Washington: Pakistan is not prepared to pay any price for peace with India and certainly not without resolving the Kashmir issue in a just manner, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said. Addressing the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) think-tank here on Thursday, Qureshi reiterated Pakistan’s demand that US President Donald Trump should […]
Jammu: The Congress on Friday demanded restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir, safeguards to jobs and property for the local people and release of all political leaders to facilitate early assembly polls in the erstwhile state. A resolution in this regard was passed in an executive committee meeting of the Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh […]
Srinagar: Hundreds of neighbourhoods in Srinagar and Budgam districts of the Valley on Friday plunged into darkness after the 33 kilowatt power supply line got snapped due to ‘bad weather’. The line supplies electricity to vast areas in Srinagar and Budgam. According to locals, there were unscheduled power outages since morning and electricity was yet […]
Srinagar: The School Education Department has not conducted any fresh survey of Out of School Children (OSC) in Jammu and Kashmir for the last three years even as the rate of mainstreaming such children is “very low”, the union Ministry of Human Resource Development has said. It came to fore at the Project Approval Board […]
Shopian: Twenty water supply schemes meant for over a hundred villages in South Kashmir’s district Shopian were affected due to recent heavy snowfall and freezing. Official sources said that almost all the habitations in this hilly district were affected due to the intense freezing of pipelines in the forested areas. More than 35 villages of […]
New Delhi: The elections to the nearly 13,000 vacant posts of panch and sarpanch in gram panchayats in Jammu and Kashmir is likely to be held next month and a notification is this regard is expected to be issued on January 25, officials said on Friday. If the polls take place, it will be the […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir administration has released from house arrest four politicians – one each from the NC, PDP, PC and Congress — after keeping them in detention for over five months following the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution, officials said on Friday. The four politicians released late Thursday night include a […]
PAMPORE: A shutdown was observed on Friday at Pampore in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district against frequent breakdown of transformer. Over 300 residents assembled at Tehsil office Pampore and staged a peaceful protest against Power Development Department (PDD). They raised slogans against PDD. Their representatives held a meeting with Tehsildar Pampore Ishtiyaq Mohi-ud-Din, AEE STD Arshid […]
PAMPORE: The residents of various villages in Pampore area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district have accused mechanical engineering department for failing to clear snow on different roads and link roads. Villagers from Ladhoo, Shaar, Wahab Sahab and adjoining areas informed that many roads and link roads in their area are still closed due to snow. […]
JAMMU: The special security force (SSF) guarding Lieutenant Governor Girish Chandra Murmu has been strengthened with induction of 19 more police personnel and support staff, officials said. As per the order issued by Special Secretary, Home Department, Shakeel-Ur-Rehman, 13 personnel including three officers and six police staff have been sent on deputation with the SSF […]