On Harassment of Kashmiri Students
By: Muzamil Manzoor The aftermath of Pulwama suicide attack has been unsettling for all as the students as well as travellers and traders of Kashmir in other parts of India were persecuted, humiliated, debunked and threatened. Many students were attacked as the mobs blamed their Kashmiri identity as being synonymous with being ‘traitors’, ‘Pak lovers’ […]
Understand people’s anxieties
Years and decades of systematic disenfranchisement and constant bullying have sowed the seeds of anger and aversion so deep into the popular psyche in Kashmir that the situation here remains ever-volatile. All it needs is a trigger for the pent-up rage to spill over, out in open, and incinerate everything – the government, its credibility, […]
Div Com Jammu inspects construction of bunkers along IB
JAMMU, MARCH 06: Divisional Commissioner, Jammu Sanjeev Verma took an extensive tour of various border villages of Sub-Division, Marh to inspect the construction of bunkers along International Border. He was accompanied by Additional Deputy Commissioner, Jammu Rashpal Singh, SDM Marh, Tariq Hussain Naik and other officers of Revenue and R&B Department. During his tour, he […]
UK negotiator reports ‘robust’ Brexit talks in Brussels
London, Mar 6 : One of Britain’s Brexit negotiators said Wednesday he had held a “robust” discussion with European Union counterparts over how to get a withdrawal deal through parliament in London. Speaking after talks with EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier in Brussels on Tuesday, Attorney General Geoffrey Cox said he had put forward some […]
No further extension in winter vacations: Ganai
Directs officials to conduct exams on time
SRINAGAR, MARCH 6: Advisor to Governor, Khursheed Ahmad Ganai, who holds the charge of Education Department, today said that there will be no further extension in winter vacations beyond March 9 and all schools, colleges will open from March 11. Chairing a high level meeting attended by the Vice Chancellors, College Principals, Controller of Examinations […]
China sends Vice Foreign Minister to Pak to discuss Indo-Pak tensions
Beijing: China said Wednesday that it has despatched Vice Foreign Minister Kong Xuanyou to Islamabad to discuss the Indo-Pak tensions following the Pulwama attack. “He (Kong) is now visiting Pakistan. He is in communication with Pakistan on the India-Pakistan situation,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang told a media briefing here. Tensions escalated between India […]
Pakistan to send envoy Sohail Mahmood back to India
Islamabad: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Wednesday said Pakistan is sending its envoy back to India and is ready to engage with New Delhi to reduce tensions which are “de-escalating” due to diplomatic efforts by countries like the US, China and Russia. Qureshi said it is time to end all our conflicts and move […]
India, Pak troops trade fire across LoC in Rajouri, Poonch
Jammu, Mar 06: Indian and Pakistani troops Wednesday traded fire along the Line of Control in Rajouri and Poonch district, officials said. “Pakistan army Wednesday targeted dozens of forward posts and villages with artillery guns along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri and Poonch districts”, officials said. The intense shelling and […]
UN chief spoke with India, Pak officials not PMs on rising tensions: official
United Nations: UN chief Antonio Guterres has not spoken with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Imran Khan, but discussed with officials from India and Pakistan the heightened tensions arising after the Pulwama attack, a top official has said. Tensions escalated between India and Pakistan in the wake of the Pulwama attack in […]
Afghan official: Suicide blast near airport in east kills four
Kabul: An Afghan official says militants set off a suicide blast and stormed a construction company near the main airport in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, killing at least 4 people. The province’s police chief, Gen. Ghulam Sanayee Stanikzai, says five people were also wounded when the bomber, who was on foot, detonated […]
