Follow-Up SRINAGAR: Caretakers and security guards at People’s Democratic Party’s national spokesperson Dr Sameer Kaul’s illegal residential house close to Dal Lake here Thursday refused to cooperate in the demolition process initiated by the Lakes and Waterways Development Authority (LAWDA). A team of LAWDA officials had to wait outside the main gate of the house, […]
SRINAGAR: Senior leader of Hurriyat Conference Jammu Kashmir (HCJK) and chairman Democratic Freedom Party (DFP), Shabir Ahmad Shah Thursday left for Jammu in connection with “the ongoing consultations vis-à-vis HCJK with DFP activists of Jammu, Udhampur, Kishtwar, Doda, Rajouri, Bhaderwah and Poonch. In a statement, the DFP spokesperson said that Shah will “deliberate on the […]
SRINAGAR: Private Schools United Front (PSUF) has proposed a private-public partnership for reforming the ailing government schools. In a statement, the front said on Thursday that they can “double the present success rate of the schools at half the budget allocated to them.” Expressing its disappointment at the continuous downturn of the government educations sector, […]
SRINAGAR: JKLF chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik and the Syed Ali Geelani-led Hurriyat Conference Thursday slammed the “government crackdown” on pro-freedom leadership ahead of Lok Sabha polls. In a statement, Malik said that while democracy is considered to be a battle of ideologies the government by imposing curbs on pro-freedom leadership had proven to be “highly […]
Srinagar: Ghulam Nabi Azad would contest from Udhampur Lok Sabha seat, the Congress announced on Thursday. The announcement was made after a meeting of Congress High Command chaired by the party president Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi, late night reports said. Azad’s name figured in list of 50 Congress Lok Sabha candidates. His candidature for […]
Srinagar: Violent protests broke out Thursday in Saderkoot Bala area of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district against the arrest of five youth on charges of stone pelting. Scores of youth took to streets at Saderkoot Bala and staged pro-freedom and anti-India demonstrations to register their protest against the arrests. Besides chanting slogans, the protesting youth also […]
Srinagar: Results of surprise checks conducted by the central drug regulator’s office show a high concentration of substandard drugs in Jammu and Kashmir where as much as 17 per cent of the drug samples tested were found to be unacceptable, a media report said Thursday. “This region also accounted for half the total sample which […]