Category: General News

General News

Preventive detention is undemocratic: HC

Editor

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 More

SRTC to ply high-tech buses in city

Editor

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 More

Rahul slams Modi govt for not helping J&K

Editor

‘PDP-BJP in an opportunistic coalition’ Castigating the Modi government for not helping Jammu and Kashmir, Congress Vice-president Rahul Gandhi Thursday said it failed to benefit the State by pushing progressive schemes initiated by United Progressive Alliance (UPA) to back burner. “NDA government was a government of three or four businessmen and nobody would benefit from them. Earlier we thought it was suit boot ki Sarkaar but today we see it is a government of three or four businessmen,” Rahul said while speaking to saffron growers at Dusso village, here today.…

Read More

KP’s integral part of culture, ethos of Kashmir, Kashmiriyat: Veeri

Editor

Emphasizing on the rich tradition of the state to celebrate different festivals with amity, Minister for Horticulture, Haj and Auqaf, Abdul Rehman Veeri has called for strengthening the diverse culture of Jammu and Kashmir. Interacting with Kashmiri Migrant pandits on the occasion of celebration of annual Kapal Mochan Shradh festival at Nagbal, Shopian, the Minister expressed the hope that the Yatra will restore the trust between the Kashmiri majority and Kashmiri minority and called the ”festival a step in the right direction”. He said that celebrating festivals together with amity…

Read More

“Militancy rooted out by Congress revived during PDP-BJP rule”: Rahul

Editor

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Thursday said People’s Democratic Party befooled the people of Kashmir by forming the government with a party that was untouchable for it during the election time. “PDP sought votes from people to keep BJP at bay but after elections it joined hands with the same party which according to it was anti-people and anti-Kashmir,” Gandhi told reporters outside Dak Bungalow Sopore. He said that both BJP and PDP care a fig for the people and these parties are interested in power rather than allaying the…

Read More

Do not politicise my JK Visit : Rahul Gandhi

Editor

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday lashed out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for politicising his visit to Jammu and Kashmir. ”BJP says ‘Rahul Gandhi is on a tour’. For them, meeting the poor is a tour, when they meet industrialists its politics,” he said while a addressing a gathering in Baramulah. Rahul Gandhi pointed out that the people who were affected by ceasefire violations wanted compensation for the damages suffered by them. Gandhi also condemned the opposition’s move to play politics over the Congress’ posters and flags in Srinagar. ”The Congress Party…

Read More

Facebook, Twitter make LoC irrelevant for users in two parts of Kashmir

Editor

Thousands of users from PoK and Gilgit-Baltistan region are friends with each other on Facebook Internet particularly social networking sites have made the Line of Control which is known as ‘khooni lakeer’ or bloody line to many people living on the two sides of the de facto border irrelevant in many ways. Thousands of Facebook users in Jammu and Kashmir are in the friend list of those from Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan region of the State which Pakistan claims to be its ‘Northern Areas’. They interact through the website and exchange…

Read More

‘Increasing number of Kashmiri youth taking to militancy’

Editor

Increasing number of Kashmiri youth joining militancy is a matter of concern, a top army commander said on Wednesday while talking about the strategy of Pakistan-based terror groups to focus on recruiting locals after their “failure” to push in terrorists. Outgoing Commander of Srinagar-based 15 Corps Lt. Gen. Subrata Saha said “several motives” are being exploited by recruiters, including religious radicalisation, discontent due to personal or academic failures, links with terrorists and over-ground workers and desire for recognition or status. “Any youth joining terrorists’ ranks is a cause of concern,”…

Read More

Burhan’s first-ever video mesage for Kashmiri youth emerges as new worry for security apparatus

Editor

During the address, Hizb commander is also seen sermonising the state police in a condescending statement. Strategically leveraging the power of social media yet again, Burhan Wani, after having gradually emerged as the ‘poster boy’ of new age militancy in Kashmir, has for the first time sent out a message for valley’s youth in his latest video. The 21-year-old Hizb commander had recently grabbed headlines when video and photos featuring him went viral on social media platforms including Facebook and Whatsapp. In his latest five and half minute video, which comes after an…

Read More

CITU call for nationwide strike on 2nd Sept

Editor

Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami, President, Centre of India Trade Unions(CITU) J&K State Committee addressed the press conference today at Srinagar, appealing the trade unions, employees plate forms to join the countrywide general strike on 2nd September, 2015 He was accompanied by Ab. Gani Bhat, Ab. Rashid Najar CITU leaders, Jammela Sabri General Secretary Angan wari Workers/Helpers Union, Misra, President ASHA Workers Union, Nisar Ahmad, President Kashmir Handicraft Workers Union, Javid Pandit, President Centaur Hotel Union, Tariq Rasool, Vice-President Kashmir Casual Workers Union The dismal scenario of social security benefits to the…

Read More