Srinagar, May 3 (IANS) Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President, Mehbooba Mufti, alleged on Sunday that there is an agenda to close educational institutions and delete the Urdu language to erase Muslim culture and identity of the Union Territory. Addressing a largely attended PDP workers convention in north Kashmir’s Ganderbal district, Mufti said, “The educational institutions like Sirajul Uloom, which provided education to poor children and had often…
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Srinagar, April 16 (IANS) Continuing its sustained drive against drug trafficking under the ongoing “Nasha-Mukt Jammu & Kashmir Abhiyan”, police in J&K’s Ganderbal achieved a significant success on Thursday.In a specific and credible input received through reliable sources, Police Station Kangan was informed that Javed Ahmad Dar, son of Abdul Rehim Dar, resident of Khanan Kangan, had concealed a contraband substance (Charas-like material) in a cowshed adjacent to his residence, a police …
Jammu, April 4 (IANS) Ruling National Conference (NC) and Congress MLAs on Saturday expressed serious concern over the Ganderbal ‘encounter’ in which one person, allegedly a civilian, was killed as they demanded a judicial probe into the incident.During the Question Hour, NC legislators stood up alleging that an innocent has been killed in a staged gunfight in Ganderbal.”It shouldn’t happen. We admit that the L-G has ordered an inquiry, but the Home Department should send out a message tha…
Srinagar, March 26 (IANS) The Counter-Intelligence Kashmir (CIK) wing of Jammu and Kashmir Police on Thursday raided multiple locations across the Valley in connection with a transnational terror module linked to the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror outfit.A spokesperson of the CIK said on Thursday that the sleuths of CIK conducted raids at multiple locations across the Valley in connection with a transnational terror module linked to the banned terrorist outfit LeT.Officials said the CIK, the Intel…
Srinagar, Feb 24 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, on Tuesday, ordered a probe into the alleged harassment of Kashmiri students at the CT University in Punjab’s Ludhiana. Omar Abdullah ordered the probe after reports that Kashmiri Muslim students at the CT University were forced to leave the campus following a dispute related to arrangements for ‘Sehri’ (predawn meal) and ‘Iftar’ (post dusk meal) during the holy month of Ramzan.Reacting to the controversy, the Chief Minister…
Srinagar, Feb 1 (IANS) Due to nightlong cloud cover, the minimum temperature rose above freezing point in Srinagar city as rain and snow lashed Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday.Srinagar city recorded 2 degrees Celsius as the minimum temperature, while popular tourist destinations Gulmarg and Pahalgam recorded minus 7 and minus 1.4 degrees Celsius, respectively.Jammu city had 9.9 degrees Celsius, Katra town 9.6, Batote 4.2, Banihal 2.4 and Bhaderwah 0.9 as the minimum temperature.The day temperature h…
Srinagar, Jan 29 (IANS) The night temperature throughout Kashmir dropped notches below the freezing point on Thursday, while the ski resort of Gulmarg recorded minus 9 degrees Celsius as the minimum temperature.Srinagar city had minus 0.6 degrees Celsius, and Pahalgam had a minimum temperature of minus 4.5.Jammu city had 7.2 degrees Celsius, Katra town 6.4, Batote 0.9, Banihal minus 2.6 and Bhaderwah minus 3.4.The Meteorological (MeT) Department has forecast generally dry, cloudy weather till Ja…
Srinagar, Jan 23 (IANS) Due to gusty winds and snowfall mostly in the southern districts of Kashmir, both air and surface transport were adversely affected on Friday.Reports from Anantnag, Pulwama, Kulgam and Shopian districts said snowfall occurred overnight in these districts and was continuing.Srinagar, Ganderbal and other parts in central and northern districts were mostly lashed with rainfall overnight, and snowfall started in Srinagar city in the morning.Snow accumulation on Srinagar inter…