One injured in Sumbal blast
Srinagar: In a mysterious blast, one person was injured in Sumbal areas of Bandipora on Wednesday police said. According to police the injured has been identified as Ghulam Muhammad who was working in his field and a blast did take place. It was not immediately known how the injured person received the injuries and how […]
Government suspends social media for month.
Srinagar: It is official now as the J&K Government has ordered ban on internet services in entire Kashmir Valley for one month. The order has not mentioned whether the ban includes only mobile internet or all internet providing services here. “Internet services in Kashmir shall not be permitted to be transmitted for a period of […]
Protests continue across Kashmir
Srinagar: Students protests continued on Wednesday across Kashmir Valley especially in the rural areas. Student’s protests were witnessed at Ganderbal, Kaloosa, Bandipora, Shopian, Pulwama and Bijbehara. Reports from these areas on Wednesday afternoon said that clashes were going on between students and police at number of places. At least 12 students were injured in police […]
Mehbooba Mia lock horns on nomad family attack
Srinagar: Prominent Gujjar leader Mia Altaf on Wednesday told Voice of Valley that Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti was directly responsible for the growing attacks on the nomad families in Jammu region at the hands of Hindu fascists. He said that first through her BJP forest minister, she displaced dozens of Gujjar families from many […]
Clamor for lifting ban on internet increases
Srinagar: Students and business community in Kashmir have appealed government to revoke ban on the use of internet and have said that it was hindering their activity. The business community said that the government does not want the people of Kashmir to prosper and intermittent ban on the internet services has doomed business. Similarly, […]
Mirwaiz released, Geelani continues under house arrest
Srinagar: The government has lifted the restrictions on the movement of Mirwaiz Omar Farooq who was under house arrest from the past eight weeks. He was not even allowed to go for Friday prayers to Jamia Masjid Srinagar. But the curbs on the ailing Syed Ali Shah Geelani continue at his Hyderpora residence. From […]
Student protest trigger shutdown in Bandipora
Srinagar: Hundreds of students in Kaloosa and adjoining villages held protests raising pro-freedom and anti-government slogans on Wednesday. Recent report said that the students and police clashed triggering chaos and panic in entire Bandipora town. The police action finally resulted in shut down in the main Bandipora market. There was no immediate report about […]
Blast accused Kashmiri scholar gets bail after 16 years
Srinagar: Supreme Court on Tuesday granted bail to a Ph.D. scholar of Aligarh Muslim University, Gulzar Ahmed Wani a resident of Kashmir, after he spent 16 years in jail. Wani was arrested by Delhi police in 2001 and claimed at that time that they have arrested him with explosives and other material. He was […]
Shut down in Maisuma continues.
Srinagar: A complete shutdown was observed in Maisuma locality in the heart of Srinagar city for the fourth consecutive day on Tuesday. All the shops and business establishments remained closed throughout the day. The shutdown is being observed in wake of the continuous detention of local youth Ashiq Ahmed who has again been booked under […]
Jamat for students of Kashmir
Srinagar: Jamat-i-Islami on Tuesday said police and security forces were deliberately stonewalling the efforts of students to resume their classwork and blamed them for vitiating the atmosphere around these educational institutions. Jamat said that it was a deliberate attempt on the part of police to provoke teenaged students to pelt stones. They questioned the wisdom […]
