Next month, Kashmir will mark the second anniversary of the 2016 agitation. The year 2016 will, unarguably, go down in the history of Kashmir as annus horribilis. Over a hundred persons were killed, thousands injured, hundreds blinded for life, many thousand jailed, and businesses suffered immensely. The repeated imposition of e-curfew, which has since become […]
Rashtriya Kisan Mahasangh (RKM), a conglomerate of 132 farmer organisations of India, started their Kisan adhikar Yatra from Handwara today to press for their demands. The conglomerate said that they shall do the march from “Kashmir to Kanyakumari” to highlight the plight of the farmers. In this connection, J&K Zamindar Bachao Forum (Part of Rashtriya […]
Reacting to the news item appeared in a local daily regarding the deteriorating condition of Wullar Lake, the J&K Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) President G.A.Mir today said that Wullar Lake is facing a silent death due to the negligent attitude of the authorities and strongly urged that dredging should take place in the lake on […]
A mob beat a Muslim man to death in Rajasthan’s Alwar district on Friday night, suspecting him to be a cow smuggler, reports said. Akbar Khan, 28, and his unidentified associate were attacked in a place called Ramgarh while they were transporting cattle to Haryana, where he lived in Ferozepur Jhirka district. Alwar has witnessed […]
With profound grief, we inform the sad demise of Mir Abdul Majeed, son of late Mir Ghulam Ahmad of Bazar Batamaloo, Srinagar. He breathed his last on Friday evening after suffering cardiac arrest while he was attending his chemist shop. Mourning period will last for three days and there will be no Chaharum. Ladies are […]
Intelligence agencies have warned that chief of Ansar Gazwat-ul-Hind, Al-Qaeda’s Kashmir branch, Zakir Rashid Bhat aka Musa is planning a fidayeen attack on police personnel deployed in Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir, Zee Tv reported on Thursday. Zakir Musa, the report said, is sending recruits to Jammu and Kashmir region to prepare for the attack, […]
Einstein once said, “The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything”. So allowing the crime of rank immorality to happen is more a dangerous act than the act itself. By Tariq Ali Mir Court of second additional session judge Srinagar Tahir Khurshid Raina […]
The flight carrying former premier Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz landed at Lahore’s Allama Iqbal International Airport around 8:45pm PST on Friday night and were taken into custody by National Accountability Bureau (NAB) officials around 9:25pm. According to media reports, dozens of security officials entered the plane after it landed and asked other passengers to […]
By Aasif Sultan Srinagar: Valley’s leading missionary school Tyndale Biscoe School, situated in the heart of Srinagar, has been declared “no longer safe place after the killing of Editor Mr. Shujaat Bukhari” who was shot dead by gunmen in broad daylight at Kashmir’s Press Enclave, stone’s throw from the school, on 14 June along with […]
Ten people were killed and 73 wounded when a train came off the rails in northwest Turkey on Sunday after heavy rain and a landslide, Turkish television channels quoted a health ministry official as saying. The train was carrying 362 passengers and was headed to Istanbul when five carriages came off the tracks, the transport ministry said […]