In a bid to rein employees found involved in ‘anti-national’ activities, Government has begun the process to act tough which could lead to their dismissal of their services. Sources told KNS that J&K Government has constituted a panel to scrutinize and recommend cases for dismissal of services of those employees who were involved in ‘anti-national’ […]
A day after the Supreme Court disposed of a petition by Saifuddin Soz’s wife over his “illegal detention”, accepting the government’s submission that he was under no restrictions, the J&K Congress leader was stopped by the police as he tried to move out of his house in Srinagar. As mediapersons watched, police personnel pulled away the 83-year-old […]
The recent significant decision taken by JK Chief Secretary to bring the levels of pressure on the health infrastructure here will go a long way to streamline the process. The need was felt as despite fresh lockdown everyday hundreds of new positive cases are detected infected by Covid-19. The government said that referral hospitals […]
Almost a year after he was detained in the wake of the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019, People’s Conference chairman and former state minister Sajad Lone was released from house arrest on Friday. Lone took to Twitter to announce his release and said that jail was not a new experience for him but the latest […]
Srinagar: A Border Security Force soldier died of cardiac arrest during duty along the Line of Control in Mankote area of this district on Friday. They said constable R .Ravindra of 72 battalion BSF suffered the heart attack at Songali post in Mankote sector. The 43-year-old was shifted to nearby health facility where doctors declared […]
The editor of a south Kashmir based news portal, The Kashmiriyat, was summoned by Jammu and Kashmir police’s cyber cell in Srinagar on Friday for “unknown reasons.” In a statement, the Kashmiriyat said that Qazi Shibli “got a call from the Cyber Police station at around 2:15 PM on Thursday asking him to present himself” in the Cyber Police […]
Srinagar: Seven more deaths were reported in Jammu and Kashmir due to COVID-19 since last evening, taking the toll to 373, reported a local news agency, Global News Service (GNS). Four of the victims were from Srinagar, two from Pulwama while one, a 56-year-old, was from Jammu’s Shakti Shakti Nagar. All of the deaths from Srinagar […]
New Delhi: The CPI(M) on Thursday alleged that the government has “deliberately” chosen August 5 as the date of the bhoomi pujan ceremony for the Ram temple at Ayodhya as the “demolition” of Jammu and Kashmir and the rebuilding of the temple are both “core agendas of Hindutva forces”. Last year on August 5, the abrogation of […]
Lieutenant Governor, Girish Chandra Murmu and officers and the staff of the Raj Bhavan, accorded a warm send off to Sh. Rajnish Pran, who has served as Director, Special Security Force (SSF) at the Lt Governor’s Secretariat. The Lt Governor appreciated the conduct of the officer with which he performed his duties to oversee the […]
Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) president Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari on Thursday condemned the police action against veteran Congress leader and former union minister Prof. Saif-ud-Din Soz. In a statement issued here, Bukhari termed the restrictions on Prof. Soz as unwarranted and uncalled for when the J&K administration informed the Supreme Court that Mr. […]