Srinagar: There is “disappointment” in Jammu and Kashmir and the people are living under “fear”, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti alleged on Sunday. “There is disappointment, people are being arrested, recently wife of Sarjan Barkati was arrested in a terror funding case. There is no evidence, no hearing and people are just arrested and sent to […]
Srinagar: National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah on Saturday said that after the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019, people of Jammu and Kashmir have got nothing but “problems and suffering”. He also accused the successive governments at the Centre of “plotting to weaken” his party. Addressing a convention of party workers at Sumbal Sonawari […]
Srinagar: Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration( PAGD) on Thursday deplored the “Rajouri attack in no uncertain terms” in which five soldiers lost their lives. “Violence only exacerbates the issues rather than resolving them.” “The people of Jammu and Kashmir have borne the brunt of violence over the past more than 30 years. They have a […]
United Nations: India has dismissed an “unwarranted and habitual” reference to Kashmir made by Pakistan during a Security Council meeting here. India’s retort came at the UN Security Council open debate on Maintenance of International Peace and Security: Promoting Sustaining Peace through Common Development’. The debate was held under China’s Presidency after Pakistan’s UN envoy […]
On bail to Army captain in fake encounter case Srinagar: National Conference leader Omar Abdullah on Monday criticised the granting of bail to an Army captain convicted by a general court-martial for his role in the 2020 Amshipora fake encounter case. “I want to appeal to the Centre not to play with the people here. […]
Srinagar: The People’s Democratic Party on Thursday accused the BJP-led Centre of curbing freedom of expression, saying if the status quo continues, it will lead to the death of democracy. “Nine Indian journalists have been arbitrarily arrested and six of them are Kashmiri. We may not have seen the birth of the Indian democracy but […]
Jammu: Lt Governor Manoj Sinha on Tuesday said the election for urban local bodies would be held after completion of the delimitation exercise of wards and reservation of wards for other backward classes. He said this while attending the felicitation ceremony of the councilors of Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) whose five-year-term ends Tuesday. He commended […]
Dhar (MP): Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday said that it is Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government that has the courage to stop infiltrators in the country and it is not possible for the Congress and leaders of the opposition bloc INDIA to do so. “Modi ji has done the job of stopping infiltrators […]
Srinagar: People’s Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday questioned the Centre’s claims about normalisation of the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, pointing to the concretisation of temporary security bunkers. “What do I say? If the situation has improved, it should reflect on the ground. Then we should not have so many new concrete structures […]
Srinagar: National Conference (NC) leader Omar Abdullah Tuesday questioned the construction of a motorable road up to the Amarnath cave shrine and said playing with the environment in such a way was not good as it was akin to destroying it. He said the annual pilgrimage to the shrine has been going on for years […]