mayor Srinagar with on duty doctor at Chest Disease Hospital , an associated hospital of Government Medical College Srinagar. It is now routine that different ward members, Panchs, Sarpanchs and now Deputy Mayor are routinely interfering in hospitals to […]
Srinagar: A BSF officer of the rank of ASI Wednesday shot himself with his service rifle in Mendhar area along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch. “ ASI Satpal Jaswal (49) of 72 BSF D Coy posted at forward area near Checka Gali in Sabra today at around 9:20 am shoots […]
Srinagar: An unabated cold wave continues in the Kashmir Valley on Wednesday, with Ladakh plunging into a deep freeze and Kargil recording minus 14.9 degrees Celsius. The minimum temperature was minus 2.8 in Srinagar, while it was minus 8.4 and minus 4.0 in Pahalgam and Gulmarg, respectively. Kargil was the coldest town at minus 14.9 […]