400 Panchayat members quit in JK after threats

Need To Get To Bottom Of It To Know Why It Is Happening: SM Sahai

GK MONITORING DESK

Srinagar, June 24: A Delhi-based news channel Sunday reported that more than 400 panchayat members in south Kashmir have resigned in the last three weeks after militant group, through posters, told Panchs and Sarpanchs to do so and publish their resignations in newspapers. Their warning: "Those who More

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Khan flays police ‘threat’ to dislodge Sopori

‘Step fraught with dangerous consequences’

Srinagar, June 24: Senior pro-freedom leader and National Front Chairman Nayeem Ahmad Khan Sunday voiced concern over the reported police action asking Peoples League leader GM Sopori to vacate from his Srinagar residence, describing it as a “step fraught with dangerous consequences.” In More

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PSG, RTI Acts biggest achievements of coalition government: Sadhotra

Srinagar, June 24: Senior National Conference leader Ajay Sadhotra Sunday said the Public Service Guarantee and Right to Information Acts were the coalition government’s “biggest achievements.” Addressing public gatherings at Marh Block in Jammu region, Sadhotra said “Aam Admi should come More

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Youth regulate traffic flow on highway

Volunteers Show The Way As Cops Fail To Manage Pantha Chowk Mess

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, June 24: Donning fluorescent yellow jackets, a number of youth here Sunday turned traffic ‘cops’ to manage traffic along the Srinagar-Islamabad (Anantnag) highway. An official spokesman said the youth of Pandrethan here “voluntarily assisted” in traffic management in view of the More

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Indo-Pak cultural exchange to bring peace: Bhushan Bazaz

Srinagar, June 24: The trust between India and Pakistan could only come from a cultural exchange and not from political establishment, Chief of the Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Forum (JKDF) Bhushan Bazaz said on Sunday. A statement issued here said Bazaz participated in a seminar on Kashmir More

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Er Rasheed flays Government package for Kashmiri Pandits

Srinagar, June 24: Lashing out at the J&K Government for “recommending yet another package for Kashmiri Pundits living outside Kashmir”, MLA Langate ER. Rasheed Sunday warned that “such biased steps will create social imbalance and divide the society on different lines.” Speaking at a More

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Unregistered yatris won’t be allowed to proceed: DGP

Srinagar June 24: Director General of Police (DGP) K Rajendra on Sunday said that unregistered Amarnath pilgrims would not be allowed to proceed to the cave shrine in southern Himalayans.   “Strict instructions have been passed not to allow unregistered Yatris to proceed,” a local news More

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Poonch youth missing

Family seeks CM’s intervention

Srinagar, June 24: Family of Ishtiyaq Qureshi presently putting up at Barzulla area here have urged Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to help them locate their son. Originally hailing from Poonch area, the family of 24-year-old Ishtiyaq said that he went missing from Jammu on May 27.  More

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Thousands attend Jamaat convention

‘Islam complete way of life’

SHEIKH NAZIR

Ganderbal, June 24: Thousands of people attended annual ijtima (convention) of Jamaat-i-Islami at Eid Gah Duderhama here on Sunday. Speaking on the occasion Jamaat leaders said that Islam is a complete way of life and the peace and the equality is philosophy of Islam. “Vulgarity is the main More

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'CM trying to hide Govt misdeeds'

Srinagar June 24: Jamaat-e-Islami Kashmir has said the controversial power theft remarks of the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah were meant for hiding the governments own misdeeds and inefficiencies.“If the government taps the water resources of JK, the state can generate surplus power which can be More

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