New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday told a delegation of European Union MPs that close international cooperation is essential to fight terror and urgent action is needed against those supporting and sponsoring terrorism. The 28 members of parliament of the EU had called on the prime minister a day before they visit Jammu […]
SRINAGAR: People Democratic Party (PDP) leader Muzaffar Hussain Baig met the European Union (EU) delegation visiting Kashmir and suggested bilateral India and Pakistan dialogue to resolve Kashmir issue, as agreed in the Shimla agreement, Beig said. Baig met the delegation before its visit to Kashmir in New Delhi. He said he was flown to Delhi […]
Jammu: The Peoples Democratic Party leadership in Jammu on Monday sought a fresh permission from the governor administration to meet detained party president Mehbooba Mufti in Srinagar, a party leader said. The governor administration had earlier given permission to a delegation of the PDP leaders to meet the former chief minister but the party deferred […]
Srinagar: There is a dire need to stop sewage and polluted water flow into the Dal Lake to save the water body, a Committee of Experts on Dal Lake has told in its report submitted to J&K High Court. The Division Bench of Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Rashid Ali Dar directed for the […]
New Delhi: India has taken up Pakistan’s denial of use of its airspace to the prime minister’s flight with the International Civil Aviation Organisation, government sources said on Monday ahead of Narendra Modi’s visit to Saudi Arabia on a bilateral visit. India sought overflight clearance from Pakistan for the prime minister’s aircraft to go to […]
Normal life hit in Valley
Srinagar: For the first time in three decades, footpath vendors of a flea market here on Sunday defied the strike call to observe October 27 as a ‘black day’ to protest against the landing of Indian army to Kashmir in 1947. An emailed statement attributed to press secretary of Hurriyat Conference (G) on Saturday had […]
Sheikh Suhail Srinagar: The shutdown in Kashmir, following the abrogation of Article 370, has crippled the valley’s economy as the business community has suffered losses amounting to over Rs 10,000 crore in three months, a trade body said here. The deadlock in Kashmir, after the government of India announced the abrogation of Article 370 on […]
Says tough decisions possible due to their valour
Jammu: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday celebrated Diwali with the troops deployed in Jammu and Kashmir’s border district of Rajouri and praised them for their valour, saying it enables the government to take decisions hitherto considered impossible. Accompanied by Army Chief General Bipin Rawat, Modi flew to the Army Brigade Headquarters in Rajouri town […]
Srinagar: Panic gripped several parts of south Kashmir on Sunday afternoon after authorities “forcefully” removed hundreds of non-local truckers from several places in Shopian and adjoining villages of Pulwama and Kulgam. The trucks were also removed from the government designated ‘safe zones’, which act as pickup points for loading apple in trucks after the killing […]
Islamabad: Pakistan on Sunday said it has denied India’s request to allow Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s VVIP flight to use its airspace for his upcoming visit to Saudi Arabia, citing the alleged human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir. In a statement, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said Pakistan has decided not to allow Prime […]