May 14, 2022 | Kashmir POST

4 Dead, 22 Injured after bus catches fire near Katra

May 14, 2022May 14, 2022 Editor

Four persons were charred to death and 24 others suffered burn injuries when a passenger bus, carrying Vaishnodevi pilgrims, mysteriously caught fire on Katra-Jammu road on Friday. Eyewitnesses said that the passenger bus, bearing registration number JK14-8131, was full of Vaishnodevi pilgrims and was on its way to Jammu from Katra, when the mishap occurred. The bus, according to the witnesses, was outside the town of Katra when it mysteriously caught fire. In panic, the passengers jumped out of the burning bus, they said, and added that the police and…

The Supreme Court raps counsel for saying Kashmir became part of India after scrapping of Article 370

May 14, 2022 Editor

The Supreme Court on Friday cautioned a counsel who in the course of his arguments said Kashmir became a part of the country after abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A of the Constitution in August 2019 to be careful about his language. “No. It has remained a part of the country for long time. These are certain special provisions. Careful in what language you use,” Justice S K Kaul, presiding a two-judge bench, told Ravi Shankar Jandhyala, while hearing a plea that challenged the delimitation exercise, which recommended increasing the…

Drive continue to weed out employees with terror links, KU Professor among three employees terminated for Terror Links

May 14, 2022 Editor

Jammu and Kashmir administration on Friday invoked Article 311 of the Constitution of India yet again to dismiss its three more employees, including a professor of Kashmir University, Police Constables and a teacher from service for their alleged “militancy links and secessionist activities”. Official sources said that Altaf Hussain Pandit, chemistry Professor of Kashmir University is among three government employees, who have been sacked by the JK administration for “actively supporting militancy”. The two others are Mohd Maqbool Hajam, a teacher in the school education department and Ghulam Rasool, a…

Over 350 Kashmiri Pandit employees resign post killing of Rahul Bhat

May 14, 2022 Editor

The killing of the 35-year-old Rahul Bhat has attracted strong condemnation from political parties and employees’ association Mass resignation by more than 350 Kashmiri Pandit Prime Minister Package Employees in Kashmir has been sent to Lt. Governor Manoj Sinha today. Two Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists had entered a crowded government office and shot dead a Kashmiri Pandit employee in Budgam district in central Kashmir on Thursday, in a targeted killing that drew strong condemnation from political parties and employees’ association. Later, Kashmir Tigers claimed responsibility for the killing. Rahul Bhat (35), who…