Two local militants killed in Sopore
Street clashes throughout the day, both militants buried in evening
‘Wall of Hope’ reaches Baramulla
Baramulla: After Srinagar, Pulwama and Sopore, the “Wall of Kindness” where people can donate clothes and other things for the poor and needy reached north Kashmir’s Baramulla town, but the organisers changed its name to “Wall of Hope”. On Thursday afternoon, a group of lawyers including Nilofar Masood, and Mudasir Naqashbandi along with other people […]
Another leader quits PDP: Uri’s Raja Ajaz
BARAMULLA: After Imran Raza Ansari, Abid Ansari and Mohammad Abbas Wani, now another senior leader of People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Raja Ajaz Ali Khan, the party’s chief in Uri, resigned from basic membership of the PDP on Thursday. Talking to reporters at his residence at Pehlipora in Uri, Khan said that he had sent his […]
Gunfight in Sopore, internet snapped
Sopore: A gunfight broke out between government forces and militants in Brath village of Sopore Wednesday evening after a team of government forces including army’s 22RR, SOG of police, and paramilitary CRPF launched a Cordon and Search Operation (CASO). Sources said that a CASO was launched in Brath village in the afternoon but it ended […]
‘Wall of Kindness’ reaches north Kashmir’s Sopore
Baramulla: The ‘Wall of Kindness’ – a charitable initiative for donating clothes to needy and poor – has reached north Kashmir’s Sopore town. It reached Kashmir last week and received applause from people on social media. Behind the initiative was the Kashmir chapter of WhoisHussian, a charitable organisation inspired by Hazrat Hussain (RA) and spread […]
Cooperative bank casual employees stage protest in Baramulla
Demand release of pending salary, regularisation of services
Residents protest power crises in Sopore
BARAMULLA: The residents of Nowpora area of Sopore in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district staged a protest on Wednesday against the shortage of electricity in their area. The reports said a large number of people including women and children from Nowpora area of Sopore staged a protest against the shortage of electricity in the area on […]
10 years on, footbridge at Uri’s Trikanjan village still incomplete
Baramulla: The residents of Trikanjan village of Boniyar, Uri in this north Kashmir district are up in arms against government for failing to construct a footbridge over a stream. Locals of the area said that some ten years ago, a small footbridge was installed on a local stream Bachi Nala, however it was completely washed […]
Panchayat seats reserved for women find no takers
Baramulla: Even though 42.84% voters cast their vote in Narvaw block of district Baramulla on Saturday, there were four panchayat halqas where no one contested and no election was held. Official sources said that Kawhar, Malpora, Audora and Hewan A were the four panchayat halqas in Narvaw block where no one submitted nomination form either […]
Hundreds throng Dargah Hazrat Syed Muhammad Janbaz Wali Shrine (RA) on 600th Urs
BARAMULLA: As Kashmir shivers from the increasing cold, people in Baramulla’s Khanpora in North Kashmir came out of their homes late Thursday night and joined the 600th Shab-e-Khani of the famous Sufi saint, Hazrat Syed Muhammad Janbaz Wali (RA). Special prayers (Shab-e-Khani) were observed the whole night in Khanpora at Dargah Hazrat Syed Muhammad Janbaz […]