New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha on Tuesday passed a bill on protection of rights of transgenders after a motion to refer it to a select committee of the Upper House was defeated. The Lok Sabha had passed the bill on August 5. The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2019, seeks to provide a mechanism […]
LG directs DGP to secure shrines
Srinagar/Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor G C Murmu on Tuesday asked the police chief to strengthen security of shrines across the Union Territory following an attack on the shrine of Mir Syed Mohammad Hamdani in Tral area of south Kashmir. The shrine, adjacent to a local mosque at Kounsarbal (Krusbal) Mohalla in the Old […]
SRINAGAR: A semblance of normalcy greeted Srinagar valley on Tuesday with shopkeepers opening their shops in morning and doing brisk business till noon with a huge rush of people thronging the market amid near-normal public transport operations. The shopkeepers, however, downed their shutters in the afternoon to join a protest against the scrapping of Article […]
New Delhi: Train services in the Srinagar-Banihal section of Kashmir Valley has resumed fully, more than three months after it was suspended due to security reasons, the railways said on Tuesday. A limited passenger service of two pairs of Trains between Srinagar-Baramulla was started between 10 am to 3 pm with effect from November 12. […]
‘Atmosphere of fear prevails in Valley’
SRINAGAR: A five-member civil society delegation led by former Union minister Yashwant Sinha on Monday wrapped up its four-day visit to Kashmir terming it as very successful, but asserted that the situation in the Valley after the abrogation of Article 370 was not normal. The delegation, known as Concerned Citizens’ Group (CCG), also termed the […]
SRINAGAR: Most of the shops in Srinagar opened for a few hours on Monday and the movement of public transport also increased, officials said. Shops opened at several places across the city, including in the areas around the commercial hub of Lal Chowk here, and some places elsewhere in the valley, the officials said. They, […]
JAMMU: Jammu and Kashmir will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of India on November 26 for the first time since the abrogation of Article 370 that ended the J&K Constitution that was in place since 1957. “To acknowledge the contribution of the framers of the Constitution and sensitise people regarding […]
SRINAGAR: Four government teachers whose names ‘mistakenly’ figured in list of suspended teachers for abysmal Board results last year are yet to be reinstated by the school education department, Kashmir. The department had ordered suspension of the teachers registering zero percent results in their subjects in class 10 and 12 annual board exams while as […]
SRINAGAR: Two political leaders who were detained since August 5 have been shifted to their residences, where they will be placed under house detention. They said the leaders who were released include Peoples Democratic Front Chairman Hakeem Mohammad Yaseen and PDP leader Mohammad Ashraf Mir, reported KNS. Sources said the duo will be now placed […]
JCCI, KCCI cite past experiences
SRINAGAR: Investment proposals moved by the outside business houses after the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir have evoked little interest among the region’s trade bodies citing past experiences. After the abrogation of J&K’s special constitutional status, which allowed non-locals to buy immovable property, many top notch companies have shown keen interest in […]