JAMMU: Ellaquai Dehati Bank (EDB), in association with NABARD and Priyadarshani Indra Mahila Block Society, Jammu, conducted a credit camp at village Dharp, Satwari here on Saturday, a spokesperson of the EDB said. This was a part of NABARD’s ambitious village Development Programme, which entails initiatives from financial inclusion and access to credit, infrastructure development […]
SRINAGAR: Condemnations continued to pour in Saturday against the army’s decision to close the Pathribal fake encounter case with the Mirwaiz Umar Farooq-led Hurriyat Conference announcing a week-long programme “to raise forceful voice against the deplorable act.” A spokesman for the Hurriyat Conference (M) said that the amalgam had charted out a week long programme […]
SRINAGAR: The recently floated Hurriyat Conference Jammu and Kashmir while expressing strong resentment over the Army decision to close the Pathribal fake encounter case said “Kashmiri nation never expected any justice on part of Army.” “Such decisions vindicate our stand that India is occupying Jammu and Kashmir merely by dint of gun,” the statement said, […]
Srinagar: Expressing serious concern over the latest standoff on cross-LoC trade, the Jammu and Kashmir Joint Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JKJCCI) on Friday urged the Indian and Pakistani authorities to immediately facilitate the return of stranded drivers along with their trucks and resume the trade. “The Joint Chamber appeals to the Indian and Pakistan […]
Side-effects, a term usually associated with prescription drugs, can safely be applied in Kashmir to illness itself. For, no sooner does a healthy person here transition into patient-hood than he or she suffers leaden feet – a problem research could show to be universal in the Valley. Far from being a prospect of relief and […]
Srinagar: The death of a Hizbul Mujahideen commander in an encounter sparked violent anti-India protests in Qazigund area of south Kashmir on Monday. Meanwhile, an unidentified militant was killed in a separate encounter in Tral town. Hizb’s district commander Javed Ahmad Mir alias Salfi, a resident of Bulbul Nowgam (Anantnag), was killed in the gunfight […]
JAMMU: The Committee on Environment of Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly on Monday directed the Industries and Commerce Department to depute a team of officers to Kathua district to inspect the level of pollution at the Cement Units operating in the area. It also asked the government to furnish the report to the Assembly Secretariat […]
Srinagar: Security was tightened Monday in this summer capital and other major towns of the Valley in run up to January 26 . Paramilitary CRPF personnel and police have been deployed in strength for R-day functions across the Valley, official sources told Kashmir Reader Monday. A contingent of troopers and policemen carried out day long […]
Many in Kashmir would find it instructive to study how and why the Indian National Congress, the political platform that eventually came to lead India’s independence movement, was formed. Given Kashmir’s peculiar political circumstances, the young here may find shades of irony in the fact that the Congress was the brainchild of a retired colonial […]
Srinagar: A Sarpanch belonging to ruling National Conference and a policeman have been arrested in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district for trading banned drugs. Reports said a police officer caught a man coming out from police station Kakapora with bottles of Codeine wrapped in a newspaper. On questioning, the man confessed that a police constable had […]