SRINAGAR: Terming the soft approach of United Nations and India’s stubbornness in resolving Kashmir issue as main reasons behind lingering of the longstanding Kashmir dispute, Hurriyat Conference Jammu and Kashmir (HCJK) senior leader Shabir Ahmad Shah Sunday said the peace in south Asia will remain a distant dream without resolving the issue. “It is due […]
JAMMU: 45 villages spread over certain districts in Jammu and Kashmir have been recently declared as backward areas, government informed the state Assembly on Sunday. The state government has recently notified 45 villages as backward areas on recommendations of Jammu and Kashmir Backward Classes Commission, Social Welfare Minister Sakina Itoo said during question hour. With […]
SRINAGAR: Police on Sunday detained a group of JKLF leaders when they were on their way to Kunan-Poshpora villages of Kupwara district to attend a protest rally scheduled to be held on the 23rd anniversary of the alleged mass rape of at least 30 women by Indian soldiers. According to a JKLF spokesman, senior leaders […]
JAMMU: Results of raffle draw for prizes of Police Public Mela were announced at Police Sports Stadium Gulshan Ground here on Sunday evening. The draw was held in presence of large gathering of men, women and children. Small children drawn from the gathering picked the lucky numbers for prizes of different categories in presence of […]
SRINAGAR: The State government had no role in implementing the Prime Minister’s Special Scholarship Scheme (PMSSS) neither was any NGO/ Private Organisation authorised for carrying it out, government said on Sunday. While replying to a joint question by Khalid Najib Suhrawardy, Sheikh Ghulam Rasool and Mohammad Muzafar Parray, Minister for Higher Education, Mohammad Akbar Lone, […]
SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Contractors Coordination Committee (JKCCC) will hold a demonstration at press colony Lalchowk on Tuesday to protest against, what it calls, an undue delay in payment of their bills. “The pending bills for the last three years amount to Crores of rupees and many contractors are in dire need and are […]
JAMMU: Second round of Intensified Pulse Polio Immunization Programme began Sunday from Government Hospital Gandhi Nagar here. An official spokesman said that this campaign will continue for another two days by way of house-to-house activity to trace and administer polio drops to the children left out on the first day of the round. Minister for […]
SRINAGAR: Asserting that people of Kashmir will not keep silent on the closure of Pathribal fake encounter case, Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Saturday said that it will “continue to protest till the killers are brought to justice.” A statement issued by the JKLF spokesman said that its supreme council, which meet Saturday at […]
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association (HCBA) Saturday said the hanging of Afzal Guru without affording him the chance of a fair trial exposed India’s judicial system as well as Kashmir’s pro-India camp. In a statement, the Bar general secretary, Mohammad Ashraf Bhat said that a meeting of the lawyers body chaired by […]
SRINAGAR: On the eve of 23rd anniversary of infamous Kunan-Poshpora mass rape by army, Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman, Syed Ali Geelani, Saturday reiterated his demand for investigation into the incident by an independent agency. “Though some Kashmiri women have filed a PIL in the local court to reopen and reinvestigate the case, but we should […]