NC stages walkout from assembly

Jammu: Opposition National Conference on Thursday staged a walkout from Jammu and Kashmir Assembly against Public Works Department minister accusing him of discrimination with opposition MLA’s in Srinagar district. Alleging discrimination, the opposition NC said that the department was macadamising roads which fall in jurisdiction of PDP ministers and MLAs only.   Guest

LoC firing: Authorities order closure of schools in Rajouri

Srinagar: Following fresh exchange of fire and shelling between the armies of Indai and Pakistan, authorities on Thursday have ordered closure of schools along the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir. The district administration has ordered the closure of schools in villages hit by shelling after a fresh exchange of […]

Minor injured in shell explosion, succumbs

Srinagar: A 10-year-old boy who was seriously wounded at the site of gunfight in Chaigund village of south Kashmir’s Shopian district last week has succumbed to injuries. With his death,  five civilians have been killed in a week in the southern Shopian district. Musharaf Fayaz son of Fayaz Ahmad Najar suffered critical injuries in his head […]

Shopian turns tense as injured youth succumbs, toll reaches 3

Srinagar: The death toll in the alleged Army firing on a mob in Shopian district of south Kashmir rose to three after a critically injured youth succumbed to injuries on Wednesday morning. Rayees Ahmad, who was among the nine persons injured in the Army firing last week, succumbed to injuries at a hospital here this […]

Army files counter FIR, gives its ‘version’ of the incident  

Srinagar: Hours after the third civilian lost his life to the injuries at SKIMS in Srinagar, the Army has filed a counter First Information Report, (FIR) over the ‘attack on its soldiers’ in south Kashmir’s Shopian district on Saturday last week. The Army said its men were attacked by the people with stones and forced […]

JRL protests against Shopian killings 

Srinagar: Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) leaders and activists on Wednesday staged a protest against the Shopian killings, saying that the forces in the Valley are celebrating killings in Kashmir. The protest was called by the JRL comprising Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik. Geelani and Mirwaiz continued to remain under house […]

Kashmiris miss ‘snow blanket’ this ‘Chillai Kalan’

Srinagar: Unlike the previous years, people of Kashmir this winter season have missed a chance to witness a snow blanket in the ‘Chillai Kalan’, a 40-day harshest winter period. The harshest winter period of the season ended on Wednesday. The forecasters in the local Meteorological department informed ‘Kashmir Vision’ that the next month (February) would […]

Avalanche warning in hilly districts issued

Srinagar: Government on Wednesday issued an avalanche warning in several districts of Jammu and Kashmir for next 24 hours, shortly after a 6.2 magnitude earthquake on the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border region jolted parts of north India. The Snow and Avalanche Study Establishment has “informed that medium danger avalanche warning of level-3 exists in higher reaches of […]

Strong earthquake jolts Valley

Srinagar: A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.1 jolted northern Afghanistan on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said, with tremors felt as far away as Srinagar and New Delhi. The quake hit at 12:37 IST near Afghanistan’s northern border with Tajikistan in the Hindu Kush mountains at a depth of 191 kilometres (119 miles), the US […]

CM denounces call for separate state for Muslims

Jammu: Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti denounced a demand to have a separate state for Muslims, in an apparent reference to a top cleric’s suggestion made yesterday. “J&K was neither a party to the partition of our country nor did we support division on religious lines. We as a state opted for the opposite, but unfortunately […]