All the accused were in contact with Pak handler Police claimed to have busted a finance network of Lashkar Toiba by arresting 6 people in Jammu district on Saturday. A senior Police officer told GNS that on 19th July, a team of SOG Jammu apprehended one Mubashir Farooq Batt son of Farooq Ahmed Batt resident […]
Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) Kupwara on Saturday distanced itself from statement of its activist Javed Qureshi and said party will take tough action against his repeated breach of protocol in coming days. Talking to Kashmir News Service (KNS), BJP district president Kupwara Mohammad Shafi clarified that whatever Javed Qureshi is disseminating is “anti-Kashmir” and “anti-BJP”. […]
Jammu and Kashmir National Conference on Saturday rejected the allegations of Chief Secretary BVR Subrahmanyam as baseless, politically motivated and intended to evade the genuine concerns of the public on the failures of J&K administration on every conceivable matrix. In a statement to KNS, Party’s Spokesperson Imran Nabi Dar said that it can’t be a […]
Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) senior leader and former minister Ghulam Hassan Mir on Saturday censured the political remarks made by BVR Subrahmanyam, the Chief Secretary of J&K UT. In a statement issued to KNS, Mir said that the comments passed by the Chief Secretary tantamount to breach of service rules and are legally and ethically […]
Srinagar: Body of a youth was found in Romshi Nallah at Chewakalan village of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Saturday, officials said. An official told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that locals spotted a body in Nallah Romshi at Chewakalan village and accordingly contacted concerned police station. He said police team reached the spot and […]
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday paid glowing tributes to Kashmir’s renowned educationist and scholar Agha Ashraf Ali on his sad demise. In a condolence message, the party spokesman termed Aga Ashraf an institution in himself and is credited worldwide for enlightening and educating generations of students and teachers. “Kashmir today lost one of its […]
Miffed with New Delhi’s repeated “lip-service”, the non-migrant Kashmiri Pandits on Saturday issued a “last communication” to the Centre and threatened to sit on “fast-unto-death”. “Time has come for me, as president of the Kashmiri Pandit Sangarash Samiti, the representatives of the non-migrant Kashmiri pandits, Kashmiri Hindus living in Kashmir, to go on fast-unto-death to […]
A 21-year old man allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in Utrasoo area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Saturday, reported a local news agency, Kashmir News Observer (KNO). This is the sixth case of suicide in the past eight days in Kashmir. An unnamed official told the agency that the man, whose name has […]
Noted educationist and scholar, Dr. Agha Ashraf Ali passed away late last night at his residence in Srinagar at 11:45 pm. He was 98. Born on 18 October 1922 in Nawa Kadal area of downtown Srinagar in Qizalbash family, Mr. Agha Ashraf grew up in upper-class feudal household with a rich legacy of excellence, reported […]
Srinagar: Authorities on Saturday warned all unaided private schools of “strict action” including de-recognition in case they terminate or withheld salaries of staff during the ongoing lookdown over covid-19 pandemic in Kashmir Valley. “It is impressed upon all the unaided recognised Private Schools of Kashmir Division to adhere with the instructions of providing un-interrupted salaries […]