“Adhere to traffic rules to avoid making things difficult for yourself”
IG Traffic reaches Srinagar
Srinagar, March 20: Inspector General of Police (IGP) Traffic J&K, Basant Kumar Rath who arrived here on Tuesday appealed people to avoid making things complicated for them by violating traffic laws. Rath during his maiden interaction with media in Srinagar said: “There is no Sunday no holiday, rain or snow, everyday is a working day […]
BDS students stage protests
Srinagar, March 19: Students of Government Dental College who have been on indefinite strike over the past few days today held protest here demanding ‘strenuous punishment’ to the HoD who has been allegedly vexing harassment to them on various pretexts. The slogan shouting students who had carried banners and placards in their hands which read […]
“Kathua rape-and-murder case will be taken to logical conclusion”
Srinagar, Mar 17: State government on Saturday reiterated its stand on Kathua rape-and-murder case saying there would be no compromise and justice will be done with the family of eight-year old victim Asifa. Talking to media on the sideline of Buyer-Seller meet at Sheri-Kashmir International Conference Centre (SKICC) here, State Finance Minister, Syed Mohammad Altaf […]
PDP rejects CBI probe in Kathua incident
Srinagar, March 15: Reacting to the demand for ally BJP to hand over the refer Kathua rape-and-murder case to CBI for probe, ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday said that central probe agencies have no role when the state police is competent enough to investigate and crack cases on its own. Minister for Disaster […]
Agitating contractors lock-down R&B Chief Engineer’s office
Srinagar, March 14: The valley based contractors, who have been on indefinite strike since February 27, today locked down the office of Chief Engineer, Roads and Buildings (R&B) at Rajbagh as a mark of protest against delay in releasing their pending bills. The protesting contractors, whose strike entered into sixteenth day, assembled at R&B […]
Pro-freedom slogans rock Sri Sri’s function; organisers accused of cheating
Srinagar, March 10: Sher-i-Kashmir International Conference Centre (SKICC), the venue for a peace program organized by ‘The Art of Living Foundation’ Saturday reverberated with ‘pro-freedom’ slogans forcing the chief guest Sri Sri Ravi Shanker to cut-short his speech and leave. As soon as Sri Sri started his speech, people who had arrived from different parts […]
Playing football with Lenin
BY: Murtaza Shibli Russian communist revolutionary Lenin has remained an inspiration for generations of young people across the world in their wars of independence, mainly against Western colonialists. Many freedom fighters in British India – Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs, and others across ethnic or geographic divides were inspired by Leninist ideas. The Bolshevik Revolution of […]
Don’t politicize rape-and-murder case: SWC
Says SWC trying to rehabilitate Kunan-Poshpora rape victims
Srinagar, Mar 08: Terming Kathua rape-and-murder a ‘blot’ on society, State Women’s Commission (SWC) chairperson, Nayeema Ahmad Mehjoor on International Women’s Day today asserted that the incident has tarnished humanity, and should not be ‘politicized’. “I don’t know who is politicizing the incident; what I personally and on behalf of my commission believe is that […]
Shutdown continued for the second consecutive day on Tuesday…
Shutdown continued for the second consecutive day on Tuesday across south Kashmir districts to mourn the Shopian killings Photo /Muneeb-Ul-Islam Majid [email protected] thekashmirimages.com
7 houses gutted in fire
Srinagar, Mar 06: Seven residential structures were destroyed in a devastating blaze at Sheikh Colony Makhdoom Sahab area in old city here this afternoon. Witnesses said seven residential structures were gutted — three of them completely — following short-circuit in one of the houses in congested locality. “Fire broke out at 2: 45 pm this […]
