Month: September 2020

Mir Junaid An elderly woman from Sopore area in North kashmir's Baramulla district claimed that her sons and husband threw her out of the house, sought the help of the Government. Bakhti Begum aged 65 on Wednesday appeared in Press Enclave of Srinagar and said, "My husband Muhammad Sultan Ganie has forcibly dragged her out from her house in Sopore township of North Kashmir." She said that she had been rendered homeless and is wandering on the streets as her sons are not allowing her to re-enter the house alleging that she approached the authroities including the police to help her, but nobody has helped her as of yet. Appealing the authorities for their timely intervention, she said, “I want authorities to help me and initiate action against my husband and sons for fragging me ...

The National Conference (JKNC) leader, Farooq Abdullah has accused the Bhartiya Janta Party of playing communal politics, after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s national general secretary, Ram Madhav, accused Farooq Abdullah and Jammu and Kashmir’s other regional mainstream leaders of “trying to inject a dangerous Islamist discourse into the state politics." We never did it and they are playing it and this will drown them, Farooq Abdullah said while speaking to reporters in Srinagar after offering Fateh Khwani at the grave of his father and Kashmiri leader Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah commemorating his 38th death anniversary. “NC never played politics over religion. That is our history. What was the motto of Sher-e-Kashmir (Sheikh Abdullah)? It was ‘Sher-e-Kashmir ka kya irshad; Hindu,...

Former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has written to the administration in Jammu Kashmir informing that he will vacate his government house by the end of October. Posting this letter on his social media, he said that he is taking this step voluntarily and the news in the media last year was wrong. He has written that he has not received any notice to leave the house, he is taking these steps with his heart. In a letter to the Administrative Secretary of Jammu Kashmir, he has told that I was allotted house number G-1 in 2002 on Gupkar Road, Srinagar. "When I became Chief Minister in 2008, I was allotted house number G-5 as Chief Minister's residence. Till 2015 I lived in this house. I have been living since then," Omar has also written that he never took any government property no...

The administration in Jammu Kashmir administration on Tuesday decided to continue with the slow speed internet (2G) internet facility outside the districts of Ganderbal and Udhampur. The administration said “it is absolutely necessary so to do in the interest of the sovereignty and integrity of India.” Earlier, high-speed facility was restored on a trial basis in Kashmir’s Ganderbal and Jammu division's Udhampur on August 16. The fresh order said that it would continue till this month-end as there has been no report of its misuse in the two districts. In an order issued this evening, Principal Secretary in the Home Department Shaleen Kabra said that after a fresh review of the situation, it has been decided that internet speed will remain restricted to 2G in the rest of the 18 ...