The Jammu and Kashmir government is mulling to rope in female teachers, panches and sarpanches to sell low-cost rupee one sanitary napkin in conservative Kashmir's rural areas with around five lakh stock pending unsold. Peerzada Ashiq reports.
A Special Police Officer was among two villagers buried under an avalanche while 10 others escaped narrowly in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah got international support for his pitch against misuse of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (Afspa) when international rights body Amnesty a issued statement backing Abdullah’s argument.
As rare adventure sports heli-skiing lifted spirits of Kashmir tourism this year, attracting hundreds of foreigners and locals, chief minister Omar Abdullah today chose to be a poster boy of world famous ski resort Gulmarg by tweeting his stunt picture while skiing on the steep slopes. Peerzada Ashiq reports.
Chief minister Omar Abdullah, has launched a full fledged verbal onslaught on the armed forces on the alleged fake encounter of Pathribal in Kashmir 12 years ago and at the same time upped the ante on the revocation of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act from Jammu and Kashmir-the prime target of Pakistani based and trained terrorists.
Parts of Kashmir Valley today received fresh snowfall even as the residents got respite from severe cold wave with minimum temperature increasing by several degrees.
In a paradigm shift, United Jehad Council chief Syed Salahuddin has backed separatists' move to relate public issues in Kashmir with "occupation" ahead of local bodies' polls and pledged more attacks saying "role of gun has become more important in present scenario".
In a first, the army on Wednesday conferred gallantry awards on Jammu and Kashmir police officers. The list of five, however, included two officers whose names had surfaced in connection with a custodial death in Sopore district in 2011, HT reports.
One militant was today killed when a gunbattle broke out between ultras and security forces near the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Chief minister Omar Abdullah tweeted on Thursday: "Today (Thursday) marks another year of an incomplete #Kashmir. Need to redouble efforts to facilitate the return of #Pandits to their rightful homes." Arun Joshi reports.
With over 3,100 vehicles, mostly trucks and tankers, stranded on the 300-km-long Jammu-Srinagar National Highway due to snowfall and landslides, state authorities are trying to clear them before allowing fresh traffic on the arterial road.
Leh town in Ladakh recorded the coldest night of this season as mercury settled at a low of minus 21.8 degrees Celsius, an official of the MeT department said.
The pilot of an IndiGo Airlines flight, carrying 168 passengers, on Saturday had to use emergency brake while preparing for takeoff as a bus ferrying people to an IAF plane appeared on the runway at the airport in Jammu.