NC MLA Shameema Firdous Blames BJP,RSS For Killing Of 2 Workers

NC MLA Shameema Firdous Blames BJP,RSS For Killing Of 2 Workers

SRINAGAR — Senior National Conference (NC) leader and MLA from Habba Kadal constituency Shameema Firdous on Friday alleged hand of Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) and RSS in the killing of two of her party workers. NC’s women wing leader Shameema Firdous addressed a press conference here, a day after two of her workers were shot […]

Municipal poll : Bar supports JRL’s shutdown call for Oct 8

Municipal poll  : Bar supports JRL’s shutdown call for Oct 8

Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar association has extended its support to the shutdown call of Joint Resistance Leadership for October 8, Monday and asked the lawyers to abstain from work. The four phase municipal polls are scheduled to begin on October 8 in Jammu and Kashmir. A spokesperson of the Bar on […]

Municipal Polls: J&K govt orders official holiday on Oct 8 in poll-bound areas

Municipal Polls: J&K govt orders official holiday on Oct 8 in poll-bound areas

Srinagar: J&K government on Saturday announced public holiday in areas going to the municpal polls. According to the order issued by GAD, “Public holiday shall be observed within the limits of the respective Municipal Corporations/Councils/Committees on account of Muncipal Elections-2018, on the date of polls as per the dates indicated…” The poll dates in Kashmir […]

16 army para commandos injured in road accident

16 army para commandos injured in road accident

Srinagar : Sixteen army men were injured in a road accident in Kanipora village of south Kashmir’s Shopian district on Saturday. A police official said that a private truck ferrying the army men of 23 PARA to Balpora base camp skidded off the road in Kanipora village, causing injuries to 16 soldiers. Reports said that […]

20 drug peddlers detained in J&K’s Doda: Police

20 drug peddlers detained in J&K’s Doda: Police

Twenty alleged drug peddlers were taken into preventive custody in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district, police said Saturday. They were detained on the directions of the deputy commissioner of Doda. Most of them are residents of Doda, Thathri, Bhalla and Bhadarwah, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Doda, Shabir Ahmad Malik, said. He said they were […]

Opening of Kartarpur corridor will remain pending if there are no talks: Pakistan

Opening of Kartarpur corridor will remain pending if there are no talks: Pakistan

The opening of the Kartarpur border crossing for Sikh pilgrims will remain pending if there are no talks between India and Pakistan, the Foreign Office said Thursday, asserting that dialogue is the only way forward to resolve issues and disputes between the two countries. Foreign Office spokesperson Muhammad Faisal told reporters that Pakistan “could only […]

Weapon heist : Lawmaker Aijaz Mir alleges police harassment

Weapon heist : Lawmaker Aijaz Mir alleges police harassment

Srinagar: The Peoples Democratic Party lawmaker from Wachi constituency of Shopian district Aijaz Ahmad Mir on Thursday alleged that the Munshi of Rajbagh Police Station was compelling the families of his former Personal Security Officers to speak against him in the “weapon heist case”. Taking to Facebook, Mir alleged that a policeman abused him while […]

Civil secretariat to close on October 26

Civil secretariat to close on October 26

As part of bi-annual Darbar move, the Civil Secretariat, seat of Jammu and Kashmir government, along with other offices will close here at the end of this month and reopen in the winter capital Jammu next month. An order issued here by the General Administration Department (GAD) said: “The offices, as indicated at Annexures ‘ […]