Will implement AFSPA panel recommendations: Omar

‘5786 Arrested In 2 Years, 1034 Have Applied For Rehabilitation’

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Mar 27: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Tuesday said the state government would comply with the recommendations of the two official committees on Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA).“The recommendations of the committees (set up by the JK Government) will be acted upon (regarding gradual More

Reddy panel report on AFSPA gathers dust

Interlocutors Report Under Consideration: GOI

ANIL ANAND

New Delhi, Mar 27: The Centre seems to be in no hurry to take a final decision on the recommendations of Justice B P Jeevan Reddy committee which had recommended repealing the contentious Armed Forces Special Power Act (AFSPA) from 12 districts of Jammu and Kashmir and some other parts of the country More

Withdraw cases against youth or face agitation: Mehbooba to Govt

SUMIT HAKHOO

Jammu, Mar 27: Leader of the Opposition and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti Tuesday threatened to launch massive agitation if government failed to withdraw cases registered against the valley youth during past two years.Taking part in the discussion on the grants of the More

Malik appears before Pak commission

Dubs Mansoor Ijaz As Liar

ALLEGED MEET WITH RAW CHIEF

NISAR AHMED THOKARIslamabad, Mar 27: Refuting the statement by Mansoor Ijaz that he had arranged a meeting of Yasin Malik with RAW Chief, the chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front recorded his statement before a 3-member memo commission led by Justice Qazi Faez Isa in More

Malik blessed with baby girl

Srinagar, Mar 27: JKLF Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik was blessed with a baby girl on Tuesday, family sources said.They said Mishal Malik, wife of JKLF Chief, gave birth to a baby girl in a hospital at Islamabad in Pakistan late this evening. Pertinently, Malik had left for Pakistan last week More

CIC miffed over delay in furnishing information on PSA

Serves Show-cause notice To Home Department

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, Mar 27: Taking strong note of delay in furnishing information on Public Safety Act (PSA), the state’s Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) has initiated penalty proceedings against Public Information Officer (PIO) of the Home Department.The move comes after the Department failed to provide More

Will quit politics if graft charges proved: Farooq

New Delhi, Mar 27: Union minister and National Conference president Farooq Abdullah Tuesday vowed to quit politics if graft charges against him in the alleged money laundering scam in the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) were proved.“I want to tell the house that if the charges are More

Manmohan, Gilani meet in Seoul

Decide To Intensify Dialogue

Seoul, Mar 27: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani met here Tuesday and said the two countries had charted the right path to resolve their issues and decided to intensify dialogue.The two leaders, who met on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit More

Windstorm toll 5, man succumbs

SHEIKH NAZIR

Lar, Mar 27: Death toll in the recent windstorm mounted to five as one more person injured in the storm succumbed at SKIMS here on Tuesday, officials said.  They said Abdul Ahad Bhat son of Fatah More

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Rajoana to hang Saturday: Court

Chandigarh, Mar 27: Babbar Khalsa member Balwant Singh Rajoana, sentenced to death in the 1995 assassination of then Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, is to hang as scheduled on March 31, a Chandigarh More

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