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 […]
KEG condoles with Pramod Jamwal
Srinagar: Kashmir Editors Guild (KEG) on Friday expressed grief over the demise of Professor Sukhdev Singh Jamwal, father of ‘Kashmir Times’ Editor, Prabodh Jamwal. Prof Singh, according to family sources passed away at his Gandhi Nagar residence in Jammu on Friday morning. He was later cremated in the afternoon at the Jogi Gate, crematorium Jammu. […]
Hurriyat activist booked under PSA, shifted to Kotbalwal
Srinagar, Oct 12: A 30-year-old man arrested in south Kashmir’s Anantnag town last month was booked under Public Safety Act (PSA) and shifted to a jail in Jammu on Friday. An official said that Sheikh Sartaj of Anchidora area of Anantnag town was shifted to Kotbalwal jail in Jammu today. He was arrested a day […]
Drug-peddler arrested in Udhampur
Jammu, Oct 12: A drug-peddler was arrested after intoxicants were allegedly found in his possession in Udhampur district Thursday, police said. A police team intercepted the man at Roundomail area and recovered 600 tablets of Tramadol, an intoxicant, from his possession, they said. A case has been registered. Images News Netwokthekashmirimages.com
Lt Gen Paramjit Singh takes over as XVI Corps GOC
Jammu, Oct 12: Lt Gen Paramjit Singh Friday took over as the general officer commanding of the Army’s Nagrota-based XVI Corps. Lt Gen Singh, who has commanded an elite parachute regiment and has vast experience of high-altitude warfare, took over the command of the strategic corps from Lt Gen Saranjeet Singh at a function here, […]
PhD scholar Manan Wani among two Hizb militants killed in Handwara
Amid violent clashes, thousands participate in their funeral
Handwara, Oct 11: Two Hizb-ul-Mujahideen militants including top commander Manan Bashir Wani, a PhD scholar-turned-militant and his associate Ashiq Hussain Zargar was killed in a fierce gunfight at Shatgund Handwara in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Thursday. Residents of the Shatgund and Qalambad – nestled among the walnut and pine trees – woke up to […]
JRL calls shutdown
Srinagar, Oct 11: Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) has called for shutdown Friday over the killing of scholar-turned-militant Manan Wani in a gunfight with the government forces in north Kashmir’s Kupwara. “Alas! heard the tragic news of #MananWani’s Martyrdom and of his associates! Deeply pained that we lost a budding intellectual and writer like him, fighting […]
Cancellation of Indo-Pak FM meeting ‘disappointing’: Pakistan
Islamabad, Oct 11: The cancellation of the Indo-Pak foreign ministers’ meeting in New York by India on “flimsy pretexts” was “disappointing”, Pakistan said Thursday, asserting that it wants peaceful and good-neighbourly relations with New Delhi on the basis of sovereign equality, mutual respect and mutual benefit. India called off a meeting between the foreign ministers […]
Governor’s comments on Srinagar mayor misrepresented: Raj Bhavan
Srinagar, Oct 11: A Raj Bhavan spokesman on Thursday said that the comments made by Governor Satya Pal Malik regarding the Srinagar mayor were “misrepresented” by a New Delhi-based private news channel. The spokesman said that over the past three days, ever-since Governor Satya Pal Malik gave a live interview to a TV Channel in […]
