KASHMIR NORMAL FOR A DAY

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, July 25: With Hurriyat Conference (G) calling off strike for a day normalcy returned to Kashmir temporarily on Sunday. People withdrew nearly Rs 16 crore from the Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) across the Valley.   Since early morning, a huge rush of people was witnessed More

Rafiabad youth killed in custody: Locals

*Suicide: Police *Probe ordered*Dillawar condemns

UMER MAQBOOL DAR

Srinagar, July 25: A youth was allegedly tortured to death in police custody at Panzala Rafiabad in north Kashmir’s Varmul district last night, locals alleged.  While the Jammu and Kashmir government ordered a magisterial inquiry into the incident and suspended two cops for dereliction of More

BATMALOO YOUTH’S BODY FISHED OUT

Murder Alleged; Police Says Suicide

Srinagar, July 25: Body of a Batmaloo youth, who had gone missing on July 20, was fished out from a stream in downtown here on Sunday evening. Police said that Farooq Ahmad Bhat, 28, son of Ali Muhammad Bhat of S D Colony, Batmaloo was “mentally disturbed” and had left from home on the morning More

NHRC wants full jurisdiction over JK

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, July 25: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), which has negligible jurisdiction over human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir, wants the limitation to be removed, particularly against the backdrop of recent allegations of transgressions in Kashmir. The NHRC chairman More

Govt yet to act on APM decisions

No Word On Independent Commission, Delegation To PM

Will Act This Week: CM

  FAHEEM ASLAMSrinagar, July 25: It has been two weeks since the Jammu and Kashmir government held an All-Party Meeting (APM) here to find a way out of the prevailing unrest in the Valley.  But the decisions taken at the much-hyped meeting More

Government may release Geelani, ors

‘It Will Help Calm Tension’

Srinagar, July 25: The Jammu and Kashmir government is reviewing the detention and arrest of Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who was booked under Public Safety Act (PSA), and many other separatists, a vernacular news agency KNS reported on Sunday.     It More

'Give direction to movement'

Srinagar, July 25: The Muzaffarabad based spokesman of Hizbul Mujahideen, Eshan Illahi on Sunday said that Hizb’s supreme commander, Syed Salahuddin, had not called for complete end to strikes, but he had advised Hurriyat leadership to give right direction to peoples’ sentiment and protests, and adopt More

Unrest fuels smuggling in Budgam forests

ARIF SHAFI WANI

Srinagar, July 25: Timber smugglers are taking full advantage of the prevailing unrest in the Valley as they are having a field day in the lush green forests of central Kashmir’s Budgam district.    Sources said since the unrest over the civilian killings broke out in the Valley More

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