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May 25, 2019 No Responses

Zakir Musa’s journey from tech student to most-wanted rebel from Valley

From an engineering student to one of the most wanted militants, Zakir Musa’s journey had all ingredients of a Bollywood potboiler. Zakir Rashid Bhat, alias Zakir Musa (25), had joined the militant ranks in 2013 and four years later he...

May 25, 2019 No Responses

Engineer Rashid credits Facebook for getting over a lakh vote in Kashmir

He ran the election campaign on his Facebook page and surprised everyone with over 1 lakh votes in his kitty. Engineer Rashid, an independent candidate from Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla constituency has become a challenger to regional parties in the...

May 22, 2019 No Responses

Modern “Halal” meat is a mockery of Islam

Eating meat in Islam is not a right or a duty. Eating meat is a privilege, extended to us by Allah with responsibilities attached. Unfortunately, many Muslims today don’t seem to care about the food they eat, at the expense...

May 22, 2019 No Responses

Jehangir Chowk-Rambagh flyover phase II inauguration today

After a long wait, the second phase of Jehangir Chowk-Rambagh flyover will be thrown open for vehicular traffic today. It will be inaugurated by J&K Governor Satya Pal Malik. For the past four years, residents were waiting for the flyover...

May 21, 2019 No Responses

Mohammad Jammal, PDP worker paid by his life as his family cast 5 of 7 votes in south Kashmir

Police officials said militants were behind Mohammad Jammal’s killing as they want to create fear among the people for the next elections to the assembly for which dates are yet to be announced. PDP worker Mohammad Jammal from South Kashmir’s...

May 17, 2019 No Responses

If Godse a patriot, is Mahatma Gandhi anti-national asks Omar Abdullah

National Conference leader Omar Abdullah Thursday attacked Pragya Singh Thakur, the BJP’s Lok Sabha candidate from Bhopal, for terming Nathuram Godse, who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi, a “patriot”. “If the killer of the father of the nat...

May 16, 2019 No Responses

City roads in shambles, administration unmoved

Though the Governor Satya Pal Malik on the eve of opening of bi-annual Darbar Move here had expressed his concern over the dilapidated roads and had directed the concerned to ensure immediate repair work of roads, but there seems to...

May 15, 2019 No Responses

‘Let the nomads return to plains’, BJP batting for J&K assembly polls in November

The BJP’s Jammu and Kashmir unit on Tuesday said assembly elections should be held in November after over 30 lakh nomads return from the state’s high-altitude areas to the plains. “We want that elections should be held in Jammu and...

May 6, 2019 No Responses

To woo Hindu voters, Modi flexing muscles in Kashmir

Shortly before India’s mammoth elections began in April, New Delhi did something unprecedented: It banned civilian traffic on the only major highway connecting the heart of disputed Kashmir with the rest of the country. The government cited unspecified s...

May 6, 2019 No Responses

JKPM chairman Shah Faseal announces ‘War’ against BJP-RSS

‘Won’t allow any assault, dilution of JK’s special status’ Democracy another name of exploitative politics in JK NIA, CBI used to muzzle our voice, jail leaders Former IAS officer and Jammu and Kashmir People’s Movement (JKPM) chairman Shah Fasea...