Srinagar: Deputy Commissioner Bandipora Shahbaz Mirza on Monday suspended two engineers after they failed to comply the orders, putting J&K Bank examination aspirants in trouble when they got stuck in an anti -PDD protest by villagers at Ashtengoo Bandipora. Mirza suspended Assistant Engineer PDD Bandipora Abdul Majeed Ganie and Rajinder Singh Raina JE PDD after they failed to reach Ashtengoo ...

Srinagar: A mysterious explosion Monday created panic in Sopore town of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district forcing shopkeepers and pedestrians to run for their lives. A police official in Sopore said that miscreants bursted a firecracker during an anti encroachment drive in Sopore town at around 2:40 p.m on Monday. He said that the miscreants hurled the firecracker towards a CRPF ...

Srinagar: Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) comprising of Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Jammu Kashmir liberation Front (JKLF) has called for a valley-wide protest shutdown on Tuesday 23rd April 2019, against the ill-treatment meted-out to JKLF chairman Yasin Malik. According to a statement JRL has called for complete shutdown on Tuesday in Kashmir to protest against the deteriorating condition ...

Srinagar: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on  Monday demanded adequate number of exam centres for NEET aspirants in Kashmir so that the hardships they face by traveling outside Valley are avoided. In a statement issued here, PDP General Secretary Ghulam Nabi Lone Hanjura said that in view of the highway ban, inclement weather, dilapidated condition of national highway and sky rocketing ...

Srinagar: All arrangements, including three-tier security, have been made for conducting free, fair and peaceful polls in the first of three phase polling in six of the 16 Assembly segments in Anantnag Parliamentary constituency on Tuesday. The Assembly segments going to polls tomorrow are — Anantnag, Doru Shahabad, Kokernag, Shangus, Bijbehera and Pahalgam in the constituency spread over four district ...

Srinagar: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti on Monday demanded the immediate release of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik in view of failing health. Addressing the reporters on the sidelines of a party function in Kulgam, Mehbooba said the condition of Yasin Malik is very bad. “I would like to appeal the government to immediate ...

Srinagar: Slamabad Cross-Loc Trade Union on Monday reached city centre Lal Chowk to protest against the suspension of cross-LoC trade by the Home Ministry of India. Scores of the traders along with union’s General Secretary Mohammad Shafi and chairman of cross-LoC Trade Association Hilal Ahmed assembled at Partap Park in Srinagar and sought the revocation of the decision. Cross-LoC traders protest ...

Srinagar: A landslide buried a dozen residential houses at Dogrun in Bathri area of Kahara tehsil in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday. However, there were no casualties as the administration had already evacuated the residents to safer places. According to SP Bhadarwah Raj Singh Gouria, the slide with huge boulders and shooting stones came down on about ...

New Delhi: Citing the example of the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka that killed 290 people, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday claimed that India is now virtually “terror-free” barring some pockets of Jammu and Kashmir. Addressing an election rally at Pimpalgaon in Nashik, Modi said: “Scores were killed in Sri Lanka when the terrorists struck at the innocent Christians peacefully ...

Srinagar: In a shocking incident, currency worth crores went up in flames after a truck carrying cash caught fire. Television visuals showed burnt currency  lying in the truck and on the road. The incident will attract the attention of the Election Commission as the incident has taken place in the midst of the Lok Sabha Elections 2019.