Pampore: The students and parents of Pampore Township in south Kashmir have urged the authorities concerned to introduce Commerce stream in Boys Higher Secondary School Pampore. According to the locals, the school was established in 1955 but since then there have been no efforts to introduce the stream in the institution. The students from the […]
SRINAGAR: Condemnations continued to pour in on Wednesday against the expulsion of Kashmiri students from Swami Vivekananda Subharti University (SVSU) in Meerat. Jama’at-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir while “strongly condemning the harassment to Kashmiri students in Indian states” said that such incidents have become a routine. “It has become a routine to harass Kashmiri Muslim students […]
Bilal Habib Pampore: One person was killed and 24 others injured, including 11 tourists from Maharashtra, in three separate road accidents in Jammu region, officials said Wednesday. They said a vehicle met with an accident at Bakhad Sunderbani on Wednesday, leaving dead Asad Parvez, son of Mohammad Aslam, of Budoon Rajouri, and injuring Zahoor Ahmad, […]
SRINAGAR: Police on Tuesday organized a drug de-addiction awareness program in ITI Pattan in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. In a statement, a police spokesperson said that about 100 persons including sixty trainees participated in the day long program organized by Drug De-Addiction Centre (DDC), Baramulla. Incharge DDC, Baramulla, Dr. Mohammad Ashraf briefed the students and […]
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir government has appointed 122 retired officials in the state in various departments and ministries since 2009, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said Tuesday. 98 officials were re-engaged and re-employed after their retirement on superannuation, he told the state Assembly in reply to a question of Abdul Rehman Veeri (PDP). 24 retired officers […]
Jammu: Director General of Police Ashok Prasad Tuesday said peaceful conduct of elections this year will be the biggest challenge for the force. “Peaceful conduct of Parliamentary and Assembly elections are one of the biggest challenges before JKP this year,” Prasad said while addressing police durbars at district police lines at Rajouri and Poonch. He […]
SRINAGAR: Opposition PDP Tuesday took out a rally in protest against National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah for his purported remarks on power theft in Jammu and Kashmir. Several PDP activists, led by former employees’ union leader turned politician Khursheed Aalam, took out a march from party headquarters at Polo View amid tight security arrangements to […]
SRINAGAR: Senior leader of Mirwaiz-led Hurriyat Conference and of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (H) chairman, Javid Ahmad Mir was Tuesday afternoon operated upon in his eye in a Srinagar hospital. Mir, who was operated by a surgeon from Amritsar at Florence Hospital, Chanapora, was later discharged. KR Desk
SRINAGAR: A youth committed suicide while another made a similar attempt to end his life in the Kashmir valley, police said Tuesday. 22-year-old Mursaleen Muahtaq Lone hanged himself in his house at Parin Kunamulla in the central Kashmir district of Ganderbal. He was rushed to hospital where he was declared brought dead, a police spokesman […]
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir Assembly on Monday admitted a private member’s bill seeking ban on manufacture, advertisement, sale, purchase and consumption of liquor in the state. The bill was introduced by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) MLA Abdul Haq Khan. The bill (No. 15 of 2014) seeks “to prohibit the manufacture, advertisement, sale, purchase, consumption, […]