Category: Jammu & Kashmir, India

Two suspected LeT ultras among three killed in Kashmir gunfight

Srinagar, March 9 – Two suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists and a civilian were killed on Thursday in a gunfight between militants and security forces in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. The Central Reserve Police Force , who conducted the operation along with police, said the gunfight started around 4 a.m. in Padgampora village following a tip-off.

Militant killed, major injured in Kashmir shootout

Srinagar, March 9 – A militant was killed and an army officer injured in a shootout in Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Thursday, police said. Following information about a militant travelling in a vehicle in Bandipora town, security forces set up a checkpost outside the Bandipora police station.

Aadhaar for midday meals, ICDS shocking, says Mamata

Kolkata, March 4 – West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday termed as shocking the central government’s decision to link Aaadhaar card with the midday meals programme in schools. Now even infants will need Aadhar cards? Aadhaar card for mid-day meals and ICDS ? Shocking! 100 Days’ Work also not spared, she tweeted.

Gurdaspur dam work to resume after Centre brokers agreement between Punjab and J&K

Official sources said work on the Shahpur Kandi dam project at Gurdaspur in Punjab will “resume soon” following the agreement between the two states facilitated by the Water Resources Ministry. The Centre on Friday brokered an agreement between the states of Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir over a stalled under-construction hydropower project that will help India improve the utilisation of its share of river waters under the Indus Water Treaty with Pakistan.

Reporting public views on judicial corruption isn’t contempt: SC

The Supreme Court Tuesday observed that a report based on public views regarding corruption in judiciary may not invite contempt of court action and that such surveys instead gave opportunity to address the malady in the system. A bench led by Chief Justice of India J S Khehar said that the law of contempt would not ordinarily encompass individuals or organisations which interview people and compile their views on whether judiciary was also afflicted with corrupt practises such as bribing and exercising influences.

I met my husband, BSF trooper Tej Bahadur Yadav’s wife tells HC

New Delhi: The wife of BSF trooper Tej Bahadur Yadav told the Delhi High Court on Wednesday that she had met her husband and was convinced that he was safe. Yadav, whose social media video clip on ‘substandard food’ triggered an uproar, got to meet his wife at the battalion Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba area where he was posted, she told the court.

I met my husband, BSF trooper Tej Bahadur Yadav’s wife tells HC

New Delhi: The wife of BSF trooper Tej Bahadur Yadav told the Delhi High Court on Wednesday that she had met her husband and was convinced that he was safe. Yadav, whose social media video clip on ‘substandard food’ triggered an uproar, got to meet his wife at the battalion Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba area where he was posted, she told the court.

J&K Counsel in Supreme Court sacked over ‘sovereignty’ row7 min ago

New Delhi, Feb 9: The Jammu and Kashmir Government sacked its counsel in Supreme Court, Sunil Fernandez, when he refused to file a review petition to dispute the Apex Court’s view that Jammu and Kashmir “has no vestige of sovereignty outside the Constitution of India.” This statement by the Supreme Court also was followed with an uproar in the valley and reportedly Fernandez was instructed to resign ‘immediately’ on Monday evening.

Days after crackdown, Hafiz Saeed’s JuD is back, under a new name

Jamaat-ud-Dawa has rebranded under the new name of ‘Tehreek Azadi Jammu and Kashmir’, just days after its chief Hafiz Saeed was put under house arrest and a crackdown launched on the organisation’s activities. The Mumbai attack mastermind had indicated about a week before his arrest that he might launch TAJK to “expedite the freedom of Kashmir”.

BJP calls for expunging Mehbooba Mufti’s speech

Rajeev Jasrotia drew his attention to the statement made by Mehbooba in the House on Monday demanding that her remarks on article 370 stating that every political party has its own ideology which cannot be dubbed anti-national should be expunged Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti suffered a major embarrassment on Tuesday when her ally BJP sought to expunge her speech in the Legislative Assembly after she dubbed those demanding abrogation of article 370 as “anti-nationals.” The Speaker expunged the remarks but retracted it after a ruckus broke out in the House.

Lone teacher to sign Kashmir petition quits Ashoka University

Dr Rajendran Narayanan, the only teacher at Ashoka University who signed a petition which condemned the violence over militant Burhan Wani’s death and called for a plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir, has resigned from the Sonepat institution’s mathematics department citing “ethical reasons”. Narayanan quit on December 15, a day before the semester ended.

Valley woes: Prolonged rains, snowfall throw normal life out of gear in JK

Srinagar , Jan. 27 : In Jammu and Kashmir, the latest spell of rains and snowfall has thrown normal life out of gear, as the surface and air links remained suspended between the Valley and the rest of the country for the past three days. In view of the rain and snowfall at various places along Jammu-Srinagar national highway no traffic will be allowed on the road today.

For you, always: CRPF jawans brave bone-chilling weather conditions in Jammu and Kashmir

Srinagar, Jan 24: At a time when entire North India is battling severe cold conditions, the soldiers on borders, specifically in Jammu and Kashmir and other cold regions are braving bone-chilling temperatures and high velocity winds to ensure the security of the nation. Amid the cold wave and deep sheath of snow, CRPF jawans in Kashmir perform round the clock duty in the valley to maintain the law and order in the region.

Brace for a cold Monday in Delhi; Scattered snowfall likely over Northwest India from Jan 23

An induced upper air cyclonic circulation is likely to develop over south Pakistan and adjoining west Rajasthan from January 24 onwards. According to the Regional Weather Forecasting Centre , an active western disturbance is likely to affect the western Himalayan region from January 23 onwards and plains of Northwest India from January 24. An induced upper air cyclonic circulation is likely to develop over south Pakistan and adjoining west Rajasthan from January 24 onwards.

BSF rejects jawans claims, alleges soldier has ‘troubled past’

Jammu , Jan. 9 : The Border Security Force on Monday rejected claims made by a soldier, who in a shared video complained of poor treatment and lack of food supplies, clarifying that even though conditions for soldiers were tough they were provided with regular rations while asserting that the jawan in particular had a troubled past. [NK India] “Mentioned BSF Constable who has uploaded his selfie declarations on his Facebook page is posted in a Battalion deployed on Line of Control.

J&K: Al-Badr terrorist Muzzafar Ahmed killed in encounter

Al-Badr terrorist Muzaffar Ahmed was killed in an encounter with Army and the Police in Machu area of Budgam district in Jammu and Kashmir, in the early hours of Friday. The militant killed in the anti-terrorist operation was earlier known to be associated with the terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-taiba, as per the reports.

‘Hit by drought, Kashmir nomads shifting closer to urban centres’

Jammu, Dec 25 : Hit by unprecedented dry spell in the higher reaches, nomad tribals in Jammu and Kashmir have started shifting to plain areas close to cities and towns in the Jammu region, a tribal rights body said on Sunday. [NK Business] “Facing extreme deficit of fodder for their animals due to insufficient rainfall, the drought-hit families of Gujjars living in hills of Jammu and Kashmir have started shifting along with their cattle towards the plain areas, nearer to cities and towns, in search of cattle feed and water,” the Tribal Research and Cultural Foundation, representing nomadic tribals, said in a statement.