‘Release Mirwaiz on Shabe-Barat keeping in view people’s religious sentiments’

Srinagar: Anjuman Auqaf Jama Masjid Srinagar has expressed resentment over the fact that a holy and important event like Shab-e-Baraat is not being held at Jama Masjid for the last four years because the Anjuman head Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir Dr Moulvi Muhammad Umar Farooq continues to be under “illegal and arbitrary” house detention since 5 August 2019. […]

J&K Used To Have 90 MLAs, Now Has 30,000 Panches, Sarpanches: Amit Shah

J&K Used To Have 90 MLAs, Now Has 30,000 Panches, Sarpanches: Amit Shah

Ahmedabad: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday said democracy has reached to the grassroots level in Jammu and Kashmir for the first time after the removal of Article 370 of the Constitution from the erstwhile state in 2019 and it has also seen a dip in militancy-related incidents. Shah, in a virtual address at […]

Kupwara Man’s Death Case: Mehbooba Demands ‘Genuine Probe’

Kupwara Man’s Death Case: Mehbooba Demands ‘Genuine Probe’

Srinagar: A day after a missing person, who was allegedly detained by the Army in December last year, was found dead in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti Thursday said “such incidents have been normalised in the absence of any accountability” after the abrogation of Article 370. “Extremely disturbed to see pictures […]

Cong stages protest against property tax

Cong stages protest against property tax

Jammu: Scores of Congress workers on Thursday protested here against the imposition of property tax in Jammu and Kashmir, with senior party leader Vikar Rasool Wani accusing the Union Territory administration of being “anti-poor”. The workers led by Wani, who is the Congress’ J&K unit president, assembled outside the party’s headquarters at Shaheedi Chowk and […]

Imposition of property tax: NC, PDP, CPI(M) stages protest in Jammu

Imposition of property tax: NC, PDP, CPI(M) stages protest in Jammu

Says Admin Taking Decisions Without Consulting Even 30,000 Elected Public Representatives Jammu: National Conference, People’s Democratic Party and CPI(M) on Wednesday staged separate protests here against the imposition of property tax and demanded immediate roll back of the decision. Members of the National Conference (NC) led by their provincial president Rattan Lal Gupta took to […]

Body of missing Kupwara man recovered: Police

Body of missing Kupwara man recovered: Police

His Family Had Alleged That He Was Detained By Army In Dec Last Year Srinagar: The body of a missing person was recovered in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, police officials said while his family members alleged that the man was detained by the Army in December last year. According to a […]

Karan Singh for assembly polls in J&K

Karan Singh for assembly polls in J&K

Jammu: Claiming that there is lack of communication between the public and the bureaucracy in Jammu and Kashmir, veteran Congress leader Karan Singh on Tuesday advocated free and fair assembly elections to address the “missing link” by installing a popular government. Singh, son of the last Dogra ruler Maharaja Hari Singh, also demanded restoration of […]

NC denounces stripping SKIMS of autonomous status

NC denounces stripping SKIMS of autonomous status

Says the move runs contrary to govt’s promise of minimum govt, maximum governance slogan Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference on Tuesday decried J&K government’s move of stripping Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Science (SKIMS) of its autonomous status. In a statement, NC Chief Spokesperson Tanvir Sadiq while lamenting over what he called as undermining […]

Property Tax — 40% Households Exempted; 30% Shopkeepers To Pay Under Rs 2K Per Year: LG

Property Tax — 40% Households Exempted; 30% Shopkeepers To Pay Under Rs 2K Per Year: LG

Srinagar: Lieutenant Governor (LG) Manoj Sinha said on Monday that imposition of property tax was least in India and did not burden the common man. “We have repeatedly said the administration believes in dialogue. I want to tell residents of J-K that we have imposed least property tax. “There 5.20 lakh houses in the cities. […]

Who killed Sharma if militancy has ended in J&K, asks Mehbooba

Who killed Sharma if militancy has ended in J&K, asks Mehbooba

Says Kashmiri Muslims Ashamed Srinagar: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Monday said Kashmiri Muslims are ashamed over the killing of a Kashmiri Pandit and hit out at the government for claiming that normalcy has been restored in Jammu and Kashmir. Sanjay Sharma (40), who worked as an ATM guard, was shot in the chest at […]

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