Another PDP leader quits party in Banihal
Agencies Banihal: The PDP Monday suffered another setback when its senior leader and former bureaucrat Bashir Ahmad Runyal announced his decision to quit the party. Runyal, a former IAS officer who was Ramban district president and state secretary of the PDP, had joined the party prior to the 2014 assembly polls after his retirement […]
Shutdown in Tral on 3rd day against militant killings
Srinagar: Tral township of southern Kashmir’s Pulwama district is observing a shutdown for the third consecutive day on Monday against the killing of six militants in a gunfight in Armpora village on Saturday. All shops and businesses establishments are closed, while traffic was off the roads in the town. On Saturday six militants of Ansar Gazwat-ul-hind […]
Train services suspended as gunfight rages again
I reports said that clashes erupted amid cordon and search operation in armpora village of Tral in pulwama district on saturday morning. Reports said that gunfight was going on till this report was being filed. However police said that they have killed six militants in the village and claimed that there was no colletral damage […]
Police say six militants killed in Tral
Police in Srinagar told media that six militants were killed in an ongoing gunfight at armpora village of Tral in pulwama district on saturday morning. Police said that they have yet to identify all the slain militants .police claimed that all the killed in the encounter were militants and one of them was a foreign […]
Autonomy an outdated formula: Er Rasheed
Srinagar : Appealing NC president Dr Farooq Abdullah to show consistency and sincerity, AIP President Er Rasheed on Friday said that restoration of Autonomy cannot be a permanent solution to the seventy yearlong internationally recognized dispute which has claimed more than five lac lives since 1947. In a statement, while reacting to Farooq Abdullah’s claim […]
Army officer killed, another injured in sniper attack along LoC in Kupwara
Srinagar :An army officer was killed and another injured critically in a ‘sniper attack’ by Pakistan army along the Line of Control in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Friday afternoon. Official sources told a local news agency that Pakistan army in “violation of ceasefire” opened the sniper fire upon the army’s 2/8 GR posts in […]
Protests in Pulwama after Friday prayers
Srinagar: Scores of people on Friday held protests in main town Pulwama followed by clashes between youth and forces. Soon after the culmination of Friday prayers here at Markazi Jamia Masjid Pulwama. People held protests against the recent civilian killings in Sirnoo Pulwama while as youth also pelted forces with stones. Meanwhile, on the seventh […]
US lawmakers say troops withdrawal from Afghanistan risky
Washington : Any hasty withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, as in the case of Syria, would pave way for another 9/11, top US lawmakers and experts have warned. President Donald Trump on Wednesday decided to pull out a significant number of American troops from Afghanistan, a day after he announced a withdrawal from Syria. Currently, […]
Govt cancels employees attachment orders
Srinagar : Amid protest by secretariat employees, the government has ordered cancellation of attachments of Government Employees. “The undersigned is directed to invite the attention of all the Administrative Secretaries to the Circular No. 22-GAD of 2018 dated 06-07-2018, regarding the captioned subject and to request them to implement the instructions contained in the aforementioned circular […]
Class 11 student killed in road accident in north Kashmir’s Pattan
Srinagar: A class 11 student died in a road accident in North Kashmir’s Baramulla late last evening. Reports said that Mohammad Sultan Dar son of Mohammad Maqbool Dar, a resident of Tapper Pattan was critically injured after a Tractor in which he was traveling turned turtle near Kreeri. Dar received serious injuries and was taken to […]
