55 yrs on, NC worker awaits compensation

Lost 2 brothers, sister in 1957 bomb explosion

WASIM KHALID

Srinagar, July 13: For Ghulam Hassan Mir and his family past 55 years have been an endless struggle to get justice.  Mir, an active worker of ruling National Conference, had lost his two brothers and a sister after a bomb, they were fiddling with, went off on September 8, 1957 at their ramshackle More

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Molestation attempt triggers protest

3 Locals Injured; Case Registered Against CRPF

KHALID GUL

Islamabad (Anantnag), July 13: Three persons were injured, one of them seriously when CRPF personnel resorted to cane-charging on local tent owners, who were protesting alleged attempt to molest some women pilgrims outside the Amarnath cave shrine in south Kashmir, official sources said.  More

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10 more die, toll 50

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Srinagar, July 13: Ten more people have died of natural causes during the ongoing Amarnath yatra in south Kashmir Himalayas, taking the death toll in the annual pilgrimage to 51, officials said today. Nine pilgrims and a Muslim porter, most of whom suffered cardiac arrest, died on the twin More

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Wular becomes garbage dumping site; authorities unmoved

TARIQ RASOOL

Bandipora, July 13: The Asia’s largest fresh water lake, Wular, has become the dumping ground for waste material with municipalities of various townships in the district throwing all kinds of garbage into the water body.  According to the locals, after encroachments, the dumping of waste More

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Glowing tributes paid to July 13 martyrs

Srinagar, July 13: Different political parties have paid glowing tributes to the memory of martyrs of July 13, 1931, vowing to take their mission to its logical end. The Jammu and Kashmir Peoples’ Movement, a constituent of All Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC) has vowed to take the ongoing freedom More

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Army ‘thrashes’ nomads in Handwara

Gujjars Stage Protests, Threaten To Migrate

SHAHID RAFIQ

Sadhuganga (Handwara), July 13: At least 10 Gujjar Nomads were wounded when Army soldiers allegedly thrashed them in Choti Behak Sadhuganga village here today triggering protests. The aggrieved locals alleged that the soldiers of 47 Rashtriya Rifles thrashed them without any provocation.< More

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Police recovers abducted infant in Aishmuqam

Husband-Wife Duo Arrested

KHALID GUL

Islamabad (Anantnag), June 13: Police today claimed to have cracked abduction case of an infant by arresting husband-wife duo from Aishmuqam here. Pertinently the two-month old, Yasir Ahmad son of Muhammad Ashraf Teli of Muhamadpora in Kulgam district was abducted by a woman near the Maternity More

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Prof Sangmi is KUTA President

Srinagar:  Professor Mohi-ud-Din Sangmi of the Department of Business & Finance, Kashmir University, has been elected the President of the Kashmir University Teachers’ Association (KUTA).  A KUTA spokesman said, as per the results of the election, to various positions of KUTA Executive More

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