Panun Kashmir on Sunday said political alignment between BJP and PDP in Jammu and Kashmir does not seem to have augured well for the state, and accused the alliance of having failed to trigger any cohesion towards serving the nation. The speakers at a seminar organised by Panun Kashmir, an organisation of the displaced Kashmiri Pandit community, made the observation that this “union of opposites” has failed to trigger any cohesion towards serving the nation. On the contrary, politics and governance in the state in the last six months have…
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Over 12,000 candidates appear in Combined Competitive Exam
Over 12,000 candidates from Jammu and Kashmir appeared in the Combined Competitive (Preliminary) Examination on Sunday which were held in two sessions at 26 centres across the state. “A total of 12208 candidates appeared in the examinations which were conducted smoothly,” Shakeel -ul-Rehman, Secretary Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission (JKPSC) – which conducted the examination, told PTI. Rehman said a total of 20180 candidates had applied for the examination, out of which 460 were found to be ineligible. “19720 candidates were eligible to sit in the examinations which were…
Read MoreDragon boat teams selected for national championship
J&K State Sports Council organized screening of the state dragon boat team at Nehru Park water sports center. Two teams of men and women paddlers having 14 members each will participate in the national dragon boat championship to be held in Bhopal from September 1 to September 3.
Read MoreStreamline traffic around tourist places: TAAK to traffic police
Travel Agents Association of Kashmir (TAAK) has flayed local administration especially traffic police for their failure to maintain proper traffic arrangements on boulevard and around Mughal gardens. In a statement, President of TAAK Peerzada Faiyaz Ahmed said the world famous Mughal gardens face worst criticism from the tourists thus giving a bad name to the tourism of the state. “Visiting Cheshmashahi, Nishat and Shalimar has become so painful that it takes full day to have a half day’s trip. There are no or very less parking areas demarcated around these…
Read MorePreventive detention is undemocratic: HC
The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has ruled that preventive detention is undemocratic and violates the fundamental principle of Criminal Jurisprudence. “Preventive detention is undemocratic and repugnant to rule of law. It violates fundamental principle of Criminal Jurisprudence providing for presumption of innocence of accused till he is proved guilty on a fair and transparent trial. It not only runs contrary to Constitutional ethos but also bruises the Gandhian thought, that forms weft and warp of our socio-political fabric,” a bench of Justice Hasnain Massodi ruled. The bench made these…
Read MoreSRTC to ply high-tech buses in city
Jammu and Kashmir State Road Transport Corporation (JKSRTC) will soon ply high-tech buses in the summer capital. This was stated in a meeting chaired by the Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, Dr. Asgar Hassan Samoon. On the occasion, Dr Samoon directed JKSRTC authorities to provide better transport facilities to the commuters in Srinagar especially during late hours in the evening. Dr. Samoon received a brief from concerned officers about the purchase of new high-tech passenger buses. He was informed that JKSRTC is going to purchase 200 new buses out of which sufficient…
Read MoreSince one week, over dozen youth sustain pellet injuries in Kaimoh
A youth has lost his eyesight partially while over a dozen others have sustained injuries in a week in south Kashmir’s Kaimoh tehsil with ‘indiscriminate’ use of pellet guns, officials and witnesses said, raising a question mark over the ruling Peoples Democratic Party’s repeated assertion that it was against use of such weapons on demonstrators. Kaimoh area in South Kashmir saw massive clashes and protests recently against arrest of youths, particularly in nocturnal raids, there. A doctor at Sub-District Hospital Kaimoh said they recently received many people who had pellet…
Read MoreNoida university expels 30 JK students – PMSSS Fiasco
In a grim reminder about the abject failure of Prime Minister’s Special Scholarship Scheme (PMSSS), a Noida based university has expelled at least 30 students from Jammu and Kashmir after Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India failed to release the scholarship amount in their favour. “They asked us to leave the university campus as well as the hostel accommodation instead of pursuing the matter with MHRD for early clearance of the pending scholarship amount,” complained the students studying in Noida International University. August 23 was a tough night…
Read MoreConsultations with Kashmiris essential, Pakistan tells UN
Pakistan has informed the UN about the last-minute cancellation of the NSA-level talks with India to take the international community into confidence over the Kashmir issue and the situation at the LoC, a media report said Thursday. Immediately after cancellation of the meeting between the National Security Advisors of the two countries, Pakistan’s permanent representative at the UN Maleeha Lodhi was instructed to contact the UN leadership to discuss the rejection of dialogue by India, Dawn reported. “UN Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson was briefed in detail on Monday by…
Read More‘Pakistan ready to be degraded as nation, but won’t give up Kashmir’
After starting the 1965 war, Pakistan sought an assurance from the US and United Nations for a plebiscite in Kashmir, a declassified US document has revealed. The day on which the Indian forces entered Pakistan, US Ambassador in Islamabad Walter Patrick McConaughy met the then Pakistan President Ayub Khan and Foreign Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto who wanted an assurance from the US, UN and the international community for a plebiscite in Kashmir, declassified US documents of the era reveal. During the conversation, McConaughy told them that Pakistan was responsible for…
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