Follow-Up SRINAGAR: Caretakers and security guards at People’s Democratic Party’s national spokesperson Dr Sameer Kaul’s illegal residential house close to Dal Lake here Thursday refused to cooperate in the demolition process initiated by the Lakes and Waterways Development Authority (LAWDA). A team of LAWDA officials had to wait outside the main gate of the house, […]
Srinagar: Ghulam Nabi Azad would contest from Udhampur Lok Sabha seat, the Congress announced on Thursday. The announcement was made after a meeting of Congress High Command chaired by the party president Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi, late night reports said. Azad’s name figured in list of 50 Congress Lok Sabha candidates. His candidature for […]
Srinagar: Results of surprise checks conducted by the central drug regulator’s office show a high concentration of substandard drugs in Jammu and Kashmir where as much as 17 per cent of the drug samples tested were found to be unacceptable, a media report said Thursday. “This region also accounted for half the total sample which […]
Follow-Up SRINAGAR: Authorities may not take any action against politician Dr Sameer Kaul for illegally constructing a residential house in non-permissible area close to the Dal Lake here because of the flaws in system and political considerations. Dr Kaul, national spokesperson of opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP), is constructing the house near Sharab Kul, which […]
Srinagar: A complete shutdown was observed Wednesday in Hajin town of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district to protest alleged excesses by government forces, even as the curfew clamped after the killing of a teenager on Friday last, was lifted after four days. All shops, offices, business establishments, and banks remained closed while public transport was off […]
SRINAGAR: Asking New Delhi to fulfill its obligations under international law by giving people of Kashmir the right to self-determination, Kashmir High Bar Association (HCBA) Wednesday said that Crimea achieved freedom from Ukraine under the same right which New Delhi was denying to Kashmir. In a statement, the HCBA general secretary said that the lawyers’ […]
Srinagar: Unruly scenes were witnessed Wednesday during a meeting organized by an NGO to discuss the suspension of Kashmiri students by an Uttar Pradesh university on charges of celebrating Pakistan’s win over India in the recently held Asia Cup. Rabia Baji, chairperson All India Centre for Urban and Rural Development (AICURD), which had facilitated the […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Congress chief Saif-ud-Din Soz on Wednesday constituted a 19-member campaign committee for Jammu province in the run up to the Parliamentary elections. The committee includes former Minister of State for Health, Shabir Khan, who was booked by police in Srinagar last month on a complaint by a lady doctor alleging that […]
SRINAGAR: Senior leader of Hurriyat Conference (M) and chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (H) Javaid Ahmad Mir Wednesday welcomed Crimea’s decision to declare independence from Ukraine and said the move will prove morale boaster for Kashmiri people. “Crimea’s decision to declare independence from Ukraine will prove a morale booster for our freedom struggle […]
SRINAGAR: A delegation of Dal Khalsa Punjab Wednesday called on ailing Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani in New-Delhi and wished him speedy recovery. The five-member delegation led by Kanwar Pal Singh also hailed Geelani’s “fearless and unambiguous stand on Kashmir,” a spokesman for the Hurriyat faction said in a statement. “ The Dal […]