New Delhi : Three IT majors – Microsoft, Tech Avant-Garde and Efee Online – have come together to help Kashmiri students to make up for their academic losses due to frequent shutdowns and curfews in the insurgency-ravaged state. The three ...
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Srinagar : A blanket ban was announced on Thursday on the use of smartphones by police guards during duty hours in Jammu and Kashmir following a rising number of incidents of weapon snatching by militants. In a detailed order, A.K. ...
Read More »Authorities in Srinagar ban begging
Srinagar : The District Magistrate of Srinagar on Wednesday issued an order to ban begging around religious and other public places in Jammu and Kashmir’s summer capital. District Magistrate Syed Abid Rashid issued a magisterial order directing all concerned not ...
Read More »Ramadan ceasefire In Kashmir meaningless if media war continues
By Saeed Naqvi, I have never seen the electronic media so totally defiant of the BJP government. Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s avowed intention to calm Kashmir by announcing a Ramadan ceasefire appears to have been dismissed as “appeasement of Pakistan ...
Read More »Modi in J&K: Internet suspended, schools closed
Srinagar : Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Leh town of the Ladakh region on Saturday beginning his day-long visit to Jammu and Kashmir amid hightended security as authorities suspended internet services and shut down schools and colleges for the ...
Read More »Death of a professor: Why did he cross the thick, dark line?
By Sheikh Qayoom, Srinagar : He had a doctoral degree, a contractual job in the university and a bright future ahead in academics. He was married to a girl barely 20 years of age and was respected as a teacher. ...
Read More »2 Kashmiri youth held for hacking 500 Indian websites
New Delhi : Delhi Police on Friday arrested two Kashmiri students from Punjab who were involved in hacking over 500 Indian websites, including those of the government, police said. The accused have been identified as Shahid Malla, a CSE student ...
Read More »Attempt to defame Hindus through Kathua case: Giriraj Singh
Patna : Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Friday said as part of a sinister political design, attempts are being made to defame Hindus through the Kathua rape-murder case in Jammu and Kashmir. Speaking at a function in Bihar’s Nawada, his ...
Read More »De-radicalization of youth must for peace in Kashmir: Army
New Delhi : With the Kashmir Valley enveloped by rising violence, the Indian Army on Friday said it would prioritize bringing radicalized youth to the mainstream through a “collective approach” and convince militants to “shun violence and gun culture”. The ...
Read More »Vohra briefs President on overall security situation in J&K
Jammu : Jammu and Kashmir Governor N.N. Vohra on Wednesday briefed President Ram Nath Kovind about the issues concerning internal and external security in the state. The President is on a two-day visit to the state. Vohra is hosting a ...
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