SRINAGAR: A BJP worker was seriously injured in an attack in Budgam district of central Kashmir on Sunday triggering a string of resignations from party workers in the Valley. There have been around eight fresh resignations in the last 24 hours and 17 BJP workers have resigned in the past one month. Following the recent killing of BJP worker Wasim Bari, along with […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir Police’s cyber wing Sunday registered an FIR against unknown people for allegedly operating a fake Twitter account of Manoj Sinha, the newly-appointed lieutenant governor of the union territory. The account has been suspended but Tahir Ashraf, SP, incharge, Cyber Police Kashmir, said investigations are under way to determine the identities of […]
The attack on a BJP worker in Jammu and Kashmir’s Budgam district on Sunday has triggered fear among party’s Valley unit while several activists have ended their association with the party. To ensure their safety, the BJP has asked its leaders in the Valley not to leave their houses without security clearance. Suspected militants shot at Abdul […]
International think-tank International Crisis Group has asked New Delhi to “rethink” its approach to Kashmir and suggested restoration of statehood to J&K as a way to calm down tensions. Jammu and Kashmir was divided into two Union Territories on August 5 last year when its special status was scrapped. It is significant as at the time political parties of […]
At least twelve persons were injured after a vehicle they were traveling in skidded off the road and met an accident in Baderkund area of central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Monday, reported a local news agency, Kashmir News Observer (KNO). An unnamed official told the agency that a mini-bus carrying passengers en route Ganderbal skidded […]
Sopore police on Monday claimed to have arrested two militant sympathizers from apple town sopre in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district. According to police statement, Joint team of 22RR, SOG, CRPF 179, 92 BN and Sopore police laid naka at Darpora Bomai and arrested two militant associates. Police has identified them as Ishfaq Ahmad Mir son […]
A day after militants shot at and critically injured a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker in Ompora Budgam in central Kashmir, the 38-year-old succumbed to his wounds at Shri Maharaja Hari Singh hospital in Srinagar on Monday. The party worker, Abdul Hamid Najar, a resident of Ompora, was critically injured when militants fired upon him […]
Mystery shrouds the disappearance of the Army soldier, Shakir Manzoor, even as an undated unverified audio surfaced on social media in which a person, suspected to be a militant, claimed to have killed the abducted soldier and not returned the body. The authenticity of the purported audio message could not be ascertained. The speaker in […]
The social media is splashed with letters and videos of the BJP workers announcing their resignations or disassociation with the saffron party. While a fresh militant attack sparked four resignations of the BJP office-bearers from the central Kashmir’s Budgam district today, several other resignations, mostly of lower-rung workers from south Kashmir, were announced during the […]
Srinagar: IAS officer-turned-politician Shah Faesal Sunday removed from his Twitter bio his designation as the president of Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Movement (JKPM), a party he had founded after leaving the civil services in 2019. Although his party leaders maintain that the change in Faesal’s bio should not be seen as him quitting politics, the development has raised speculation […]