Jammu and Kashmir administration on Wednesday foiled a crucial meeting of opposition mainstream leaders here at incumbent parliamentarian Dr. Farooq Abdullah’s Gupkar residence in Srinagar as no participant was allowed to reach senior Abdullah’s home, reported a local news agency, Kashmir News Observer (KNO). Unnamed sourced told the agency that the road leading to the […]
Former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today called the celebration of August 5 as hypocrisy while not even allowing the other leaders to discuss what is happening in J&K. “BJP displaying its hypocrisy. They can gather & celebrate. The rest of us can’t even meet to discuss what’s happening in J&K,” he said in a tweet. […]
Suspected militants hurled a grenade followed by firing on the government forces in Bonbazar area of South Kashmir’s Shopian district on Wednesday, reported a local news agency, Global News Service (GNS). An unnamed senior police officer told GNS that militants lobbed grenade followed by firing on the government forces, however, in this incident no loss […]
Two girls died while another suffered critical injuries after a vehicle mowed down them while they were walking on road near Tulbagh area of saffron town Pampore here in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. The incident occurred on late Tuesday evening. Police sources told news agency KNT that a vehicle (JK13F-0346) hit three teen age girls […]
EVEN AS security has been stepped up on the eve of the first anniversary of the abrogation of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status under Article 370, a sarpanch was critically injured in a militant attack in Kulgam district on Tuesday. Two policemen were injured in a separate attack in Pulwama. According to police, militants barged into […]
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti’s daughter Iltija Mufti on Tuesday said it was not a coincidence that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was going to Ayodhya for the Ram temple ceremony on August 5. Iltija Mufti, in an interview with The Hindu, claimed this was an attempt to “obfuscate the reality and entire fallout” of the revocation of Jammu […]
Islamabad/New Delhi: In a provocative move, Pakistan on Tuesday unveiled its new political map showing the entire Jammu & Kashmir and parts of Gujarat as its territories, drawing the ire of India, which dismissed it as ridiculous assertions that have neither legal validity nor international credibility . “We have seen a so-called political map’ of Pakistan […]
A week after resigning as National Conference spokesman, former Cabinet minister Ruhullah Mehdi today said he would not contest elections again till the restoration of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status. “After the unconstitutional and undemocratic abrogation of Article 370, I will not give them satisfaction of legitimising it by contesting an Assembly election even if […]
Suspected militants attacked a police party in Pulwama district late Tuesday evening, injuring two personnel, reported a local news agency, Global News Service (GNS), quoting unnamed official sources. The sources told that the militants lobbed a grenade at the police party near Wanpora Pulwama, injuring head constable Khurshid Ahmad and SPO Ishfaq Ahmad. The duo […]
It has been a year since BJP Govt. scrapped J&K’s special status under Article 370 , 35A demoted the erstwhile state into two Union Territories. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah justified and defended the decision on the floor of the house, that it would end decades-long militancy, separatism and corruption […]