June 28, 2018 | Kashmir POST

Two Valley students to represent India at Kick Boxing Championship in Argentina

June 28, 2018 Editor

Two Kashmiri students will represent India at the World Kick-boxing Championship, which will be held in November at Buenos Aires in Argentina. The participants, Aabid Hamid and Hashim Ashraf, are students of Army Goodwill School, Hanzik, and have been selected to represent India at the championship, the Army said in a statement. The championship will be held in Argentina from November 5 to 10. The Army in its statement said the two students had “consistently performed in martial arts competitions at the school, district, state, national and international levels in…

Lal Singh holds torchlight march in support of handing over the Kathua Rape & Murder case to the CBI

June 28, 2018 Editor

The scion of the erstwhile royal Dogra family on Wednesday joined the campaign launched by former minister and Basholi MLA Choudhary Lal Singh in support of handing over the Kathua rape and murder case to the CBI. On Wednesday, Lal Singh took out a torchlight procession in posh localities of Gandhi Nagar and Trikuta Nagar in Jammu city to mobilise public support for his campaign. Ranvijay Singh, member of the erstwhile royal family and the son of BJP lawmaker Ajatshatru Singh and grandson of veteran Congress leader Karan Singh, accompanied…

Govt formation possible? BJP leaders hold meet with Sajad Lone

June 28, 2018 Editor

Days after pulling out of the government with its coalition partner Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the rightwing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national General Secretary Ram Madhav Wednesday held a two-hour long meeting with senior BJP leaders and People Conference (PC) Chairman Sajjad Gani Lone here in a local hotel. Madhav was accompanied by BJP State President Ravinder Raina and some former ministers of the party including former deputy chief minister Kavinder Gupta. According to sources privy to the meeting, Sajad is believed to play a “crucial role in the future…

Shujaat Bukhari’s killers identified, one of them is a Pakistani: J&K Police

June 28, 2018 Editor

Two men from Kashmir and a Pakistani killed senior journalist Shujaat Bukhari in Srinagar on June 14, said Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday. “The case has been solved and all the attackers identified,” said a senior police officer. He identified the Pakistani as Naveed Jutt, who had escaped from the police custody. Bukhari, 48, the editor-in-chief of Rising Kashmir, was attacked by three gunmen on a motorcycle while he was in his car. His two security guards were also killed as multiple bullets were sprayed at them A special…

Amarnath Yatra flagged off from Jammu, Gets largest-ever security cover

June 28, 2018 Editor

The first batch of 2,995 pilgrims, including 120 sadhus, left the Jammu base camp in 110 vehicles on Wednesday morning for the holy Amarnath shrine in south Kashmir. The convoy was escorted by security forces. K Vijay Kumar and BB Vyas, both Advisers to the Governor, along with Chief Secretary BVR Subrahmanyam flagged off the first batch of pilgrims. A traditional puja was performed before the flagging off ceremony at Bhagwati Nagar here. This year, two convoys departed from Jammu — one for Chandanwari at Pahalgam and another for Baltal…