Name changing seems a gimmick to deflect attention from real issues: Mehbooba
Srinagar : Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president and former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir has hit out at the BJP government over changing names of cities and places in India. Taking to twitter, Mehbooba said that the name changing gimmick is done to deflect attention from real issues. “ At a time when our […]
Kabul attack: Death toll reaches 43
Kabul : An hours-long gun and suicide attack on a Kabul government compound killed at least 43 people, the health ministry said Tuesday, making it one of the deadliest assaults on the Afghan capital this year. No militant group has claimed responsibility for the raid, which caps a bloody year for Afghanistan as long-suffering civilians and security forces are slaughtered […]
Cold wave continues in Kashmir, Drass freezes at minus 19.5
Srinagar: Cold wave continued unabated across Kashmir on Tuesday with minimum temperatures reaching minus 5.5 in Srinagar, minus 7.7 in Pahalgam and minus 7.6 in Gulmarg. An MeT official said that Drass in Kargil was the coldest place in Jammu and Kashmir at minus 19.5 degrees Celsius. The town remained literally frozen as even the maximum […]
Pakistan has a clear policy on Kashmir, not India: Former J&K DGP
Srinagar : Pakistan has a “clear policy” on Kashmir even after change in the government while India doesn’t have the same, former director-general of police, Jammu and Kashmir, K Rajendra Kumar has said. While delivering a lecture on “issues facing Jammu and Kashmir police” at the Pune Union of Working Journalists, former director general of police, […]
Governor dedicates Bhawan-Bhairon Ghati Passenger Ropeway to pilgrims
Jammu : Governor Satya Pal Malik, Chairman of the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board, today inaugurated Bhawan-Bhairon Passenger Ropeway, a high-tech project completed by the Shrine Board for facilitation of the pilgrims visiting the Holy Cave Shrine of Shri Mata Vaishno Deviji. This project was e-inaugurated at a function held at the Raj Bhavan […]
One dead, 5 injured in Ramban road accident
One person died and five others were injured after a car and a passenger cab suffered a collision in Banihal area of Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday. Reports said a private car and a passenger cab collided near Gund Tethar Banihal on Srinagar-Jammu highway, resulting into death of one person and injuries […]
Pakistan PM Imran Khan should learn from India: Assaduddin Owaisi
Hyderabad: Member of Parliament and AIMIM president Assaduddin Owaisi took to Twitter to hit out at Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan over the latter’s remark that he would show the Narendra Modi government “how to treat minorities”. In a tweet on Sunday, Owaisi said Khan should instead take a lesson from India’s inclusive politics and minority […]
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 […]
