Kathua case: Meerut student went to J&K to rape 8-yr-old, says chargesheet
New Delhi: In a shocking incident, an eight-year-old girl, Asifa, who had gone to graze her horses in the nearby forests to her home on January 10, was reportedly gangraped repeatedly inside a village temple premises, kept sedated for hours and then raped again before being killed in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua by six men. One […]
Div Com visits Hazratbal shrine, takes stock of Me’raj arrangements
SRINAGAR, APRIL 12: Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Baseer Ahmad Khan along with Deputy Commissioner Srinagar, Syed Abid Rasheed Shah today visited Hazratbal shrine here to take stock of arrangements put in place for the auspicious occasion of Shab-e-Me’raj. Senior officers of PDD, PHE, SMC, Transport, Health and other line departments accompanied the Divisional Commissioner. On the […]
Two months after death cancer patient gets emergency MRI appointment
Srinagar: Grief revisited the family of Lal Jan in north Kashmir weeks after her death due to cancer. Last week a phone call from SKIMS Soura informed them that the patient is listed for emergency MRI scan on Saturday. The 44-year-old Lal Jan of Mawar in Kupwara district died at SKIMS Soura on February 13, […]
Kashmir shuts to mourn Kulgam civilian killings
Srinagar,: The people of Kashmir on Thursday observed a complete shutdown against the killing of four civilians at the hands of government forces on Wednesday at Khudwani Kulgam. To maintain law and order the authorities places strict restriction in parts of Srinagar city including at the Old City. The Mobile internet was also snapped in […]
Unpaid laborers stopped Flyover construction work
Srinagar, : The laborers working for construction of Kashmir Valley’s one of the acclaimed project, Jahangir Chowk-Barzulla Flyover has been stopped in backdrop of the nonpayment from the last four months. The Jammu and Kashmir Economic Reconstruction Agency (ERA) is an executing agency of the project which had outsourced the construction work of the project […]
Basant Rath seizes PDP leaders car, sends him home in his own vehicle
SRINAGAR: State’s traffic manager Basant Rath has seized the vehicle of a former lawmaker and district president for violating a traffic law, sources said. He was driven to his home in the officer’s vehicle. Official sources said Rath has intercepted the vehicle of a former PDP Lawmaker who was travelling in his official car. During […]
JRL calls for peaceful protests after Friday prayers
Srinagar: The Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) led by Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik on Thursday called for peace full Kashmir-wide protests after Friday congregational prayers against killing of civilians, indiscriminate use of pellet and vandalising of properties and impressed all sections of society including Aema Masajid, teachers, lawyers, intellectuals, civil […]
Kathua and Unnao rape cases: ‘Betiyaan chuppao’ or ‘Betiyaan padhao?’: Kapil Sibal asks PM Modi
New Delhi: Congress’ Kapil Sibal, on Thursday, asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi if he is trying to give the message ‘Betiyaan chuppao’ instead of ‘Betiyaan padhao’, in context of the Kathua and Unnao rape cases. “Prime Minister, do you want to give the message of ‘Betiyaan chuppao’ or Beti Bachao’?” asked Sibal.The statement came a […]
Geelani condemns civilian killings in Kulgam, appeals UN to take cognizance
Srinagar, April 12: Syed Ali Geelani while condemning the civilian killing in Khudwani Kulgam in South Kashmir, said the innocent civilians in occupied Jammu and Kashmir are facing worst type of state sponsored terrorism. Terming the killing as “cold-blooded murder”, Syed Ali Geelani said this is a “worst kind of state terrorism of India in Jammu […]
Chinese baby born four years after parents’ death in car crash
Beijing: A surrogate mother has given birth to a baby boy in China four years after his parents died in a car crash, Chinese media reported. The deceased couple was undergoing fertility treatments before the fatal accident in 2013. Their parents fought a drawn-out legal battle to gain access to the couple’s fertilised embryos, kept in […]
