KU publishes names of poor students on website

Srinagar: Kashmir University has hurt scores of students living below poverty line by publishing their names on its official website. Reports said the varsity’s Law Department carried names of at least 60 students on its website on March 3 and announced that they had been provided financial assistance. The  students, however, said they did not […]

Protest against Tosmaidan lease extension

Srinagar: Civil society groups  Saturday staged a protest demonstration here against extension  of Tosmaidan land to Indian Army. Members of the Tosmaidan Bachao Front (TMBF), J&K RTI Movement, Panchayat Association and Rural Voice  staged a  demonstration at the  Press Enclave against the extension of  lease of thousands of hectares of  land in the Tosmaidan meadow […]

HC dismisses bail plea by Nowhatta youth

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir High Court has dismissed bail application filed by a youth who was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in jail last year for  fatally hitting  a shopkeeper with a cricket bat at Nowhatta here. While dismissing the plea filed by the convicted youth, a single bench of Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey […]

Malik, aides detained on way to Baramulla

Srinagar: Police Friday detained  Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front(JKLF) chairman  Mohammad Yasin Malik along with several associates in Pattan area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. The JKLF leaders were on their way to Baramulla to address a public gathering in connection with the election boycott campaign when “SOG, RR and CRPF attacked their vehicles,” a […]

Shahi Imam low-rung soldier of Congress: Geelani

Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference(G) chairman Syed Ali Gilani Saturday  said that website Cobra Post’s sting operation disclosure on Babri Masjid  showed that the both Congress and BJP had no difference in their policies towards the Muslims and were acting upon the plan of making India a Hindu national state. Geelani  also attacked the Shahi Imam of […]

PDP participating in LS polls to help BJP: Azad

Jammu: India’s Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Ghulam Nabi Azad, on Saturday Azad accused opposition People’s Democratic Party of contesting the upcoming Lok Sabha elections “only to give indirect benefit to BJP in these elections in Jammu region.” “PDP candidates are not going to win elections but they are in the fray only to […]

Asiya Andrabi flays Indian Muslim clerics

SRINAGAR: Dhukhtran-e-Milat (DeM) chairperson, Asiya Andrabi, Friday said that India’s Muslim clerics play into the hands of Congress and Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and forget the ‘riots against them’. “Indian Muslims and clerics unfortunately forgot everything. They have forgotten Gujarat riots, Muzzafar Nagar riots, demolition of Babri Masjid and hundreds of other riots against them. […]

Darbar Move offices to close on April 25

JAMMU: The Civil Secretariat and other Darbar Move offices will close here on April 25 and April 26 respectively and would reopen in summer capital Srinagar on May 5. According to a government order issued by General Administration Department (GAD) here Friday, the government offices observing five day week shall close in winter capital Jammu […]

Malik laments JKLF’s response to critics in past

Malik laments JKLF’s response to critics in past

SRINAGAR: Terming threat calls to some writers and columnists as unfortunate and unwanted, Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik Friday said such things cause damage to society in general. In a statement, Malik, who has been placed under house arrest fromThursday night, said that “if any one takes a look into the […]

Desist from black marketing of LPG: CAPD Deptt to dealers

SRINAGAR: Warning LPG and kerosene dealers to desist from black marketing, Secretary, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution, Baseer Ahmad Khan Friday asked them to ensure smooth supplies of the essentials to the consumers. According to an official handout, Khan was addressing a meeting of senior officers of the department to streamline the home delivery system […]