Category: Jammu

SRINAGAR, JUNE 13 (PTK): Scores of woman Wednesday blocked the Srinagar-Jammu highway at Drangbal Pampore and disrupted traffic movement on the highway to protest against PDD. They were shouting slogans against the officials of PDD and Tehsildar Pampore and demanding repairing of an electric transformer at Drangbal. The protesting women alleged that local electric transformer was…

SRINAGAR, JUNE 13 (PTK): A massive search operation in Panar forest of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district entered 5th day on Wednesday. With special commandos and paratroopers on job, the intermittent exchange of gunfire was still on between the militants and forces. Though there was a brief lull in gunfire yesterday, massive exchange of fire was reported…

SRINAGAR, JUNE 13 (PTK): Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan (SSA) teachers on Wednesday staged a peaceful protest against the government for failing to fulfill their demands, in Lal Chowk Srinagar. Scores of the SSA protestors assembled outside civil Secretariat gate in Srinagar, while shouting anti-governmental and anti-administration slogans demanded the pending salaries of three-months according to seventh pay…

SRINAGAR, JUNE 13 (PTK): Demanding the immediate release of thousands of political prisoners lodged in various jails in and outside the Kashmir, APHC demanded unconditional release of all the prisoners before the Eid-ul-Fitr stating that the plight of Kashmiri prisoners was disappointing as they are being meted out ill treatment. The APHC said that people irrespective…

SRINAGAR, JUNE 13 (PTK): Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti has expressed deep anguish and grief over the death of four BSF personnel, including an officer, in a cross-border shelling incident in the Ramgarh sector of Samba district today.   Paying rich tributes to the slain personnel, the Chief Minister reiterated her demand for cessation of hostilities…