Pulwama: Militants on Friday made an abortive bid to target a joint police and CRPF post by hurling grenade at Kakapora area of Pulwama district in south Kashmir, officials said. Official sources told GNS that the militants hurled a grenade at a joint police and CRPF post outside higher secondary school Kakpora Pulwama. The device […]
New Delhi: India on Thursday said Chinese military was hindering normal patrolling by its troops along the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh and Sikkim and strongly refuted China’s contention that the escalating tension between the two armies was triggered by trespassing of Indian forces across the Chinese side. The Ministry of External Affairs said […]
Srinagar: Newly appointed Dean of Research at Kashmir University (KU) Prof Shakil Romshoo has claimed that research work at the varsity is poised for a great leap forward as the varsity has been assessed to be eligible for many research grants. In a letter addressed to research scholars at KU, Prof Romshoo has written that KU […]
Srinagar: Kashmir reported two Covid-19 deaths on Thursday taking the death toll in Jammu and Kashmir to 20. Dr M Saleem Khan, nodal officer for Covid-19 at GMC Srinagar said Chest Diseases Hospital one death on Thursday while another Covid-19 death was reported at SMHS Hospital. The deceased include 80-year-old woman of Bemina in Srinagar […]
Shopian: Shopian has seen no fresh case for last five days giving respite to administration as well as frontline workers combating Covid-19. The south Kashmir district saw 73 from single village Hirpora causing massive panic among locals. A total of 109 cases were reported in district but so far 98 have recovered reducing the number […]
New Delhi: A day after announcing the resumption of domestic commercial passenger flights from May 25, the Civil Aviation Ministry on Thursday issued detailed guideline s for airlines, airports, passengers and other stakeholders on issues ranging from control on air fares to restrictions on number of bags. The ministry said it will prescribe lower and […]
Anantnag: A policeman was killed and another seriously wounded on Thursday afternoon in a militant attack in Prichoo village of south Kashmir’s Pulwama. The slain policeman was identified as Anoop Singh of the IRP Battalion while as the injured cop has been identified as Muhammad Ibrahim. A senior police official from Pulwama told Kashmir Reader […]
SRINAGAR: The Kashmir Press Club on Thursday expresses its concern that the summoning of journalists in Kashmir by police has not stopped. In the latest incident, a Kashmir based journalist Fahad Shah, has brought to the notice of the Club that he was summoned by Jammu and Kashmir Police’s Cyber Cell on Wednesday afternoon. “As […]
Srinagar: Kashmir Working Journalists Association (KWJA) condemned the continued harassment and intimidation of journalists in Kashmir. In the latest instance, Srinagar-based journalist and editor of weekly The Kashmir Walla, Fahad Shah, was summoned by Police to explain its reportage of the recent gunfight in the city in which some 15 houses were damaged and residents […]
Srinagar: The J&K High Court has issued notice and directed the government to file objections after a fresh plea was filed by journalist and author Gowhar Geelani against the transfer and investigation of his case to Sadder police station. Geelani while filing the fresh plea through his counsel Salih Pirzada questioned the order dated April […]