Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti, will take part in the meeting that has been called by Union Home Minister, Rajnath Singh, on Saturday in Gangtok, to review the growing hostilities between Indian and China. CM will brief Rajnath Singh about the growing skirmishes between Indian and Chinese troops along the line of actual control (LAC) in […]
The District Administration Srinagar has decided to impose restriction in areas falling in jurisdictions of Nowhatta, MR Gunj and Safakadal police stations. A senior government official in the administration said that the restrictions have been imposed as a “precautionary measures” in view of the functions organised by the separatist Hurriyat Conference. Pertinently, Hurriyat (M) is […]
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Arun Jaitley, who also runs the defence ministry, on Friday expressed his satisfaction over the “readiness” of troops along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir and said the troops were ready to give a befitting response to any “misadventure” by Pakistan. Jaitley met army commanders at a forward post along the LoC and reviewed the […]
Arun Jaitley, the union finance minister, said on Friday that Jammu and Kashmir has complete right to implement Goods and Services Tax in the state. “Jammu and Kashmir assembly has the complete right to implement GST in the state,” he said at a press conference at SKICC. The finance minister took a dig at that […]
Dozens of people marched through the streets of the city’s business center denouncing the jailing of Aasiya Andrabi and her colleague Sofi Fahmeeda in Jammu prison. Terming it as state terrorism the protestors demanded that the jailed political leaders should be released immediately. After reaching near Budshah chowk protesters sat down and some leaders addressed […]
If the government had thought that its threat to disallow students from writing their examination, should they fall short of required attendance, would have an effect on daily protest, its calculation seems to have gone out the window. There has been no let-up in students protesting on college campuses and after weeks of student […]
The Pulwama office of the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) has released a report that pegs sex ratio in southern Kashmir much above the national index. The wrong figures have become the talk of the town and many are ridiculing the department for releasing such skewed numbers. Sex ratio, measured as total number of […]
In what is seen in the Kashmir valley as the political fallout of the last year’s pro-freedom protest campaign led by separatist leadership, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday began investigating them for receiving funds from militant outfits like Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), Jamaat-Ud-Dawaah (JuD), headed by Hafiz Saeed and others. The Hurriyat leaders have all […]
A Symposium-cum-Awareness camp on the topic “Save Girls, Save Trees “was organized by NGO, Jan Sangarsh in collaboration with Tehsil Legal Services Committee Udhampur at Government City High School, Boys, Lambi Gali here today. District Information Officer, Esha Chib was the Chief Guest while DFO Territorial Jugal Kishore was Guest of Honour on the occasion. […]