Nine dead as India, Pakistan trade fire along Kashmir border
SRINAGAR : Eight civilians, including a husband and wife and four members of another family, were killed when Indian and Pakistani soldiers fired at border posts and villages along the highly militarized frontier in disputed Kashmir,…
Lack of political space pushes Kashmiri youth to wall
SRINAGAR: Youth is the season of hope, in Kashmir over the past three decades; Youth have bore the worst brunt of violence and bloodshed on account of lingering conflict. Killings, uncertainties, strikes have made youth of Kashmir to be at…
Kashmir not administrative issue but political: Mirwaiz
SRINAGAR: All Parties Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Friday stressed that the problem in Kashmir was not administrative in nature related to roads, inaugurating of tunnels, power projects or jobs, that it can be…
JKLF carries out protest march, Malik denounces Israeli terrorism
SRINAGAR:“Failure of the international community in resolving disputes and stopping massacres of innocent people in Palestine, Kashmir and other disputed lands can only be termed as worst kind of apathy,” said JKLF chairman Muhammad Yasin…
Restrictions in Srinagar on PM’s visit, Class work in schools, colleges to remain suspended
SRINAGAR: Amid heightened security arrangements in the wake of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to State, authorities have decided to impose restrictions in Srinagar parts including Old City on Saturday as a precautionary measure.
The…
Three militants killed in north Kashmir gunfight
SRINAGAR: Army on Friday claimed to have killed three militants in a gunfight at Brinjal forest area of Vilgam, Handwara in north Kashmir's Kupwara district.
An army official told news agency GNS that soldiers of 15 RR intercepted a group…
AIP to receive PM Modi with Black Flags: Er Rasheed
SRINAGAR: Ridiculing state DGP’s appeal to militants to utilize the opportunity of ceasefire and return to their families AIP Supremo and MLA Langate Er Rasheed has said that even if New Delhi shows some sincerity vis a vis ceasefire but…
Poor Airtel service irks Bijbehara residents
SRINAGAR: Scores of subscribers of Airtel telecom operator alleges that it failed to provide quality ‘calling services’ and internet service to the people living in far-flung areas of Bijebehara in Anantnag district.
The Airtel…
Transportation of school children fraught with dangers in Srinagar
Wahid Bhat
SRINAGAR: The transportation ferry children to and fro from their respective top private schools in Srinagar district are fraught with great dangers but the authorities seem unmoved.
Though there is a clear direction from…
Ramazan ceasefire a ‘cruel joke’: JRL
‘People want a permanent halt on war thrust by India’
SRINAGAR: The joint resistance leadership (JRL) comprising Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik on Thursday held a “brief” meeting held at Hyderpora here and…