Airstrikes In Myanmar, Thousand Flee To Neighbouring Thailand
Thai authorities along the country’s northwestern border braced themselves on Monday for a possible influx of more ethnic Karen villagers fleeing new airstrikes from the Myanmar military. Myanmar military aircraft carried out three strikes overnight on Sunday into Monday, according to Free Burma Rangers, a humanitarian relief agency that delivers medical and other assistance to […]
Will Campaign On CAA Backfire Against BJP In Kerala?
As the high voltage campaign enters the last leg in the Kerala Assembly election, the contentious issue of the new Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is taking centre stage again as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s central leaders raking up the issue as the main plank. On Sunday, Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh‘s assertion that the […]
Voices of dissent
There has been a debate in the media circles about the recent summons to former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti and host of other opposition leaders in different places. Is the government trying to silence the voices of dissent or have the investigating agencies firm proof to prove in the court of law that these leaders […]
Municipal councilor, cop killed in north Kashmir attack
A municipal councilor and one Special Police Officer (SPO) were killed in a militant attack on Monday afternoon in the Sopore area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. A local newspaper Kashmir Despatch reported that municipal Councilor Riyaz Ahmad and security guard Shafkat (cop) were attacked by militants in Sopore and were later admitted to hospital. […]
Mehbooba Mufti denied passport, she reacts
By: Tariq Shah VOV Srinagar Government has refused to provide a passport to former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, invoking sharp reaction from her and she said that this is the level of normalcy prevailing in Kashmir valley post abrogation of article 370. Mehbooba Mufti approached the court for getting the passport and […]
Three dead, one missing in separate accidents in J-K
Kathua/Doda (J&K):Three people, including a woman, were killed and one other went missing in two separate road accidents in Kathua and Doda districts of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, officials said. While two-motorcycle borne youths were crushed to death by a truck in Kathua, a woman died and one other person went missing after their […]
DDC Chairperson B’la chairs maiden meet
Takes review of various developmental projects BARAMULLA, MARCH 27: The District Development Council (DDC) Baramulla Chairperson, Safeena Beigh today chaired her maiden meeting at Dak Bungalow, here and took review of the pace and position of various developmental projects undertaken by different executing agencies in the district. The meeting was attended by DDC members, BDC […]
One militant killed in ongoing Shopian gunfight
Shopian: An unidentified militant has been killed in an encounter that raged between government forces and militants in Dangam village of Harmain belt in South Kashmir’s Shopian district on Saturday. A senior police officer told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that one unidentified militant has been killed, saying that his identity is being ascertained. […]
271 fresh COVID-19 cases in J&K
Srinagar: The worrying upward trend of the covid-19 cases continued as Jammu and Kashmir reported 271 fresh covid-19 infections, highest so far this year, in the last 24 hours during which one more person died due to the virus. This is for the second time in two days that J&K reported more than 200 cases […]
Protests take a political turn in Kashmir over the sand extraction contracts
By: Shayib Bhat VOV Srinagar While the JK administration has awarded contracts to outsiders for sand extraction, stone quarrying and mining etc, now the JK Apni Party has decided to intervene in the protests by the locals against such contracts as they have been claiming that such tendering process has left them without any work. […]
