The Government today ordered the placement of following KAS officers in the Selection Grade, on officiating basis, in their own pay and grade.These include Mr. Pawan Kumar, Mr. Bharat Singh, Mr. Mansoor Aslam Choudhary, Mr. Sanjay Gupta, Ms. Anu Behl, Mr. Amarjeet Singh, Mr. Ankur Mahajan, Mr. Pankaj Gupta, Mr. Mushtaq Ahmad, Ms. Ulfat Jabeen, Ms. Shagun Sharma, Mr. Gulzar Ahmad Bhat, Mr. Ghulam Hassan Sheikh, Ms. Namrita Dogra and Mr. Nasir Ahmad Lone. Consequent upon these placements, Mr. Mohammad Younis Malik, Additional Deputy Commissioner, Anantnag, has been transferred and posted…
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Pakistan using new methods to create unrest in J&K: Army Chief
Army Chief Gen Dalbir Singh today accused Pakistan of using “new methods” for creating unrest in Jammu and Kashmir and said that recent incidents of terrorist violence were clear pointers towards its attempts to extend the arc of violence to other areas. He said that the commitment of his force has increased manyfold in scope and intensity in past few years. “(Because of) the frequency of ceasefire violation and infiltration bids by our western neighbour, the border remains live and active,” he said adding that “new methods” continue to be…
Read MoreFour Youths arrested while trying to cross LoC for arms training
Army’s 6-Rashtriya Rifles and Special Operations Group on Tuesday arrested four youths when they were trying to cross Line Of Control in North Kashmir’s Kupwara area. According to the reports, all four youth belong to the Sopore area in North kashmir and have fled from their home on August 28. Police sources said that they were attempting to cross the LoC towards Pakistan for arms training, but were captured by army in Hafrooda forests area of Kupwara. The identity of youths are yet to ascertained. The news comes after a…
Read MoreSrinagar, Mumbai among top 5 cities surfing net to track ISIS-related activity
The government may claim a “very limited” influence of Islamic State (ISIS) among Indian Muslims, but that has not kept the curious young from closely following its activities and outreach on social media. If findings of a national survey by an intelligence agency are any indication, the largest volume of internet traffic related to ISIS is being generated not from urban, IT-savvy centres like Bengaluru and Hyderabad but mofussil towns like Chinchwad and Unnao, besides smaller cities such as Srinagar and Guwahati. Mumbai is the only metropolis among the top…
Read MoreKashmiri Separatist Masarat Alam Re-arrested in Jammu
Hardline Kashmiri separatist Masarat Alam was today re-arrested by police in Jammu jail premises after authorities released him following the Jammu and Kashmir High Court’s order. His Jammu and Kashmir Muslim League condemned his re-arrest and alleged he was taken to some unknown destination. “After Jammu jail authorities freed Masarat Alam following the court orders, a police party however, rearrested him and took him away to some unknown destination,” said a party spokesman. The separatist, who was arrested on April 17 for waving Pakistani flags in a separatist rally in…
Read MoreIdentity Card Obsession
Murtaza Raheem From the last few decades identity card has occupied a central importance in Kashmir. Our first reaction on noticing a cop is to confirm about the availability of our identity card. If we are going out without identity card we are committing a severe crime. Absence of identity cards can lead us to fateful results. And if you are carrying your identity card with you than you are liable to further questions, if you aren’t you are liable to stern punishments. Few months before in the blazing heat,…
Read MoreTragedy averted, explosive recovered from J&K highway
A tragedy was averted when an explosive TNT slab was seized from Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday. A Road Opening Party (ROP) of CRPF was engaged in routine duty of sanitisation of the highway when they found a TNT slab on the side of highway in Kheri area of Udhampur district about 0530 hours today, police officials said. However, police said it may be left out during the clearance of landslides in this area, they said, adding, investigation is underway into the matter.
Read MoreNo question of change of guard in J&K: BJP
As rumours about change of guard gripped J&K amid reports that Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed is not keeping well and wants to replace himself with his daughter, Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) National General Secretary Ram Madhav Monday said that there is no question of changing the Chief Minister in the State. “There is no question of change of Chief Minister in J&K,” Madhav told us in reply to a question. “When there is no question, how come BJP will know it?” The BJP National General Secretary said that coalition government…
Read MoreCentre delays scholarship to students under PMSSS
There seems to be no end to the miseries of JK students pursuing different degrees under Prime Minister’s Special Scholarship Scheme (PMSSS) in outside State colleges. A group of students who are pursuing B Tech degrees in SGT Institute of Engineering and Technology Gurgaon (Haryana) said Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has denied the scholarships to them during the last year of their degrees. “We never faced such problems during past years, but this year MHRD didn’t release our scholarships forcing college authorities to take extreme steps,” a group…
Read MoreHurriyat (G) flays ‘RSS propaganda against Muslims’
Hurriyat Conference (G) today strongly condemned, what it said, the venomous propaganda unleashed by the RSS and its partners against Muslims. “The hue and cry raised by the RSS and its allied communal and fascist partners over the increase in the population of Muslims in India is meaningless and reflection of their frustration,” a Hurriyat spokesman said, adding the issue came up for discussion at a meeting of amalgam central advisory council with general secretary Ghulam Nabi Sumji in chair. The central advisory council members on the occasion expressed grave…
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