JAMMU: The State Government shifting to Ways and Means Advances (WMA) arrangement with RBI, has saved about Rs 225 crore per year on interest outgo with it liquidating its structural overdraft (OD) liability of Rs. 2965 crore with the J&K Bank. This was disclosed by Minister for Finance Abdul Rahim Rather after queries raised by […]
SRINAGAR: Impressing upon police officers to exhibit sensitiveness while dealing with juvenile delinquents, Inspector General of Police, Kashmir, Abdul Gani Mir Sunday said that parents, teachers and religious leaders need to come together cohesively to contain juvenile delinquencies in society. A statement issued by a police spokesman said that IGP who was speaking at the […]
Srinagar: “All Indian institutions, may it be administration, Army or courts, have common policy on Kashmir, they want to use every effort to suppress the Kashmiri freedom movement and serve their national interests,” Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said on Sunday. Speaking at a seminar titled ‘Denial of Justice-Policy of the State’ organised […]
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir police has constituted a team to track the persons behind rumor about police strike next month. A statement issued by police spokesman said that “some anti-social and mischievous elements have uploaded a frivolous message on Whats app chat messenger and Facebook regarding police strike being observed on March 15.” It said […]
New Delhi: A Parliamentary panel on Kashmiri migrants has come down heavily on Union Home Ministry accusing it of neglecting various issues pertaining to the community especially in health sector as many people were suffering from cancer, kidney ailments and other diseases that needed immediate treatment. In its report, the Committee said it was “extremely […]
By Snehesh Alex Philip ISLAMABAD: Pakistan today demanded an early repatriation of the body of its national who had allegedly committed suicide in a Jammu jail. Reacting to reports that the prisoner was mentally unwell, the Foreign Office here said his family has claimed otherwise. “I have seen Indian media reports saying he was mentally […]
New Delhi: Former chief minister of the state and patron of ruling National Conference, Farooq Abdullah Sunday batted for encouraging migrant Kashmiri Pandit families to return to the Valley, saying nothing can keep them away from their “roots”. “Inshallah, I’m sure time is coming when people are going to come back to their roots. That […]
Twenty-three years on, Kunan Poshpora survivors continue to strive for justice. Even as redress seems to be a distant dream, the survivors are determined to take their struggle to its logical end. Authorities have been concealing the truth right from the beginning, sometimes by intimidating the victims and sometimes by offering compensation. Truth is bitter, […]
JAMMU: Opposition Peoples Democratic Party in Jammu and Kashmir Sunday said the National Conference government had failed on all fronts and the people should be wary of its “deceitful tactics”. “NC-led government has failed on all fronts and has been brazenly included into deceitful tactics to hoodwink the people,” former Deputy Chief Minister and senior […]
BY CHANDRAHAS CHOUDHURY Here are three strange but instructive instances of pride, pique and prejudice in modern India at different levels of state and society. To some Indians, they could represent the might and glory of the newly assertive motherland; to others of a perhaps more paranoid bent, they might indicate a creeping new culture […]