Nobel Prize in literature 2018 cancelled after sexual assault scandal
Copenhagen: The Nobel Prize in literature will be not awarded this year following sex-abuse allegations and other issues within the ranks of the Swedish Academy that selects the winner. The academy said Friday the 2018 prize will be given in 2019. The decision was made at a weekly meeting in Stockholm a day earlier, on […]
Unidentified body recovered in Srinagar: Police
Srinagar: Police on Friday, received an information telephonically that an unidentified body was lying in a Nallah at Kokerbagh Zoonimar area of Soura in Srinagar, Police said. On receiving the information, a police team from Soura Police Station reached the spot and recovered the body. The body has been kept in the mortuary at PCR […]
JKLF protests in Srinagar against Kashmir killings
Srinagar : Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) on Friday staged a protest in Srinagar against the “horrible rise in innocent civilian killings” in Kashmir. The spokesman said the JKLF leaders and activists holding placards in hands depicting slogans against the killings in Kashmir. He said that indiscriminate use of bullets and pellets resulting in […]
Clashes erupt in Shopian, Pulwama
Srinagar: Clashes between protesters and government forces erupted at Shopian and Pulwama areas on Friday. Reports said that forces resorted to tear smoke shelling on protesters who pelted rocks on them near Shirmal, in south Kashmir’s Shopian. Pertinently, Shopian is observing continuous shutdown against the recent killings. Reports of same kinds of clashes reached from […]
MLA Langate leads protest march in solidarity with AMU students
Handwara: After Friday prayers today hundreds protested against unabated killings in Kashmir and in solidarity with the students of Aligrah Muslim University, led by AIP Supremo and MLA Langate Rahid protesters were holding play card and shouting slogans. Rashid expressed solidarity with the protesting Aligrah Muslim University Students and said that making so much of […]
Bullet and Pellet victims at SMHS hospital alleges medicos negligence
Srinagar, : The patients admitted at Srinagar’s SMHS hospital with bullet and pellet injuries have alleged complete negligence by the doctors and nursing staff which according to them posing a major threat to their lives. Pertinently, dozens of people particularly the youth have been admitted in SMHS hospital Srinagar after getting injured in clashes in […]
Chronic Unemployment adversely impacting life of Kashmiri Youth
Srinagar, ): Unemployment is one of the gravest problems faced by the youth of Kashmir. The unemployment in Kashmir is characterized by lack of opportunities, chronic underemployment or disguised unemployment. The unemployment problem, among youth especially among educated youth is turning out to be disastrous for the healthy growth of society and overall life of […]
Police struggling to check misuse of social media in Kashmir
Srinagar,: Police is finding it difficult to keep a check on unregistered social media groups in Kashmir Valley, leaving room for rumour mongers to play mischief as they have in the past. In 2016, the government made registration of social-media news groups mandatory in Kashmir. The people in charge we asked to obtain permission from […]
JK Bank customers allege fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 1 crore from accounts
Budgam:-Scores of customers of JK Bank Dad Ompora branch in Chadoora area of central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Thursday held a protest demonstration against bank authorities alleging that an amount to the tune of rupees 1 crore has been fraudulently withdrawn from their accounts. Dozens of customers held a demonstration outside SDM office Chadoora against the withdrawal […]
Kashmiri father-of-three suffering from spinal tumour needs help
srinagar:-A Kashmiri father-of-three suffering from spinal tumour needs help to fund his treatment at a hospital in Gurgaon. Sofi Nazir, a resident of Hawal Srinagar, remains currently admitted at Fortis Hospital Gurgaon under UID number 000805306. A family member said that Nazir was diagnosed with Metastatic Paraganglioma (Spinal Tumour) in 2012. “He has three kids […]
