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August 23, 2017 No Responses

Kashmiri student goes missing in Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University

Varsity alerts police after reports suggested he may have joined militancy Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University (BGSB) authorities Tuesday lodged a written complaint with police and civil administration following reports about one of its B.Tech students joining militancy ranks. As...

August 23, 2017 No Responses

Kashmir NCC woman cadet trolled on Facebook over azadi, stone pelting comments

“I want to tell the youth that the real azadi (freedom) is here. If you want azadi, it is here,” she said in the post and asked young Kashmiris to stay away from stone pelting and raising pro azadi slogans....

August 22, 2017 No Responses

116 PoK residents stranded in Jammu sent back via Uri

The J&K Government sent 116 stranded residents of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) back home as the cross-Line of Control (LoC) bus service operating between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad resumed today. The LoC bus service also known as Karvan-e-Aman (peace bus...

August 22, 2017 No Responses

Kashmir will witness bloodbath if Article 35A scrapped: KEA

Appeals civil society, transporters, trade bodies to observe black day on the day of hearing of case in SC The trade body, Kashmir Economic Alliance (KEA), Monday warned that Kashmir would witness a worst bloodbath if anybody tried to fiddle...

August 21, 2017 No Responses

Zakir Musa back in action, vows to take jihad to the last corner of India

Nearly 10 days after reports that al-Qaeda’s recently announced Kashmir unit chief Zakir Musa was trapped by security forces in Pulwama’s Tral area, the Burhan Wani successor is back in action. In a detailed statement, surfaced on Saturday, Musa-le...

August 19, 2017 No Responses

Supreme Court agrees to examine plea of Pathribal fake encounter Victim’s Kin

Issues notices to GoI, Army and CBI; lists case for final disposal after 6 weeks The Supreme Court Friday said it would examine a plea filed by the family members of five civilians killed in a fake encounter in Pathribal...

August 18, 2017 No Responses

Book challenging Kashmir’s fictional Hindu histories released

Ahmad’s book debunks works of Kalhana, Jonaraja and Srivara ‘It’s about the oppressive ruling class and the oppressed ones’ ‘Kashmir: Exposing the Myth Behind the Narrative’, a book by author, poet and former bureaucrat, Khalid Bashir Ahmad that ch...

August 18, 2017 No Responses

Civil Society warns against tampering with Article 35A

To protest against the onslaught on Article 35-A that provides special privileges for people in J&K, Kashmiri civil society members held a sit-in protest at Pratap Park on Thursday. Holding placards that read “India, learn to keep promises” and “assa...

August 18, 2017 No Responses

Declaring employee deadwood must withstand judicial scrutiny: High Court

The High Court on Thursday ruled that a government action declaring an employee as deadwood should be “fair enough to withstand the test of judicial scrutiny.” Upholding a single bench judgment directing the government to reinstate an officer Shamim Ahmad....

August 16, 2017 No Responses

NIA conducts searches at 12 locations in J&K: Terror Funding Case

The National Investigation Agency teams are carrying out raids at 12 places in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla, Handwara and Srinagar in connection with its terror funding and civil unrest probe involving Hurriyat leaders. Sources say that fresh raids have...