Srinagar: Authorities on Saturday imposed restrictions in Srinagar areas while the rest of Valley observed acomplete shutdown to protest against the killing of a pro-freedom leader, Muhammad Yousuf Nadeem, Supreme Court verdict over the Shopian killings and shifting of Kashmiri jail inmates to other jails. The shutdown call was given by the Joint resistance […]
Srinagar: Former Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah Saturday said BJP wants to give communal color to Kathua rape and murder incident. He said in the garb of tricolour a rapists cannot be saved. Farooq Abullah was interacting with his party workers at his Gupkar residence in Srinagar. Expressing anguish over the use of Indian tricolor by BJP […]
JAMMU: Lt. Gen. A.K. Bhat, GOC 15 Corps, met Governor N.N. Vohra at the Raj Bhavan here Saturday and briefed him about issues relating to the security situation in the Valley. Observing that there was no likelihood of a decline in the continuing militant activities the Governor advised enhanced surveillance along the LoC. He appreciated […]
SRINAGAR: Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti laid the foundation of College block and 250 bedded Hospital block of SKIMS Medical College, Bemina here on Saturday. To be built at a cost of Rs. 172. 25 crore, the complex would have all the facilities of modern day healthcare for the convenience of people. On the occasion, the […]
Srinagar: Awami Itehad Party (AIP) president and MLA Langate, Engineer Abdul Rasheed Sheikh Saturday led a protest of Jablipora residents to seek removal of Army camp being established in the area. The protesters assembled outside Srinagar’s Press Enclave and staged protest outside Srinagar’s Press Enclave against efforts of 2-RR to establish a camp at […]
Srinagar: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Indian authorities and the National Investigative Agency (NIA) to immediately drop charges against photojournalist Kamran Yousuf and order his release. “India’s National Investigative Agency is way out of its league and has no business defining what ‘a real journalist’ should cover,” said Steven Butler, CPJ’s […]
Srinagar: The data used by the NITI Aayog’s report to paint a triumphant picture of the health sector in the state of Jammu and Kashmir is proving out to be ‘misrepresenting’ various facts. When compared with the data that has been provided by the Union Ministry of Health on the status of healthcare in the […]
Jammu: Social activist Anna Hazare is likely to visit Jammu and Kashmir before launching an agitation over Jan Lokpal and farmers issues in New Delhi next month, an NGO said Saturday. “We have invited him (Hazare) to visit Jammu and he has accepted the invite. We are expecting him to address a public meeting here […]
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir is spending about Rs 2,000 crore annually to import meat and poultry, Governor N N Vohra has said and called for concerted efforts to make the state a net exporter of these products. The states import bill for meat, poultry and eggs is approximately Rs 2,000 crore per annum and both […]
Srinagar: With cloud cover hovering, the minimum temperatures throughout Jammu and Kashmir showed improvement on Saturday, according to the weather office. The MeT office has said that there would be further improvement in the weather during the next 24 hours In Srinagar, the minimum temperature was 4.5 degrees Celsius while in Pahalgam and Gulmarg it […]