Violating SOP cops attack houses, harass inmates

Police, CRPF personnel turn stone-pelters

FAHEEM ASLAM

Srinagar, July 31: Police and paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force here are openly violating the Standing Operating Procedure (SOP) by breaking the window panes of houses and private vehicles, and also barging into residential areas where they allegedly abuse people, including women.  More

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COPS, CRPF MEN ON LOOKOUT!

Photojournalists at the receiving end

Srinagar, July 31: The Valley photojournalists had to hide their tools –(cameras) on Saturday as Jammu and Kashmir policemen and CRPF personnel deployed were tracking their movement in each vehicle that moved in Kashmir. “We had to hide our cameras as police and CRPF men asked for us during More

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Hurriyat (G) issues fresh protest calendar

Srinagar, July 31: The Hurriyat (G) spearheading the ongoing ‘Quit Kashmir Movement’ has issued fresh protest calender.  A local news agency KNS quoting Hurriyat spokesman, Peer Saifullah, said the conglomerate held a meeting under its acting chairman, Ghulam Nabi Sumji.     More

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Ask Azad to take over

CONGRESS LEGISLATORS RUSH TO DELHI

NASEER AHMAD

Srinagar, July 31: Former Chief Minister and the Union Minister for Health Ghulam Nabi Azad have reportedly held a meeting with the party legislators and some Congress leaders to discuss present situation in Jammu and Kashmir, sources said.  Sources said the legislators have shown serious More

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Omar warns against damaging public property

MINISTERIAL TEAMS TO STAY IN DISTRICTS

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, July 31:  The Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Sunday said that anti-social elements damaging public property would be dealt with firmly and none will be allowed to vitiate the atmosphere in any part of the state and threaten common man. Chairing a high-level meeting here, he also More

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PDP legislators to meet today

DILAWAR CONDEMNS ‘REIGN OF TERROR’, KILLINGS

Srinagar July 31: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called a special meeting of its legislature party here on Sunday to discuss the present turmoil in the Valley.     “Atrocities on civilians have reached an intolerable level while killings of youth have assumed dimensions of More

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Keran inundated, cut off

SHAHID RAFIQ

Melyal (Kupwara), July 31: The flood situation in Keran area of in this frontier district continued to be grim on third consecutive day Saturday.   The Kishenganga and Koshur Kuttha river are still flowing above the danger mark.  “Several acres of agricultural land has been More

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Tara for developing modern facilities in Srinagar

Dy CM chairs SDA board meeting

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, July 31: Highlighting the role of Srinagar Development Authority in developing the summer capital with modern facilities, Deputy Chief Minister, Tara Chand has said that SDA is performing twin jobs of developing new commercially viable projects and improving existing facilities to catalyze More

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Oppn parties shedding crocodile tears: Aasiya

‘Support Hurriyat (G) program’

Srinagar, July 31: The chairperson of Dukhtaran-e-Millat, Syeda Aasiya Andrabi on Saturday strongly condemned the fresh spate of killings by troopers in north Kashmir and urged the people to register protests against it.  In a statement, Aasiya said the killings were glaring example what More

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Sikh bodies condemn killings of youth

Srinagar: The Guru Manyo Granth Society and amalgam of various Sikh organisations in Jammu and Kashmir have condemned what it termed as barbaric and inhumane killing of the innocent Kashmiri youth by police and CRPF troopers. A meeting was held on Saturday under the presidentship of Jasdeep More

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Shoaib to head JK youth Cong

Srinagar, July 31: The Congress on Saturday appointed former MLA Sangarma Shoaib Nabi Lone as state president of Youth Congress, a local news agency KNS said.   Shoaib Lone had won the assembly by-elections in 2006 from Sangrama constituency following the assassination of his father and More

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PSC, KU postpone exams

Srinagar: The Public Service Commission (PSC) has postponed all the departmental examinations and screening tests scheduled for August 8, 2010 till further orders, an official statement said. According to KU PRO, all the Kashmir University examinations scheduled upto and including 6th August More

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JK Bank’s Q1 profit up by 23%

Srinagar, July 31: J&K Bank has registered a net profit of Rs.145 crore in first quarter of the current financial year, which is an increase of 23 percent when compared to Rs.118 crore of the corresponding period of the previous financial year. The unaudited first quarter results were approved by More

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