SRINAGAR: With an aim to promote and find new markets for the world famous Kashmir handicrafts, the fifth international ‘Buyer-Seller Meet’ in which more than 75 foreign participants from about 25 countries are participating has commenced here on Saturday. The three-day meet organized by Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industries (KCCI) will conclude on Monday, […]
Neglected for over three decades, the problem of proliferating stray dogs has surpassed crisis proportions many times over, and continues to exist partly out of the public’s long-engendered lack of expectation from authorities. It is remarkable that, when the government and municipal machinery began to put its act together ten years ago, the first targets […]
New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday expressed regret that BJP was making withdrawal of sedition charges against Kashmiri students in Meerut an election issue. Participating in the two-day India Today conclave here, Omar argued that if youngsters from any other state would have cheered for Pakistan, it would not have […]
JAMMU: Expressed his dismay over the diversion of plan grants for non-plan purposes by the Jammu and Kashmir government, the Principal Accountant General Audit (PAG), Subhash Chander Pandey Saturday said ‘J&K’s own deficit is on a constant increase and the revenue deficit has not been brought down as required by the FRBM Act’. Pandey was […]
Srinagar: Even as sedition charges have been dropped against the 67 Kashmiri students who were suspended by a private university in Uttar Pradesh for having supported Pakistan’s cricket team in a game against India, investigations into the case will go on as the students remain booked for “causing disharmony” and for “mischief”, the police said […]
New Delhi: There is a need to build a “fear of consequences” within laws like Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) so that they are not misused by the Army, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Omar Abdullah said Saturday. Talking on wide-ranging issues here at the two-day India Today conclave, Omar also dismissed suggestions mainly coming […]
Srinagar: If you think winter is over, think again as the Meteorological Department Saturday issued a weather warning for “moderate to rather heavy rain, snow” during next four days. “A fresh Western Disturbance over J&K and adjoining areas is likely to affect the state from March 9 (Sunday) to March 12 (Wednesday) with its main […]
Srinagar: Various social organizations Saturday staged massive protest demonstrations here and threatened of mass agitation if the state government extends lease over Tosmaidan meadow to the Army. Hundreds of protestors carrying banners and placards gathered under the banner of J&K RTI Movement and Tosmaidan Bachao Front at the Press Enclave here shouting anti-government slogans. The […]
‘It is not just sufficient to say that Kashmir must be resolved, but what steps are we taking towards that?’ New Delhi: Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson and former West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi has questioned the Indian leadership for not taking any step towards resolution of the Kashmir issue. “How much do we know of Dara […]
JAMMU: Agreeing with the description that massive land transfers to encroachers under Roshni Act was possibly the “biggest scam” of Jammu and Kashmir, state Principal Accountant General, Subash Chandra Pandey today criticised an earlier administration for making rules in contravention and violation of the law. “Possibly, yes,” he told reporters when asked about reports that […]