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 […]
After SP and Kothi Bagh, M P Higher Secondary also to remain shut
Srinagar: Government on late Tuesday evening decided to suspend I the classwork in M P Higher Secondary School also. Earlier government communication said that on Wednesday classwork will remain suspended in S P higher Secondary School and Kothi Bagh Higher Secondary school. However government has decided to resume classwork in Women’s college, S P College, […]
Anticlimax of Jammu nomad family attack, booked by police
Srinagar: On one hand police in Reasi released all the eleven accused of attacking the Gujjar family for transporting cows, on the other the same police has booked four members of the same family on the charge of not seeking the required permission from deputy commissioner to transport bovine. Under the law any person who […]
ECI not serious for by-polls: NC
Srinagar: Opposition National Conference and Congress who boycotted the video conference meeting with ECI said on Tuesday that the Commission was not serious to hold Anantnag by-polls slated for May, 25. Earlier PDP in its meeting with ECI has urged the Commission to postpone the Anantnag election indefinitely because of deteriorating law and order situation […]
Cow vigilantes of Jammu released, Mia Altaf wants action against cops as well
Srinagar: Even as Reasi police released the eleven people who were arrested for attacking a Gujjar family at Talwara with iron rods, Gujjar leader and National Conference senior leader Mian Altaf in a press conference in Jammu has demanded action against the cops who were watching the murderous assault on the Gujjar family. Reports from […]
Pro resistance Kashmiri boys hack University websites
vov web desk According to the news reports in national media some pro protest Kashmiri boys have hacked websites of six prominent universities of India including Delhi university. The hackers have written on the university websites on Tuesday, “Do you know what your so called heroes (soldiers) are doing in Kashmir? Do you know they […]
Mehbooba chairs crucial Security meet.
Srinagar:A crucial meeting of the unified headquarters chaired by Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti began in Srinagar on Tuesday to review the deteriorating security situation in the Kashmir. The meeting is being held after Mehbooba returned from Delhi where she discussed situation in the Kashmir Valley with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home […]
