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Jammu, Dec 12 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Monday asked for a thorough investigation into the militant attack on Law Minister Ali Mohammad Sagar at his home in Srinagar a day earlier that killed his bodyguard. ‘The chief minister wants a comprehensive report and how it happened and what were the loopholes,’ said a senior official quoting [...]
Srinagar, Dec 12 (IANS) Security was beefed up in Srinagar Monday, a day after a Jammu and Kashmir minister escaped a bid on his life — an incident he described as ‘a cowardly act of terrorism’. Police and paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were deployed in big numbers at major markets, traffic intersections and around sensitive installations. Though [...]
Srinagar, Dec 11 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ali Muhammad Sagar Sunday escaped a bid on his life when separatist guerrillas attacked him in Srinagar. One of the minister’s security guards was killed in the attack. ‘At about 8 p.m. today (Sunday), some unidentified militants attacked Minister of Law and Parliamentary Affairs Ali Muhammad Sagar at [...]
Srinagar, Dec 11 (IANS) A Jammu and Kashmir Police constable was killed and two other people were injured when separatist guerrillas attacked the escort vehicle of Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ali Muhammad Sagar here Sunday evening, police said. A senior police officer said the attack came outside Sagar’s ancestral home in the old city’s Nawa Bazaar area. ‘Three people [...]
Srinagar, Dec 10 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik and a legislator, Engineer Rasheed, were arrested Saturday in Srinagar during protests for human rights. The JKLF staged a candle-light protest in Maisuma area adjacent to city centre Lal Chowk. As the protestors tried to march towards the nearby Badshah Chowk, police stopped the marchers and [...]
Jammu, Dec 10 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Saturday discussed the security situation of the state and other issues with Governor N.N. Vohra, an official spokesman said. The spokesman said the chief minister called on the governor on Saturday soon after his return from New Delhi. ‘The chief minister briefed the governor about security management issues,’ the [...]
Srinagar, Dec 10 (IANS) Families of people who have ‘disappeared’ in Jammu and Kashmir held a peaceful protest here Saturday on the occasion of World Human Rights Day to seek the whereabouts of their loved ones. ‘The Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) firmly resolves to continue their struggle for truth, justice and accountability,’ said a statement issued at [...]
Srinagar, Dec 7 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Wednesday said a peaceful 2011 had catapulted the state’s development to a new level and the government would continue efforts to enable the people reap the dividends of peace. ‘My initiative regarding the gradual revocation of laws like AFSPA (Armed Forces Special Powers Act) in the areas where the [...]
Srinagar, Dec 7 (IANS) Hardline senior separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani Wednesday sought a ‘fatwa’ against union minister and ruling National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah for advocating reopening of liquor shops in the Kashmir Valley. Geelani, who chaired an advisory committee meeting of his faction of the Hurriyat Conference Tuesday, said in a statement: ‘Islam declares liquor as the [...]
Srinagar, Dec 6 (IANS) Polls to various municipal corporations and committees in Jammu and Kashmir would be held March 2012, a minister announced Tuesday. Minister of State for Home and Urban Development Nasir Aslam Wani said the forthcoming municipal elections would be held on party basis unlike the earlier panchayat polls held on non-party basis with contestants joining the fray [...]
Raipur, Dec 6 (IANS) Chhattisgarh has decided to install solar energy pumps in 400 remote villages to ensure clean drinking water for thousands of poverty-hit forested residents, officials of the Chhattisgarh Renewable Energy Development Agency (CREDA) said Tuesday. Solar energy pumps are to be installed in tribal dominated villages where government has received scores of complaints of water-borne diseases in [...]
Srinagar, Dec 6 (IANS) Authorities imposed restrictions in city centre Lal Chowk and some adjacent areas in Srinagar to maintain law and order as many mourners’ processions are scheduled to be taken out by Shia Muslims Tuesday to commemorate the martyrdom of Prophet Mohammad’s grandson, Imam Hussain and his family in Karbala (Iraq) 1331 years ago. A senior police officer [...]
Jammu, Dec 5 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Monday said that the National Human Rights Commission’s (NHRC) stand that the Armed Forces Special Powers Act should be removed has strengthened his case for the repeal of the act giving special powers to security forces in the state. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a function here, [...]
Srinagar, Dec 5 (IANS) Even as the state government organised many functions to remember legendary leader Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah on his 106th birth anniversary Monday, the man who galvanised Kashmiris against autocratic rule, giving them a sense of pride, is little remembered by the younger generations today. The magic and charisma of the man who singlehandedly withstood the tide of [...]
Jammu, Dec 4 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir’s main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Sunday accused the Omar Abdullah government of ‘eroding the democratic institutions’ by not holding civic polls in the state. PDP patron and former chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, whose party is focusing on spreading its wings in the Jammu region, referred to the failure of the government [...]
Srinagar, Dec 4 (IANS) Police used batons and tear smoke cansters to disperse Shia Muslim protesters who had assembled to take out a Muharram procession here Sunday afternoon, officials said. Scores of protesting Shia Muslims clashed with the police in Jehangir Chowk here. More than three dozen protesters were taken into preventive custody, a police officer said. The authorities had [...]
Srinagar, Dec 4 (IANS) Strict security restrictions were imposed in parts of capital Srinagar Sunday to thwart a traditional Muharram procession by the Shia community here. The march would start in the afternoon from Guru Bazzar, city’s interior locality and wind its way through the historic Lal Chowk, the city centre and culminate at the tourist hub of Dalgate after [...]
Srinagar, Dec 3 (IANS) Dozens of handicapped people staged a protest in this Jammu and Kashmir summer capital on the World Disabled Day Saturday, observing it as a black day, to press for the implementation of their demands by the state government. ‘The state government has not fulfilled our demands,’ said the local handicapped persons’ association general secretary Abdul Rashid. [...]
Srinagar, Dec 3 (IANS) Cold wave conditions continued across the Kashmir Valley and Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir Saturday as night temperatures fell much below freezing point. The minimum temperature was minus 0.4 degrees Celsius in Srinagar, minus 2.2 degrees in south Kashmir’s Pahalgam hill station, and minus 1.6 degrees Celsius at north Kashmir’s Gulmarg ski resort, Sonam Lotus, [...]
Srinagar, Dec 2 (IANS) A leader of Jammu and Kashmir’s ruling National Conference (NC) was injured Friday in a guerrilla attack in Srinagar, police said. Guerrillas fired at Ghulam Muhammad Lone, a block president of the party, from a close range in Safakadal area of old city injuring him critically, a senior police officer told IANS. ‘Lone received bullet wounds [...]
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