The voice calling and SMS services on prepaid mobile connections will be restored after more than five months of shutdown in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Saturday. Government spokesman Rohit Kansal told at a press conference in Jammu that the restricted 2G internet services will be restored on the postpaid SIM cards in Bandipora […]
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir administration on Tuesday announced the abolition of toll posts, including at Lakhanpur along Jammu-Pathankot highway, a move that will lead to a loss of Rs 1,500 crore to the exchequer annually. The decision of the abolishment of the toll tax from the New Year was welcomed by traders while industrialists termed […]
Appealing to people, particularly the youth, the separatist leader asked them to be “ready for a long and tough struggle”. Jammu and Kashmir-based separatist Syed Ali Geelani has cautioned New Delhi that any change in special status of Jammu and Kashmir will be resisted to maximum. He asked people to be ready for a “long […]
By Muzamil Ahmad Bhat Srinagar: An emergency all party meeting was held at the residence of Farooq Abdullah and it was unanimously decided that there would be a united response to any attempt by New Delhi to dilute special status of J&K State. Farooq Abdullah in a press conference after the meeting read the all […]
Islamabad: The Pakistan Army has denied the Indian claim about action by Pakistani army regulars and militants across the Line of Control and that their bodies were lying on the Indian side. The Indian Army Saturday said that it has foiled an attack by Pakistan’s Border Action Team (BAT) on a forward post along the […]
Jammu and Kashmir’s Anti-Corruption Bureau has asked former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti to clarify if she had endorsed some controversial appointments made to the J&K Bank. In a letter addressed to Mufti, chief of Peoples Democratic Party whose party was in power from 2015 until its collapse last year, the Anti-Corruption Bureau […]
Panic gripped the Kashmir Valley after the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) government’s security advisory on Friday for tourists and pilgrims of Amarnath Yatra to curtail their pilgrimage. The tourists and the Amarnath Yatra pilgrims started leaving the Kashmir Valley on Saturday, even as J&K Governor Satya Pal Malik said there was no need to panic. […]
A day after Indian Army foiled an infiltration attack by Pakistan’s BAT team in Kashmir’s Keran sector, similar terror bids by the neighbouring country has been foiled in three more areas. The terror bids were foiled in Gurez, Machil, and Tangdhar. There have been four infiltration bids by the Pakistan Army and terrorists in one […]
Home minister Amit Shah held a meeting with National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba on Sunday days after security was reinforced across theKashmir valley after a terror threat, ANI reported. The Jammu and Kashmir administration had cut short the Amarnath Yatra on Friday and asked pilgrims and vacationers to leave the […]
By our reporter: Former Chief Minister and PDP Chief Mehbooba Mufti have been placed under house arrest from Saturday evening, reports said. A Senior PDP leader told this reporter that she has been under house arrest and has been barred from going to Rajouri and Poonch as she was scheduled to move out. Earlier Mehbooba […]