6th semester students of Nawakadal College protest KU’s ‘re-examination’ decision
SRINAGAR: The Bsc and BA 6th semester students of Government College for Women Nawakdal, who have been directed to reappear in exams for skill subjects, staged a protest demonstration against the Kashmir University on Thursday. The girl students holding placards that read “we want solution, not recommendation, revoke the pointless decision” braving bad weather conditions […]
Joblessness, forced isolation due to lockdown adds to crime against women: SSP Srinagar
Srinagar Police starts ‘Women Safety Drive’
Srinagar: Srinagar’s Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Dr Haseeb Mughal on Monday claimed that stress, joblessness and forced isolation following restrictions imposed in the aftermath of the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, have resulted into steep rise in violence against women in Kashmir. Talking to reporters on the occasion of International Women’s Day, SSP Srinagar said […]
Resolve our issues on humanitarian basis: Pak bride’s appeal Indo-Pak PM’s
SRINAGAR: Pakistani origin wives of ex-Kashmiri militants Monday appealed Prime Minister’s of India and Pakistan to address their genuine issues on humanitarian basis. They asked the government to either accept them as Indian nationals or deport them back to Pakistan. Addressing a press conference here, Pak women who along with their Kashmiri spouses had arrived […]
Impasse on mutton rates likely to end by next week: Deputy Director FCSCA
MARCH: Authorities on Friday assured that deadlock over mutton rates would end by next week, as hectic deliberations were going on between the two sides. Deputy Director, Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, Mohammad Akbar said the issue would have been resolved, had dealers agreed to the rates recommended by the committees formed to visit […]
Woman injured during clashes at Nowhatta
SRINAGAR: A woman was injured, after clashes broke out between a group of stone-pelting youth and security government forces post Friday congregational prayers, at Nowhatta area in old city. Witnesses said that as soon as congregational prayers concluded at central Jamia Masjid, a group of youth, amid sloganeering took to the main road, and started […]
Police foil electrical employees protest in Srinagar
SRINAGAR: Police on Monday foiled electrical employee’s sit-in protest here against the government’s alleged ‘lackadaisical’ approach to fulfill their demands including release of salaries and regularization. Shouting slogans, hundreds of electrical employees, under the banner of PDL, TDL Electrical Employees Union, gathered outside the Chief Engineer, Power Development Department (PDD) office, at Exhibition Road and […]
Encroachments along Khushalsar, Gilsar will be removed: Div Com
Srinagar’s water bodies finally catch govt attention…
Srinagar: Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Pandurang K. Pole Saturday assured that illegal constructions that have come up in and around the Khushalsar and Gilsar lakes in Srinagar will be removed shortly. Div Com while lamenting over the ‘deteriorated’ condition of these small lakes, which are connected to each other via narrow strait spanned by a bridge […]
Transporters call off proposed strike after govt ‘nod’ to fare hike
Srinagar: Transporters in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday called off their proposed indefinite strike saying the government had agreed in principle over their demands including a “19 percent hike in fare” besides others. Authorities in the J&K Transport Department, however, did not specify any particular percentage of hike in the fare sanctioned to the transporters. […]
Pak wives of ex-Kashmiri militants hold protest march, appeal PM to resolve their issues
Srinagar: Pakistani origin spouses of ex-Kashmiri militants today held a protest march in city centre Lal Chowk here urging the government to issue travel documents to them so that they could visit their parental homes situated across the Line of Control (LoC). Accusing the government of giving a cold shoulder to their “genuine demands”, the […]
Retail mutton dealer’s hit streets, appeal govt to end stalemate
Srinagar: Retail mutton dealers from Srinagar took to streets here Tuesday, urging the authorities to end ‘stalemate’ over mutton rates. They alleged that the rates fixed by the government, is causing them losses. Scores of retail mutton dealers amid sloganeering assembled at Srinagar’s Press Enclave this afternoon and staged a protest demanding an end to […]
