Former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah has criticised the timing of changing the state DGP, saying there was no hurry to replace S P Vaid and the state police could do without having to deal with the confusion of leadership. The state government removed Vaid as the DGP late Thursday night and handed the charge to DG Prisons Dilbagh Singh till[Read More…]
IPS officer Dilbagh Singh was on Thursday given additional charge as the Director General of Police (DGP) in Jammu and Kashmir in place of S.P. Vaid. An official order late Thursday evening said Dilbagh Singh, an IPS officer of the 1987 batch, would be the DGP apart from holding the[Read More…]
National Conference (NC) emerges as the single largest party with ten seats in the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council as people of Kargil gives a hung verdict in the elections. The Council consists of total 30 seats and the election is held on 26 seats only. Now the Independent Councillors[Read More…]
Ravinder Raina, the Bharatiya Janata Party President in Jammu and Kashmir has described the new Governor, Satya Pal Malik, as “hamara banda” (our man). “Ab jo Governor aya hai, woh hamara banda hai.” (The new Governor is our man), said Raina the video of which is doing rolls on the[Read More…]
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday arrested Pakistan’s Muzaffarabad-based Hizbul Mujahideen supreme commander Syed Salahuddin’s son, Syed Shakeel Ahmed, during a raid in Srinagar. Shakeel, who used to work as a laboratory technician in Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura, has been under the NIA scanner for his alleged involvement in a 2011 terror funding case.[Read More…]
As the Kerala battles the fury of the flood raging across the state, state government have extended their helping hand in some or the other, and so has the Jammy and Kashmir government. The J&K government on Sunday announced Rs 2 crore financial assistance for the flood hit Kerala. Adding[Read More…]
Justice Gita Mittal became the first-ever woman Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court after she was administered the oath of office by Governor NN Vohra in Srinagar on Saturday. Before being sworn in as the Chief Justice, the court’s Registrar General read out the warrant of Mittal’s appointment.[Read More…]
Srinagar: Shah Faesal, an IAS officer whose recourse to social media attracted disciplinary action earlier, on Sunday compared Article 35A of the Constitution to a marriage deed or ‘nikahnama’. You repeal it and the relationship is over. Nothing will remain to be discussed afterwards, Faesal said. Responding to Faesal’s remarks,[Read More…]
Now virtually at the end of his tenure the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir NN Vohra has put the Union Government in Delhi in a quandary. He has moved the Supreme Court for the deferment of any decision regarding Article 35A that deals with domicile, citizenship, property rights and issues[Read More…]
A man who allegedly tried to break into the former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah’s house. Omar Abdullah took to Twitter to break the news saying details are awaited as security personnel carry out anti-sabotage checks and ascertain the background of the person. I am aware of[Read More…]
Major Leetul Gogoi who was accused of being absent from the place of duty while on-duty and for consorting with a local woman during duty has been found guilty by the Army’s Court of Inquiry (CoI). On May 23, the Major was seen was spotted in a Srinagar hotel with[Read More…]
Jammu and Kashmir’s first woman chief minister describes her experience working with the coalition of BJP as ‘not easy’. She compared it with having a cup of poison. This was her first public meeting ever since she left chief minister position last month after BJP took away its support in[Read More…]
Despite the fact that the sole MP from Ladakh belongs to Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party, Congress won the Shey-Thiksay seat in the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC), which runs the key district of Leh. The election which were held last month, went unnoticed by national media, but it is[Read More…]
Sartaj Madni, uncle of former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, on Monday resigned as the Vice President of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Speaking to the media, Madni said he was stepping down from the post in the larger interests of the party. He said he has already[Read More…]
Three civilians, one of them a teenage girl, died as the army allegedly fired at protesters during a cordon and search operation (CASO) in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district. They have been identified as Shakir Ahmad (22), Irshad Majid (20) and Andleeb (16). A hospital source in Frisal area, near Redwini,[Read More…]
Authorities on Friday placed two senior separatist leaders under detention in Jammu and Kashmir ahead of a separatist-called shutdown on July 8, the second death anniversary of Hizbul commander Burhan Wani. While Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umer Farooq was placed under house arrest at his Nigeen residence, JKLF leader Yasin Malik[Read More…]
New Delhi: Among the 108 most backward districts across the country, Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara has shown the least improvement while Gujarat’s Dahod has shown the most, the NITI Aayog said on Friday. Releasing the first delta ranking of the most backward districts in the country — which the NITI[Read More…]
New Delhi: The BJP was pulling out of its alliance with the PDP in Jammu and Kashmir, the party’s general secretary Ram Madhav said here today. It has become untenable for the BJP to continue in the alliance government in the state, Madhav said at a press conference. He said the[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday pulled up Jammu lawyers for obstructing the filing of charge sheet in the Kathua minor rape and murder case even as they claimed they were protesting on a different issue. “We are not concerned with anything, we are concerned with fair trial. You[Read More…]
Srinagar: Security was heightened in some parts of Srinagar city on Friday to prevent separatist called protests against civilian killings. The Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL), a separatist conglomerate headed by Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik, has called for peaceful protests after the congressional Friday prayers[Read More…]
Srinagar: An Indian soldier and three civilians were killed on Wednesday as a gunfight between security forces and militants in Jammu and Kashmir triggered violent street protests. Doctors said a civilian, Faisal Elahi, 15, was brought to a hospital in Qaimoh town in Kulgam district and he succumbed to critical[Read More…]
Jammu: A prisoner was attacked by a fellow inmate with an iron rod inside Kathua District Jail on Saturday. The Jammu and Kashmir Police said the victim was shifted to a hospital. Dilshad Hussain was attacked by Saddam Hussain, police identified the prisoners. Dilshad Hussain was shifted to Jammu Medical[Read More…]
Srinagar: Authorities imposed restrictions in parts of Srinagar city and some other places in the Kashmir Valley on Friday to prevent separatist called protests. The Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL), a separatist conglomerate headed by Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik, has called for peaceful protests after[Read More…]
Srinagar: Normal life was derailed in the Kashmir Valley on Wednesday as separatists announced a protest march to Shopian town in solidarity with civilians killed in fighting between militants and security forces. As train services remained suspended for a third consecutive day, the authorities closed all educational institutions and postponed[Read More…]
Srinagar: Heavy deployment of security forces was made in Srinagar and other sensitive places in the Kashmir Valley to maintain peace and law and order, even though the separatists did not call for a shutdown, officials said. The authorities decided to close all educational institutions and postpone exams scheduled for[Read More…]
