Politics

The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference on Tuesday denounced the disengagement of 918 ICDS workers and termed the diktat as dictatorial. Taking strong exception to the order of disengaging more than 900 Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) workers with a stroke of pen and without giving a thought to the after effects of the decision on the hundreds of families, who draw their sustenance from the meager salaries, Party’s Spokesperson Imran Nabi Dar said that instead of delivering on the much touted promise of creating more job avenues in JK, the incumbent JK government is unceremoniously showing door to thousands of employee engaged in various government department on one pretext or another. The diktat, he maintained, doesn’t resonate with the GOI policy of empowering the wome...

On Thursday morning, the former member of the Jammu Kashmir legislative council and a senior politician from the National Conference from Jammu, Tarlochan Singh Wazir (67), was found dead in Moti Nagar, Delhi under mysterious circumstances. “He was found dead in the Moti Nagar area of Delhi. His family members have left for Delhi. As of now, we don’t have any other details with us,” a senior police officer said. As per a report by Hindustan Times, there are reports suggesting that he was murdered but these reports haven't been confirmed yet. The report also said that Wazir was supposed to travel to Canada but went missing in Delhi on September 2. Wazir was not only a prominent Sikh leader from Jammu, he was also the president of the Jammu Kashmir Motor Transporters' Association an...

The former chief minister of the erstwhile state of Jammu Kashmir and the PDP president Mehbooba Mufti took to Twitter on Sunday and criticized GOI's action of booking the late Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani's family under UAPA. Mehbooba criticized the GOI for not allowing the family of the veteran leader to mourn and bid farewell to Syed Ali Shah Geelani as per their wishes. "Having turned Kashmir into an open-air prison, now even the dead aren’t spared. A family isn’t allowed to mourn & bid a final farewell as per their wishes," she wrote on Twitter. "Booking Geelani Sahab's family under UAPA shows GOI’s deep-rooted paranoia & ruthlessness. This is New India’s Naya Kashmir," she added. S.A.S Geelani passed away Wednesday evening at 10:00 PM, after which a commu...

Former Chief Minister of the erstwhile state of Jammu Kashmir and the president of the PDP, Mehbooba Mufti, on Saturday slammed GOI for imposing "a complete siege including a communications blackout." Mehbooba, responding to a tweet made by a Kashmiri Sikh woman expressing the ordeal of her family who lost a family member and were unable to communicate with anyone during the recent communications blackout, rendered GOI's dubious claims of people of J&K enjoying equal rights as "barefaced lies." "GOI’s dubious claims that people of J&K now enjoy equal rights is a barefaced lie as truth is that even their basic human rights dead or alive are suspended with pervasive impunity," Mehbooba said in the tweet. She termed the "ease with which GOI imposes a complete siege including ...

Warning bureaucrats of the consequences of their ‘anti-people’ actions, National Conference leader Dr Farooq Abdullah Tuesday said bureaucrats will be accountable tomorrow for what they have done. Speaking to the reporters on the sidelines of an official function at SKICC Srinagar, Farooq Abdullah said that those bureaucrats who don’t bother to pick up the phone calls of people and politicians will have to answer tomorrow. Farooq Abdullah as per news agency Kashmir News Trust said that bureaucrats are the servants of people and they have to work for the masses. “These officers today think they are the kings but they are not the kings, simply the servants of people. They have to answer tomorrow and they will be held accountable tomorrow for what they have been doing today,” Abdulla...