Jammu: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Monday sought External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s intervention for her passport, saying she has been waiting for it for the past three years to take her 80-year-old mother on a pilgrimage to Mecca. In a letter to the minister, she said her passport’s renewal has been pending as the […]
Srinagar: The High Court of J&K and Ladakh on Monday sought response from Union government and Regional Passport Officer (RPO) Srinagar besides police authorities on a plea by PDP president Mehbooba Mufti’s daughter Iltija , seeking directions for the issuance of passport. A bench of Justice Rajesh Sekhri issued the notice and T. M. Shamshi, […]
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir administration has directed all administrative secretaries to monitor the social media networks to identify employees who are making unfavourable comments on government policies and issue notices to them, official sources said. The direction was passed by Chief Secretary A K Mehta at a meeting here on Friday with instructions to […]
Srinagar: The administration has halted the anti-encroachment drive that snowballed into a major controversy, according to emdia reports here. The drive has already evicted thousands of people who had been cultivating and residing on government land. Bulldozers were used to remove encroachments of 20 Lakh kanals (2.5 lakh acres) of land across 20 districts of […]
Gulmarg: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday accused the Centre of snatching the democratic rights of the people of Jammu and Kashmir and said the anti-encroachment drive was aimed at diverting attention from “real” issues. Gandhi was speaking at a meeting of party leaders from Jammu and Kashmir here, 52 km from Srinagar, a Congress […]
Jammu: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday appealed to the people of Jammu to unite and fight for their rights without being misled by any slogan. She said the BJP has promised to install a Dogra chief minister if voted to power in Jammu and Kashmir, but where are the Dogras. “We, […]
Srinagar: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday said the people of Jammu and Kashmir have now come to realise how Article 370 of the Constitution acted as a protective shield for them, after the BJP-led government used bulldozers to demolish houses and businesses of the poor. She also defended her father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s decision […]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday said it will take a decision on early listing of petitions challenging the Centre’s decision to abrogate provisions of Article 370 which had given special status to Jammu and Kashmir. A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices P S Narasimha and J B Pardiwala took note […]
Srinagar: Anjuman Auqaf Jama Masjid Srinagar said that today was the 182nd consecutive week that its President Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir Dr Moulvi Muhammad Umar Farooq was neither allowed to offer important Islamic obligation as Friday prayers nor address the faithful at the historic Central Jama Masjid Srinagar. This is extremely unfortunate, shameful and condemnable to restrict Kashmir’s […]
Srinagar: The Jammu & Kashmir government has terminated a Superintendent Jail and a former Assistant Regional Transport officer. In two separate orders,the government has ordered termination of Saleem Ahmad Beig, Superintendent Jail, presently posted at district jail Jammu, and Abdul Majid Bhat, the then I/C ARTO Shopian, presently under suspension. According to the orders, the […]