Valley’s Biz Community launches week long protest programme against attack on Article 35-A

Valley’s Biz Community launches week long protest programme against attack on Article 35-A

Srinagar :The business community of Kashmir on Wednesday launched its week-long protest programme with a silent protest march to “protect” Article 35-A from any onslaughts. Several business bodies took part in the silent protest march from Residency Road to Press Enclave here. President of Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Javid Ahmad Tenga said the […]

Washington Post India bureau chief awaits permission to report on Kashmir as special permit delayed

Washington Post India bureau chief awaits permission to report on Kashmir as special permit delayed

Washington Post’s India bureau chief Annie Gowen has been denied permission to report on Kashmir, she tweeted on Tuesday. The Government of India recently asked foreign correspondents to seek permission in writing for travelling anywhere in Jammu and Kashmir, a move reminiscent of the early 1990s when the Indian government made it impossible for foreign […]

Fresh batch of 670 pilgrims leaves for Amarnath

Fresh batch of 670 pilgrims leaves for Amarnath

Srinagar : A batch of 670  pilgrims left Jammu on Wednesday to perform the ongoing Amarnath Yatra. They left the Bhagwati Nagar Yatri Niwas in an escorted convoy of 17 vehicles and included yatris going to the Baltal and Pahalgam base camps, an official said. The 60-day long annual Amarnath Yatra which started on June 28 […]

Punjab driver held with poppy in Budgam

Punjab driver held with poppy in Budgam

Srinagar : Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday claimed to have arrested a driver of a vehicle with four kilograms of poppy straw in central Kashmir’s Budgam district. Balvinder Singh of Hoshiarpur, Punjab was arrested after  approximately 4 kilograms of poppy straw was recovered from his truck during routine checking  of vehicles, a police spokesman said. An […]

Slain Barzulla militant laid to rest at ancestral graveyard

Slain Barzulla militant laid to rest at ancestral graveyard

Srinagar : Hundreds of people late last night took part in the last rites of Barzulla militant whose mortal remains were brought form frontier district of Kupwara yesterday after over a month of his death. Hundreds of people, including men, women and children hit the streets in old Barzulla when body of Mudasir Ahmad Bhat was […]

Banihal Haji dies in Medina road accident

Banihal Haji dies in Medina road accident

Srinagar : A Haji from Jammu region died in a road accident in the holy city of Medina on Wednesday morning, said reports. Reports said that Shamas din Wani (Cover number JKF-13844-2-0) of Bankoot, Banihal was crushed to death by a speeding vehicle near Masjid Nabvi early today morning. He was shifted to Ansar Hospital Medina […]

Searches after militant attack on shopian army camp

Government forces have sealed many villages in chillipora area of shopian district on Tuesday night after militants conducted an attack on RR camp there. Earlier police said that militants attacked the RR camp at chillipora shopian with grenade and also fired several shots in the direction of the camp.police said that they have no reports […]

Slain Barzulla militant’s body exhumed, handed over to family

Slain Barzulla militant’s body exhumed, handed over to family

Srinagar : The body of a militant from Barzulla was exhumed on Tuesday, after more than a month since he was buried near the Line of Control (LoC) in Tunga Top forest area of Kachama in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district. The militant Mudasir Ahmad Bhat was killed in a gunfight with government forces in Kachama forests on June 29. An official of […]

Army deployed to stop infiltration of Rohingyas: Rajnath

Army deployed to stop infiltration of Rohingyas: Rajnath

The Centre on Tuesday said that the Army has been deployed to stop Rohingya Muslims’ infiltration into the country and has also directed the states not to let them spread. “The Border Security Force (BSF) and the Assam Rifles are deployed to stop further infiltration of the Rohingyas,” Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh told the […]