Category: Happenings

Happenings

Citing Mehbooba Mufti’s actions and words TS Bajwa, Ved Mahajan & Hussain A Waffa resigns from PDP

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Three leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have resigned citing Mehbooba Mufti’s “actions and undesirable utterances”, according to news agency ANI on Monday. The PDP leaders TS Bajwa, Ved Mahajan and Hussain A Waffa, who resigned from the PDP, wrote to party president Mufti citing their reasons. According to ANI, they said in the letter that they are “feeling quite uncomfortable over some of her actions and undesirable utterances especially which hurt patriotic sentiments”. Mufti had said last week that her party’s members would not raise the tricolour unless…

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Enforcement Directorate questions Farooq Abdullah in J&K Cricket Association Scam

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National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah is being questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Srinagar office in connection with its probe into the multi-crore Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) scam, officials familiar with the development said on Monday, prompting his party to condemn the questioning. Farooq Abdullah’s son Omar Abdullah said the questioning was political vendetta and connected to the alliance forged by six parties from Jammu and Kashmir over the restoration of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir. “The party will be responding to this ED summons…

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Vehicular movement restrictions on Fridays from Oct 16 to Nov 30 on national highway: Traffic police

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Security forces asked not to ply against advisory’ Traffic police has issued an advisory imposing restrictions on vehicular movement on Srinagar-Jammu national highway on all Fridays from October 16 to November 30 citing maintenance of the highway as a reason. Additional Director General of Police Traffic J&K, Srinagar, in a communique, a copy of which is available with the news said that in connection with the maintenance of NH-44, on every Friday starting from October 16-10-2020 to November 30, routine advisors with regard to traffic movement other than Fridays shall…

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Encounter breaks out between rebels & security forces in Barzulla

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An encounter broke out between security forces and militants in Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar on Monday, police said. Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Old Barzulla area of the city here in the early hours of Monday after receiving specific inputs about the presence of militants in the area, a police official said. Around 7.45 am, when searches were under way, the militants opened fire on the forces, he said. The forces retaliated and an encounter ensued, he added. After the initial contact, there was a lull…

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Three rebels, woman killed; CRPF officer wounded in Batmaloo gunfight

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Three rebels and a 45-year-old woman were killed and an officer of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) injured in a gunfight in Batmaloo area of Srinagar district on Thursday. In a tweet, a police spokesman said that three rebels were killed in the gunfight whose identity is being ascertained. He said searches are still going on in the area. A senior police officer told news agency GNS that a woman identified as Kounsar Riyaz of Batmaloo received a bullet wound during the gunfight. She was immediately shifted to Police hospital,…

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Internet Snapped in Sopore after protests erupted over alleged custodial death

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Protests have erupted in Jammu and Kashmir’s restive Sopore town after a shopkeeper was allegedly killed in police custody. The police maintain the man worked with terrorists and he died after escaping from police custody. All internet services have been snapped in north Jammu and Kashmir’s Sopore town after death of a shopkeeper, allegedly in police custody, led to protests. The family has alleged that Irfan Ahmad Dar was tortured to death after he and his brother, Javid Ahmad, were picked up by police from their shop on Tuesday afternoon.…

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Amid border tensions with India, China throws open Pangong Tso Lake for international tourists

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After facing pushback from the Indian army at the Line of Actual Control, China has now resorted to newer strategies to make their side stronger. China has now thrown open the Pangong Tso Lake to international tourists and domestic tourists as well. The move comes just days after India asked China not to escalate matters at the Line of Actual Control. A recent meeting took place wherein India’s Defence Minister met Chinese counterpart in Moscow, to discuss the India-China border standoff. The videos of opening Pangong Tso Lake to the…

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PDP holding first meet post revocation of Article 370

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The authorities did not allow the first-ever meeting of the People’s Democratic Party post August 5 last year without assigning any reasons, according to a senior party functionary who had convened the meeting on Thursday morning to discuss the political situation as a consequence of abrogation of Article 370. The PDP had sought permission for holding a meeting at its office in Srinagar, but without assigning any reason, the meeting was not allowed, according to PDP general secretary Ghulam Nabi Lone Hanjura. The meeting was scheduled for 11 am on…

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Scores feared dead as minibus falls into Chenab in Ramban

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Nine persons were feared dead after a Tempo Traveller rolled down into the Chenab in the Mehar area of Ramban district this evening. According to the police, the driver of the Tempo, which was on its way to Ramban from Udhampur, lost his control over the vehicle, resulting in its fall in the river. “The lone survivor in the mishap said they were just 1 km short of Ramban town when the accident took place around 4.30 pm,” a police official said. Deputy Commissioner Ramban Nazim Zai Khan said the…

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China opens new front along bank of Pangong Tso lake in Ladakh, Experts say fresh face-off reflects grim reality of LAC situation

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The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has opened a new front along the disputed Line of Actual Control (LAC), with its “provocative military movements” on the southern bank of Pangong Tso lake in Ladakh in the intervening night of August 29 and 30 aimed at altering the status quo in the area, people familiar with the developments said on Monday. So far, Chinese aggression in this sector was confined to the lake’s northern bank, the Finger Area that has emerged as the toughest part of the disengagement process. “The PLA’s…

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