Clashes near Chattabal encounter site
Clashes have erupted in many localities around Chattabal on Saturday after a gunfight erupted between militants and security forces. Earlier when security forces were laying seige of Gasi Muhala of Chattabal with inputs about the presence of militants, one CRPF officer was injured in the gunfight and was taken to army hospital said the police. […]
Police arrest Yasin Malik and house arrest Mirwaiz
As JRL was scheduled to hold a press conference today, police has arrested Yasin Malik and have put Mirwaiz Umar Farooq under house detention. JRL leaders recently held a meeting at Hyderpora residence of Geelani in which they said that people of J&K cannot watch silently while the government forces were killing innocent people in […]
Superstorms death toll rises to 150 in India
AGRA: A series of powerful super storms that tore through India this week have killed around 150 people, as officials warned Friday the death toll could rise with more extreme weather expected. A deadly dust storm claimed 125 lives in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Punjab, while an electric storm, in which lightning struck an […]
Death penalty cold-blooded killing: Nirbhaya rapists ask SC to spare life
New Delhi: Four of the men who gangraped and tortured a paramedic student from Delhi on a moving bus in December 16, 2012, leaving the nation in shock and rage, asked the Supreme Court to spare them the death sentence as it was “cold-blooded killing in the name of Justice.” As the court reserved its verdict, […]
Harry Potter star Emma Watson backs Kathua rape victim’s lawyer
NewDelhi, May 05:-“Harry Potter” star Emma Watson on Friday tweeted in support of Indian lawyer Deepika Singh Rajwat, who is fighting the case of a minor girl whose rape and murder in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir sent shockwaves globally. Watson on Friday shared an article about “How the Kathua rape case lawyer is […]
Parvez Ahmed lays foundation stone of J&K Bank Complex at IGC Samba
Srinagar, : J&K Bank Chairman and CEO Parvez Ahmed today laid the foundation stone of the Bank’s Complex at Industrial Growth Centre, Samba in presence of the Deputy Commissioner Samba, SSP Samba, Vice Presidents of the Bank, officials of SIDCO and leading industrialists of the IGC Samba besides prominent citizens of the area. J&K Bank complex […]
No manpower available for security to Ex-panchs, Sarpanchs, protected persons: DGP
Srinagar, : Director General of Police (DGP) Dr S P Vaid here on Friday said that police department has not the manpower available required for providing security to all Ex-panchs, Sarpanchs and protected persons numbering around forty thousand across the state. Talking to Kashmir News Service (KNS), Vaid said it is not humanly possible […]
Politicisation of Private Schools won’t be allowed
Srinagar, : Coming down heavily on an unknown organisation by the name of J&K Joint Coordination Committee of Private Schools started with some ulterior looking motives, two main organisations representing private schools in Kashmir valley have distanced itself from the body. The Private Schools Association of Kashmir (PSAK) and Joint Committee of Private Schools (JCPS) […]
Afghan official: Taliban take district in northern province
kabul:-An Afghan official says the Taliban have captured another district in the northern provinceof Badakhshan.Abdullah Naji Nazari, a provincial council member, says the insurgents launched a surprise attack on Thursday in the strategic Kohistanat district, which is located along a routeto the provincial capital, Fayz Abad. Nazari says no casualties were reported in the day-long […]
Two teachers suspended for sending ‘lewd’ messages to female students, probe ordered
srinagar:-Police have registered a case against two teachers for allegedly sending objectionable messages to female students over mobile messaging app WhatsApp in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district, officials said on Friday. Officials said the two teachers of Government High School Hangha in Handwara have been suspended and an enquiry has been initiated against them. Chief education […]
