No elections to take place for Sopore MC

Sopore, Oct 12: With all arrangements set for the third-phase of the Municipal polls scheduled Saturday, 21 wards of Sopore Municipal Committee will have no elections as eight BJP candidates are in the fray unopposed from eight wards while the remaining 13 wards have no contestants. Reports said authorities have decided not to establish any […]

Strike disrupts normal life in Kashmir

 Srinagar, Oct 12: Normal life in Kashmir was affected Friday due to a strike called by separatists after the killing of PhD scholar-turned-Hizbul Mujahideen commander Manan Bashir Wani in an encounter with government forces. Schools, higher educational institutions, shops and business establishments remained closed due to the strike called by the Joint Resistance Leadership comprising […]

3 Kashmiri students suspends by AMU for offering funeral prayers for Manan Wani

Srinagar, Oct 12: The Aligarh Muslim University has suspended three Kashmiri students for offering funeral prayers in absentia for scholar-turned-militant Manan Wani who was killed in a gunfight with the government forces in Kupwara yesterday, a media report said. “The three Kashmiri students were suspended as they violated the university’s discipline and rules and indulged […]

Pak committed to root out terrorism: FM Qureshi at SCO meeting

Dushanbe, Oct 12:  Pakistan is committed to combating terrorism in all its forms and offered to share with member states of the SCO the expertise it gained in fighting the menace, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Friday. Addressing a high-level meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) here in the Tajik capital, also attended […]

Pak man to be executed on Oct 17

Rape & murder of minor girl

Lahore, Oct 12:  A Pakistani man, who was convicted in the rape and murder case of a seven-year-old girl in Punjab province in January, will be executed on October 17 as an anti-terrorism court on Friday issued his death warrants. The incident in January triggered nation-wide street protests in Pakistan with people demanding a harsh […]

Qazi Yasir removed as Mirwaiz of south Kashmir after sleazy video goes viral

Srinagar, Oct 12: The Idaar-e-Tehqeeqat or Islamic Research Institute (IRI) has removed Qazi Yasir as Mirwaiz or ‘head preacher’ of south Kashmir after a sleazy video of the preacher went viral on social media earlier this week. Yasir, however, continues to head Ummat-e-Islami, a socio-religious organisation based in south Kashmir that has been demanding “right […]

58.12 lakh voters to choose 35,096 panchayat members in J&K rural bodies polls

Jammu: The stage is set for the nine-phased rural bodies polls in Jammu and Kashmir from November 17, in which over 58.12 lakh voters will choose 35,096 panchayat members in 316 blocks of the state. According to the state election department, Jammu district has the highest 6,21,566 voters, who will choose 2,568 panchayat members in […]

SC stays U’khand HC order banning religious outfits from issuing ‘Fatwas’ 

New Delhi, Oct 12 : The Supreme Court Friday stayed the order of Uttarakhand High Court which had banned all religious outfits, bodies, panchayats and groups of people in the state from issuing ‘fatwas’. ‘Fatwa’ is advice or opinion given by qualified Islamic scholars in response to queries asked on religious matter. A bench of […]