SC transfers Kathua gangrape case to Pathankot

Says:Fear and fair trial contradictory, can’t be allowed to co-exist; no need to handover investigation to any other agency

New Delhi, May 07: The Supreme Court today transferred the trial in the Kathua gangrape and murder case of an eight-year-old girl from Jammu and Kashmir to Pathankot in Punjab, but refrained from handing over the probe to CBI saying there was no need as the investigation has been conducted and the charge-sheet filed. The […]

Tourist dies in stone pelting at Narbal

  Budgam, May 7: One tourist was killed and a local woman got injured as groups of stone pelters targeted vehicles in Narbal area of district Budgam on Srinagar-Gulmarg highway on Monday. In response to a strike and protest call given by joint separatist leadership, dozens of stone pelters threw stones on anything and everything […]

Find a middle path to end cycle of violence in valley: CM to Centre

Asks parents to value life

Srinagar, May 07: Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today appealed to the Centre to find a “middle path” for ending the cycle of violence in the Valley which was consuming the lives of poor youth and government forces. Five Hizbul Mujahideen militants including a top commander and a university professor  were killed in an encounter in […]

Darbar opens in Srinagar

Srinagar, May 07: Civil Secretariat, the seat of the Jammu and Kashmir government, opened here today after functioning in winter capital for six months as part of the nearly 150-year-old practice known in the state as ‘Darbar Move’. Besides the Civil Secretariat, the other move offices, including Raj Bhawan, police headquarters and several commissions opened […]

Separatists ask people to continue shutdown today

Schools, colleges shut for the day; KU postpones exams

Srinagar: Joint separatist leadership today announced that strike across Kashmir will continue on Tuesday also against the killings in Shopian. The leadership comprising of Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik strongly condemned the government’s decision of foiling the protest marches of lawyers, traders, and employees towards the civil secretariat. “Imposition of […]

Shutdown paralyses normal life in Kashmir

Restrictions in Srinagar areas

Srinagar, May 07: Normal life came to a halt in Kashmir Monday on a call for shutdown by separatists to protest the deaths of five civilians near an encounter site in Shopian district yesterday. Separatists — Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik – had called for a complete strike to […]

Traders’ march to secretariat foiled

Srinagar: Police on Monday foiled a protest march of traders to civil secretariat in Srinagar. The traders, representing Kashmir Traders and Manufacturers Federation (KTMF), assembled at Abi Guzar and tried to march towards the civil secretariat, which opened in Srinagar today. However, police foiled the march at the Residency road. The march was organized as […]

Entered to attack security forces: LeT militants tells NIA

New Delhi, May 7: Arrested Lashkar-e-Taiba militant Zabiullah has told the NIA that he had entered India to carry out “large scale attacks” on security forces, National Investigation Agency said today in a statement. He told the agency during the questioning that he had come into India fully armed in March this year, along with […]

Pak PM expresses concern over situation in Kashmir

Islamabad, May 7:  Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi today expressed grave concern over the alleged human rights violations in Kashmir. Five Hizbul Mujahideen militants including a top commander and a fresh recruit — a university contractual teacher — were killed in an encounter in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir yesterday, even as five […]