SPO decamps with 8 weapons

Srinagar: A special police officer (SPO) posted at the official residence of MLA Wachi has decamped with seven rifles and a pistol. Sources said that SPO, Adil Bashir, who was posted at the PDP MLA’s official residence at Jawahar Nagar in Srinagar decamped with 7 rifles and a pistol. However, some sources said that nine […]

Civic polls will help re-establish grassroots democracy in J&K: Rajnath  

PHC, primary schools, Anganwadi centres to be under panchayats

 New Delhi, Sept 28:  For the first time, primary health centres, primary schools and Anganwadi centres in Jammu and Kashmir will come under the administrative control of the panchayats when elections to the local body will be completed next month, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said Friday. The Home minister said powers for ‘own fund generation’ […]

HC seeks details about recovery of properties

Gulmarg: Expiry of lease and license

Srinagar September 28: The High Court on Friday directed the government to file the details of recovery of the properties in the form of land for which lease and license has expired in the tourist resort of Gulmarg. Following reports of illegal possession of large amounts of land by influential businessmen and political families at […]

PDP’s Bukhari welcomes idea of tying up with NC

NC’s Altaf signals green but says, ‘‘top leaders alone could decide on tie up’

Srinagar, Sep 28: Former Finance Minister and senior PDP leader Syed Altaf Bukhari on Friday welcomed the suggestion of J&K Civil Society Coordination Committee for a tie up between NC and PDP for formation of a new government in Jammu and Kashmir to defend Article 35-A and to fight communal forces. “The suggestion of J&K […]

Altaf Bukhari living in ‘wonderland’: Abid Ansari

‘He should get his arithmetic right before day dreaming’

Srinagar, Sep 14: MLA Zadibal Abid Hussain Ansari trained guns at his former PDP colleague Friday saying that Altaf Bukhari was living in a wonderland cut away from the reality. Lashing out at Bukhari, Abid Ansari asked him to get his sense of arithmetic checked before “day-dreaming under the fig-leaf of a moral stand”0 that […]

Shutdown disrupts normal life in Kashmir

Srinagar, Sept 28: Normal life was affected in Kashmir on Friday due to a strike called by separatists to protest killing of a civilian during a cordon and search operation in the city yesterday. Authorities had imposed restrictions in parts of Srinagar to maintain law and order. Educational institutions, shops and private offices remained closed […]

Malik arrested, Mirwaiz under house detention

Srinagar, Sep 28: Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Muhammad Yasin Malik was arrested while Hurriyat-M chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was placed under house-arrest on Friday, to prevent them from leading protests against the killing of a youth in Noorbagh Srinagar. A JKLF spokesman said that a police party arrived at the Maisuma residence of […]

Schools asked to celebrate ‘surgical strike day’

Srinagar, Sep 28: Jammu and Kashmir government has asked Education department officials to organise activities in public schools from September 28 to 30 to celebrate “surgical strike day” and submit photos and videos of the celebrations by October 01. According to a circular by the Secretary, Education department, Wednesday, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry had […]

Estates official booked for cheating

Srinagar, Sep 28: Crime Branch on Friday registered case against an Estates department official for duping gullible people on the pretext of offering them government plots for residential purposes. “Acting on a complaint, it was found that an official of Estates department projected himself as a member of an NGO involved in arranging plots for […]