BDC, Municipal elections within 2 months: Omar

SALIL RAINA

Poonch, Nov 26: Charging opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with hoodwinking people, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Monday announced that elections to Block Development Councils (BDC) and Municipalities will be held within next two months.“Government will be conducting Municipal and BDC polls More

Uncertainty clouds Urban Local Bodies polls

Waiting For CEO’s Nod: Tara Chand; Awaiting Govt Signal: Election Deptt

ABID BASHIR

Srinagar, Nov 26: Jammu and Kashmir government Monday said the polls for four seats of Legislative Council (LC) in Panchayat quota has resulted in delaying the process for conduct of much-awaited Municipal elections in the state.Curiously, the government has put the ball in the court of J& More

TAJ GIVES NEW TWIST TO ‘LAND GRAB’ CASE

Says Forest Department Hasn’t Demarcated Forest Land; ‘Mere Presence Of Conifer Trees Doesn’t Make It Forest Land’

ABID BASHIR

Srinagar, Nov 26: Casting aspersions on the functioning of the Forest Department, a beleaguered Minister for PHE and Irrigation, Taj Mohiuddin Monday gave a new twist to the allegations of forest land grab against him by accusing the Forest Department of “having failed to demarcate forest land and More

Joint team to be constituted soon: Mian Altaf

Srinagar, Nov 26: The Forest Minister, Mian Altaf Monday said the government would soon constitute a joint team of Forest and Revenue Department officials for on-the-spot inspection of the land at Sedow in district Shopian that presently in possession of Irrigation and Flood Control Minister Taj Mohiuddin More

Frislan fire razes countless dreams

‘School Uniforms, Books, Bedding, Utensils; Everything Gone’

KHALID GUL

Frislan (Pahalgam), Nov 26: In a dark corner in a half-burnt house of her neighbor, Saida Begum, 45, is bed ridden, surrounded by her five children. In this freezing cold when temperature dips to minus 6 degrees during night, they have nothing to warm themselves as all their belongings were burned More

Chief Minister visits victims

Islamabad (Anantnag) Nov 26: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Monday morning visited Frislan village in Pahalgam where dozens of houses have been gutted in a devastating fire.The Chief Minister met the fire sufferers, conveyed his sympathy and expressed deep grief over the incident. The Chief Minister More

Majority of disappeared persons innocent: Study

‘No Social, Legal, Economic Security For Half-Widows’

ZAHID MAQBOOL

Srinagar, Nov 26: In a startling revelation, a latest study has revealed that majority of the victims subjected to enforced disappearance in Kashmir during last 23 years of turmoil were “innocent civilians”.“The majority of disappeared persons (72.72 percent) were innocent civilians, only 22.42 More

India making heavy troop deployment in Ladakh: Farooq

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Nov 26: India is befriending China on one hand and remaining “cautious” on the other by deploying more troops in Ladakh region due to “threat” perception, having learnt lessons from the past, Union Minister Farooq Abdullah said today.Addressing young students, scholars and scientists More

Army proposes strike corps along China border

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Nov 26: Army Chief Gen Bikram Singh is expected to take up the issue of raising an offensive Corps including of around one lakh soldiers along the China border in a presentation soon to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the shortages faced by the 1.3 million-strong force.In the briefing More

Centre asks Omar to take action

Attack On Bear

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Nov 26: Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan Monday asked Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to take action against the people who recently tried to burn a bear alive in a village at Shopian district.The Minister also announced setting up of a primary response team to More

Snowfall likely in hilly areas on Nov 29-30

AAQIB ASHRAF

Srinagar, Nov 26: The weatherman Monday forecast snowfall on 29th and 30th November in hilly areas and rainfall over plains in the valley while the night temperatures are likely to dip further.With the advent of winter, valley is witnessing a decrease in both day and night temperatures as hilly More

Motorcyclist dies in accident

Srinagar: A man died in a road accident in central Kashmir’s Budgam district, police said on Monday.      A police spokesman said that a motorcyclist Farooq Ahmad Rather son of More

Impasse in Parliament on 3rd day even

FDI ISSUE

ANIL ANAND

New Delhi, Nov 26: Both Houses of Parliament on Monday continued to remain in stalemate as proceedings were paralysed for third successive day on the issue of permitting FDI in retail and a solution eluded More

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