Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Friday said the BJP should try to save their party instead of worrying about Kashmiris.
While the separatists are feeling “vindicated” for their stand on boycotting the interlocutors on the future of Jammu and Kashmir, mainstream parties have endorsed “some good elements in the report”.
With two more infant deaths in the past 24 hours, the crisis for the Omar Abdullah-led government deepened on Saturday. Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad too blamed the state government for failing to utilize Central assistance of Rs. 65 crore for a children’s hospital.
A corporate executive in Srinagar is in a spot. His boss from Delhi is supposed to arrive on May 24 but he cannot put him up in a good hotel.
Union home minister, P Chidambaram reviewed prevailing law and order and security situation along with chief minister Omar Abdullah at a high level meeting of officers in Srinagar on Wednesday evening.
Four children died overnight at the GB Pant Hospital in Srinagar, taking the death toll at Kashmir's only paediatric hospital to 363 this year.
Militants carried out two grenade attacks in Sopore town and Batamaloo area of Kashmir on Saturday, leaving seven persons injured, including four policemen.
Facing severe criticism over increasing number of infant deaths, chief minister Omar Abdullah today made a surprise visit to the valley’s lone children hospital, GB Pant Hospital, and admitted “there is scope for improvement in the functioning and maintenance of hospital”.
The Army today said it is demining outer perimeter of eight of its camps in north Kashmir as the threat of suicide attacks by militants has subsided over the years.
Calling for an all out war against corruption in the state, opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today said the present dispensation had degenerated into a coalition of the vested interest that had institutionalized loot at the highest level.
Four armymen, including a colonel and his deputy, were hospitalised after a free-for-all involving the jawans and the officers of an artillery unit in the sensitive Ladakh sector on Thursday.
The “minor scuffle” between army officers and troops in Ladakh near the Indo-China border this week was, at worst, “an isolated act of indiscipline” and the situation was well under control, the army said on Saturday.
More than 100 youths, who had gone to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) for arms training during the last two decades, have quietly returned home following the announcement of rehabilitation policy for them by the Jammu and Kashmir government.