Senior Congress leader and former finance minister P Chidambaram Thursday demanded release of PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti and others and appealed people to raise collective voice in this regard. Taking to micro-blogging site Twitter, Chidambaram tweeted, “We must all raise our collective voice and demand that Ms Mehbooba Mufti be released forthwith and all those […]
The family of senior pro-freedom leader Syed Ali Geelani on Thursday refuted rumors that ailing Geelani is infected with Covid-19. Talking to Kashmir News Service (KNS), Naseem Geelani, younger son of ailing leader said that I’m shocked over why some miscreants spread lies regarding my father? “It is unfortunate that some miscreants are spreading unfounded […]
Chairman People’s Democratic Front ( PDF) Hakeem Yaseen has enjoined upon all mainstream political parties and civil society groups to evolve a common consensus about the growing demand for restoration of statehood to jammu and kashmir. He said main focus should be on restoration of constitutional gaurantees on exclusive rights of its permanent residents on […]
A 10-yr old minor who was drowned yesterday during bath in Jhelum in north Kashmir’s Uri was fished out on Thursday. According to SDPO Uri Junaid Wali, a minor namely Moomin Javed son of Javed Chalkoo was drowned while taking a bath in Jhelum River in Uri on Wednesday afternoon. He said soon after the […]
Even after re-imposition lockdown on Eid ul Adha, there are no signs that the curve of pandemic is going to flatten in Kashmir valley. Strange but true, authorities have typically moved one step forward two step backward to control coronavirus spread especially in Srinagar city. Administration allowed people to mingle freely and go to picnic […]
Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) president Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari on Thursday strongly condemned the killing of Sajad Ahmad Khanday, Sarpanch of Vessu-Qazigund in south Kashmir. In a statement issued here, Bukhari observed that violence in any of its manifestations is not going to yield anything for the people except for death and destruction. “Today’s cowardly attack on a grassroot level representative has added […]
The three-time Member of Parliament from Ghazipur and a former Union Minister Manoj Sinha, who has been now appointed as the lieutenant governor of Jammu and Kashmir, has also been a front runner for the post of Uttar Pradesh chief minister after the Bharatiya Janata Party won the state assembly elections in 2017. The IIT-BHU […]
New Delhi : India saw a single-day increase of 56,282 cases taking the country’s COVID-19 tally to 19,64,536 on Thursday, while the recoveries have surged to 13,28,336 and comprise 67.62 per cent of the total caseload, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The death toll due to COVID-19 climbed to 40,699 with 904 new […]
New Delhi: When the Narendra Modi government scrapped Article 370 for Jammu and Kashmir on 5 August last year, one of its marquee promises was 50,000 government jobs for Kashmiri youth within three months of the decision. A year on, however, only 4,300 of those jobs have been given out, ThePrint has learnt. Soon after the […]
New Delhi: Girish Chandra Murmu’s inability to fill in the “political vacuum” created after the formation of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, his stand on restoration of 4G internet, and the “dysfunction” in the civic administration led to his resignation as the Lieutenant Governor (L-G), ThePrint has learnt. On Thursday, the government appointed former […]