J&K to get new governor in few weeks: Ram Madhav

J&K to get new governor in few weeks: Ram Madhav

Srinagar :Jammu and Kashmir will get a new governor later this month as the incumbent’s term ends after ten years in a couple of weeks, BJP general secretary Ram Madhav has said, according to a media report. “The government can think about the future, take what steps it thinks are best. I assume there will […]

One dead, several injured on Anantnag road accident

One dead, several injured on Anantnag  road accident

Srinagar : One person died and seven others were injured after a vehicle they were travelling on met with an accident in Srigufwara area of Bijbehara in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Monday. Reports said that a passenger cab skidded off the road and fell into Dadi canal in Khiram village today, resulting in injuries […]

Batamaloo gunfight over militants escape

Police said that they have called off Batamaloo gunfight after arresting two accomplishes of escaped militants and have recovered incriminating material. Police said that when security forces launched operation on Sunday morning hiding militants opened fire in which one cop Parwaiz Ahmad succumbed to his injuries and two other security personal were injured and being […]

Vacant posts in ICDS to be filled within a month: Secy Social Welfare

Vacant posts in ICDS to be filled within a month: Secy Social Welfare

SRINAGAR : Secretary Social Welfare, Dr Farooq Ahmad Lone, today directed the Mission Director, Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) to conduct Departmental Promotion Committee meeting at the earliest so that positions of supervisors (promotion Quota) are filled within one month. Dr Lone said that GOI India has asked states to fill vacancies at all the […]

Nehru not pandit as he ate beef, pork: BJP MLA

Nehru not pandit as he ate beef, pork: BJP MLA

Jaipur: Rajasthan BJP MLA Gyan Dev Ahuja has said that the country’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was not a ‘Pandit’ as he “ate beef and pork”. Often in the news for his contentious statements, the legislator from Ramgarh constituency of Alwar district blamed the Nehru-Gandhi family for all the social evils prevailing in the […]

Protests continue against mosque demolition in China

Protests continue against mosque demolition in China

Beijing: Chinese state media has defended the planned demolition of a mosque in the country’s north west, saying that no religion is bigger than the law even as thousands of ethnic Hui Muslims continued sit-in protests against the plan. Thousands of protesters thwarted attempts by officials in Wuzhong city on Thursday to demolish parts of […]

JKCSCC calls for state-wide shutdown on August 27 to protest onslaught on Article 35-A, 370

JKCSCC calls for state-wide shutdown on August 27 to protest onslaught on Article 35-A, 370

Srinagar : J&K Civil Society Coordination Committee on Saturday called for a state-wide shutdown on August 27 to protest “onslaught” on Article 35A and Article 370. Addressing press conference at a local hotel here, Deputy Grand Mufti, Nisar-ul-Islam and Awami National Conference president Muzafar Shah said that it was a collective responsibility of the people […]