SRINAGAR: The management of the city’s Kashmir Law College has decided to remove its pro-Pakistan principal Dr Sheikh Showkat and initiated the process to appoint a new principal. Showkat has been a hardline ideologue of Pakistan-backed separatist organisations. In 2016, Showkat along with Pakistani sponsored secessionist Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Arundhati Roy, Prof. SAR Geelani […]
SRINAGAR: Acting tough against a group of youths who raised anti-India slogans at historic Jamia Masjid here post congregational Friday prayers, the Jammu and Kashmir Police in nocturnal raids arrested 13 people, mostly youths, on the charge of sedition, it said on Saturday. Police said that dossiers were prepared and all of them were booked […]
SRINAGAR: About 80 lakhs people have visited Kashmir in the last few months, breaking all records of tourist arrivals in the Valley in the last 10 years, Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha said on Saturday and termed the year as the “golden period”. “Record number of people are visiting Kashmir and this is […]
SRINAGAR: Two terrorist, who were involved in recent attacks on civilians, were shot dead in an anti-terror operation in Tral area of Pulwama district in southern Kashmir, police said on Wednesday. “AGuH’s (Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind) Safat Muzzaffar Sofi alias Muavia and LeT’s Umer Teli alias Talha killed in Tral,” Inspector General of Police Vijay Kumar said […]
SRINAGAR: A government school teacher has been suspended and attached to an administrative office following the allegation of corporal punishment to a girl student in Rajouri district. Nisar Ahmed, the teacher, posted at Government Middle School Khadurian in Draman panchayat of Kotranka sub division, was attached to the office of Additional Deputy Commissioner after parents […]
SRINAGAR: The killing of a CRPF jawan and injuries to four others including a Kashmiri Pandit in separate terror attacks have been widely condemned by civil society, politicians, and trade bodies in the Valley, with many of them slamming Pakistan for unleashing violence during the holy month of Ramzan. On Monday, a CRPF jawan was […]
SRINAGAR: A jawan of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was killed and another was injured in a terror attack in Srinagar city, and three civilians including two non-Kashmiris were wounded in two different attacks in southern Kashmir on Monday. Head Constable Vishal Kumar and Assistant Sub-Inspector Niran Jan Singh were critically injured after terrorists […]
SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday terminated the services of five of its employees including two policemen for allegedly having links with terror outfits. The five employees, who have been terminated under Article 311(2)(C) of the Constitution, include two policemen, a computer operator, a teacher, one nursing orderly with J&K health department. Article […]
PULWAMA (J&K): Located in the hotbed of terrorism in the Valley, Lassipora and Oukhoo villages in south Kashmir’s Pulwama have emerged as a hub of pencil slate manufacturing over the years, contributing to the economic growth of Jammu and Kashmir, and providing employment to thousands of locals. Dozens of units, many operating inside residential buildings, […]
SRINAGAR: A Special Police Officer (SPO) of the Jammu and Kashmir Police and his brother were shot dead by terrorists belonging to the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in Kashmir’s Budgam district on Saturday. This is the third consecutive terror attack in the district this month and the second within a week. The police said that the terrorists […]