Author: Shabeer Ahmad

The Supreme Court on Friday sought a response from the Jammu and Kashmir high court in a petition related to backdoor appointments of relatives of judges and other judicial staff in courts. Jammu and Kashmir People’s Forum, an NGO, had filed the petition through advocate Raj Kishor Chaudhary. In its petition, the NGO has prayed […]

With nine back-to-back tremors jolting Jammu and Kashmir this week, experts and geologists are extremely rattled. Are these tremors a harbinger for the worst that is to come soon? Seismologists have sounded a warning and said that in the wake of the recent quakes, precautionary measures should be put in place urgently. On Saturday, two […]

At least six former MLAs, some of them ministers in erstwhile state government, resigned from the grand old party on Friday following Ghulam Nabi Azad’s decision to quit. While five of them tendered a joint resignation, former cabinet minister RS Chib submitted it separately. But all of them have done it in support of Azad, […]

Amid rising attempts to infiltrate the Line of Control, the Indian Army gunned down three heavily armed terrorists in the Uri Sector of Baramulla district in Jammu and Kashmir. The Army said it foiled an infiltration attempt by Pakistani terrorists in forward areas of Uri Sector on August 25, culminating in the killing of three […]

National Conference on Wednesday hinted that it will not contest Assembly elections jointly with the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), an alliance of several parties which came together with the claim to fight for the restoration of J&K’s special status. “The provincial committee members (of the National Conference) unanimously resolved that JKNC should prepare […]

A court in Jammu on Tuesday issued a bailable warrant against Rubaiya Sayeed after she failed to appear for her cross-examination by Yasin Malik, whom she had identified as her abductor during the last hearing of the case. Advocate Monika Kohli, the special public prosecutor for CBI, said that Rubaiya Sayeed did not appear in […]

Days after the Indian Army foiled an attempt to infiltrate the Line of Control (LoC) by a suspected Pakistani terrorist for the second time, it foiled another attempt by terrorists on Tuesday. Reconnaissance by quadcopter showed the bodies of two infiltrating terrorists in the Lam area of Nowshera in Rajouri district, suggesting the Army had […]

Former JK Chief Minister Omar Abdullah will not dance anymore. “Never Again,” Omar tweeted, after a video of his breaking into a jig at a ceremony went viral

An intruder from Pakistan, who was trying to cross into India for the second time, was injured in Army firing in Rajouri on Sunday. Initial investigations by J&K Police and other security agencies revealed that the accused was arrested in 2016 for trying to cross the Line of Control. He remained in jail for 26 […]

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday claimed she had been put under house arrest to stop her from visiting the family of Kashmiri Pandit Sunil Kumar Bhat, who was shot dead by terrorists in Shopian last week. “GOI wants to push the plight of Kashmiri Pandits under the rug because it’s their […]