Page 15 - Kashmir

Kashmir's targeted killings: The costs of un-wrinkling history?

The militants aim may be no more than to frighten Kashmiri Pandits trying to reclaim properties and to challenge official position of normalcy after the revocation of the provisions of Article 370.

Kashmir: NIA summons 40 teachers to probe civilian target killings

NIA has summoned 40 teachers in connection with civilian target killings here, the investigation of which the agency has formally taken over from the local police

Lakhimpur Kheri to Kashmir, via Punjab

Crisis in Lakhimpur Kheri, anger in Punjab, violence in Kashmir can become a dangerous cocktail. India can't risk relighting fires that have burnt it in the past

Internet services on mobile devices restored in 8 districts of Kashmir

The internet services on mobile devices were restored in eight of the 10 districts in the Kashmir valley on Monday, police said. Voice call and internet services, except the lease lines, were snapped late on Wednesday night, hours after death of hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani at his Hyderpora residence. The mobile internet services were restored in all districts of the valley Monday except Srinagar and Budgam districts around 7 pm, a police official said. The suspension of these services in Srinagar and Budgam districts will be reviewed on Tuesday, police said. While voice call and internet services on broadband and fibre platforms were restored on Friday night, the internet services on mobile devices remained suspended till Monday. "Mobile internet will be open shortly today by 7 pm in all districts except Srinagar & Budgam. Will review about Srinagar & Budgam tomorrow afternoon," Inspector General of Police, Kashmir zone, Vijay Kumar tweeted.

Mobile Internet being restored in Valley barring Srinagar, Budgam

Authorities in Kashmir announced that mobile Internet facility is being restored from Monday night except in Srinagar and Budgam

Mobile Internet services to be restored in Kashmir today evening

The mobile Internet services will be restored in Kashmir on Monday evening

Kashmir: Restrictions on assembly of people, internet snapped again

Restrictions on assembly of people remained in force in most parts of Kashmir Valley after the death of hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani

Have right to raise voice for Muslims in Kashmir, says Taliban

MEA Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said India's immediate focus in Afghanistan is to ensure that Afghan soil is not used for terrorist activities

'Need not worry about fallout from Taliban rule of Afghanistan in Kashmir'

The General Officer Commanding of the Army's 15 Corps, also known as the Chinar Corps, Lieutenant General D P Pandey, said this to reporters on the sidelines of an event here.

Top Pakistani ultra among two JeM militants killed in encounter in Pulwama

Police said Mohd. Ismal Alvi, alias Lamboo, was family member of Masood Azhar and was involved in conspiring in the February 2019 Pulwama terror attack in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed

Will let Kashmiris decide if they want to join Pakistan: PM Imran Khan

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday said that Islamabad would let the people of Kashmir decide if they want to join Pakistan or become an 'independent state'

India Coronavirus Dispatch: SC questions lifting of curbs in Kerala

How Kashmiris are being convinced to take Covid shot, study finds no trace of mRNA vaccine in human milk, and more-news relevant to India's fight against the pandemic

Three arrested by NIA in Kashmir for peddling ISIS unit's propaganda

The National Investigation Agency has arrested three people from South Kashmir for allegedly being involved in a conspiracy of the banned terrorist organisation ISIS

RSS chief to address meeting of Muslim Rashtriya Manch, focus on Kashmir

Sources said the focus of the meeting would be Kashmir and making separatists leaders and those who still talk about Article 370 and 35 A irrelevant in the country

J-K: Chidambaram slams govt for insisting on polls before giving statehood

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Friday said it is bizarre that the government wants to hold elections in Jammu and Kashmir first and grant statehood later. He said the Congress and other parties in Jammu and Kashmir want statehood first and the elections later. "Congress and other J&K parties and leaders want Statehood first and Elections afterward.Government's response is Elections first and Statehood later," he said on Twitter. "The horse pulls the cart. A state must conduct elections. Only such elections will be free and fair. Why does the government want the cart in front and the horse behind? It is bizarre," he added. Nearly two years after the bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir into two UTs and revocation of its special status, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday held talks with top political leaders from the erstwhile state, and said the Centre's priority is to strengthen grassroots democracy there for which delimitation has to happen quickly so that polls can be

J&K integral part of India; no amount of questioning can change it: MEA

Pakistan has been making concerted efforts to internationalise the Kashmir issue.

'Unbridled' bureaucratic powers: Omar Abdullah on Kashmir activist's arrest

It's unacceptable that a person should be jailed for expressing a "totally harmless" opinion, Abdullah said.

4 including 2 civilians, 2 cops killed in Sopore militant attack

Earlier reports had said only one civilian was injured in this incident.

J&K govt suspends 13 officers for unauthorised withdrawal of funds

The Jammu and Kashmir government has suspended 13 officers for unauthorised withdrawal of developmental funds

Administrative apathy fatal than Covid-19 pandemic: Mehbooba Mufti

PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday lambasted the BJP-led government at the Centre for abandoning people at the crucial juncture