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Tanta panchayat villagers decide to boycott rural body poll

Tanta panchayat villagers decide to boycott rural body poll

Doda (JK), Nov 13:  Shorn of basic amenities like “bijli, sadak and pani” since ages, the natives of dozen-odd villages of Tanta panchayat in this mountainous district of Jammu and Kashmir Tuesday decided to boycott the rural body polls on November 24. Fed up with the successive governments’ failure to provide even a modicum of […]

 KI News

Don’t want youth to join militancy: Army chief

Don’t want youth to join militancy: Army chief

"Who is saying talks are not going on; Dineshwar Sharma is there with the mandate; if people are not listening to him, what can he do"

Pathankot: Army chief Bipin Rawat Monday said the Army’s focus was to ensure that the Kashmiri youths do not join militancy. “The government has a clear cut policy that it will not allow terrorists to create violence. Anybody who creates violence will be neutralised,” he told reporters here. Rawat, who was on a two-day visit […]

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Higher reaches get fresh snowfall

Higher reaches get fresh snowfall

Mughal road, Srinagar-Kargil highway closed

Srinagar, Nov 12: The higher reaches of Jammu and Kashmir experienced fresh snowfall following which the Mughal road, connecting the twin districts of Poonch and Rajouri in Jammu region with south Kashmir’s Shopian district, was closed for traffic Monday as a precautionary measure. Light snowfall was reported from various high-altitude areas, including Peer Ki Gali […]

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Devotees offer Khoja Digar prayers at Naqashbandh Sahib

Devotees offer Khoja Digar prayers at Naqashbandh Sahib

SRINAGAR, NOVEMBER 11: The Urs of Hazrat Khwaja Bahaudin (RA) was today observed with religious gaiety and fervour in Naqsband sahib shrine here at Khwaja Bazar, Nowhatta. Thousands of devotees thronged the shrine to pay their obeisance and offered congregational prayers called “Khoja Digar”. The tradition continues from the times of Hazrat Khwaja Khawand Mahmood […]

 Majid Kapra

CUK students demand release of detained colleagues

CUK students demand release of detained colleagues

Srinagar, Nov 12: Students of Central University Kashmir (CUK) Monday threatened to launch Valley-wide agitation in case their colleagues detained by the police last week were not released forthwith. Carrying banners and placards which read “Release our brothers Suhail and Ismail”, the slogan-shouting students assembled at the Press Enclave here today and staged a protest […]

 Press Trust of india

Popular govt in JK unlikely anytime soon

Popular govt in JK unlikely anytime soon

New Delhi, Nov 12:  Jammu and Kashmir is unlikely to have a popular government anytime soon as the Central government may recommend a spell of President’s rule at the expiry of Governor’s rule on December 19, official sources said. Under the Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir, there is no provision for extension of Governor’s rule. […]

 Reyaz Rashid

3 stone-pelters injured in brawl inside police lock-up

3 stone-pelters injured in brawl inside police lock-up

Baramulla, Nov 12: Refuting rumours about three stone-pelters attempting to commit suicide by consuming poison inside the lock-up of Baramulla Police Station, police on Monday said that trio got injured after they had a scuffle with each-other and that they are stable after being provided medical aid. “They were actually involved in a physical brawl […]

 Majid Kapra

Sikhs demand revocation of SRO 425 favouring Pandits

Sikhs demand revocation of SRO 425 favouring Pandits

Srinagar, Nov 12: People from Sikh community on Monday held sit-in protest at Pratap Park here against what they termed was step-motherly treatment being meted out to them by State and the Central governments. “Aren’t we sons of this soil? Aren’t we state subjects of Jammu and Kashmir? Sikh community has been struggling for their […]

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Director F&S transferred

Director F&S transferred

Srinagar: The government today posted Mohammad Qasim Wani as Director, Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs. In a single order, issued by the general administration department, Wani, who was Additional Registrar, Cooperatives, Kashmir has been transferred and posted as Director, Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs. Nissar Ahmad Wani, who was holding the post shall […]

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Man stabbed in Pulwama, hospitalised

Man stabbed in Pulwama, hospitalised

Srinagar, Nov 12: Unknown persons stabbed a 30-year-old man at a village in south Kashmir’s Pulwma district on Sunday night. Reports said Shabir Ahmad Ganie, son of Habibullah Ganie was stabbed in the abdomen by some unidentified persons in Naypora Payeen village around 9.30 pm. He was immediately rushed to District Hospital Pulwama where his […]