New Delhi: Former chief minister of the state and patron of ruling National Conference, Farooq Abdullah Sunday batted for encouraging migrant Kashmiri Pandit families to return to the Valley, saying nothing can keep them away from their “roots”. “Inshallah, I’m sure time is coming when people are going to come back to their roots. That […]
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: 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 […]
SRINAGAR: General Officer Commanding of the Army’s 15 Corps Lt Gen Gurmit Singh Sunday admitted the dress code gaffe and apologised to the scribes. “I would like to personally say sorry for the Pheran thing. It was inadvertent but nevertheless a mistake,” Lt Gen Singh told reporters. Lt Gen Singh said while no words were […]
SRINAGAR: A Sikh organisation in Kashmir on Saturday said that the members of the community would surrender their residency rights in Jammu and Kashmir as a mark of protest if the state government went ahead with any move to dilute the Minority Act. “We are against any dilution of or amendment in the National Commission […]
SRINAGAR: Higher reaches of the Kashmir Valley received fresh snowfall while rains lashed the plains of the region, including Srinagar on Saturday. Srinagar received 1.8 mm of rainfall till 08:30 hours Saturday morning, an official of the MeT Department said. The city recorded a minimum temperature of 3 degrees Celsius, over a degree up from […]
Srinagar: A pro-India party named ‘New Congress Party’ was launched here on Saturday with its chairman saying the party will support former Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and oppose state Congress chief Saif-ud-Din Soz. Addressing a news conference, chairman of the ‘New Congress Party’, BM Reshi accused Soz of dividing Congress in Jammu and Kashmir. […]
Srinagar: South Kashmir’s Pulwama town reeled under curfew Saturday for the third consecutive day to foil protests over the death of a militant in an alleged gunfight in Budgam district earlier this week. Reports said the curfew was extended to Gangoo area with police and paramilitary troopers deployed in strength while forces also sealed several […]
SRINAGAR: Forces recovered a huge cache of arms, including three assault rifles and four pistols, in Uri sector in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, an army spokesman said on Saturday. The arms were found inside a crevice underneath a huge boulder by a joint team of Army and police in Kamalkote area on Friday, he said. […]
New Delhi: India Friday came down hard on Pakistan for allowing Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar, blamed for the 2001 Parliament attack, to “spew venom” against it, saying it was a matter of concern how a globally banned terrorist could address anti-India rallies. India’s reaction came a day after Pakistan sought to play down a […]