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JAMMU: Jammu and Kashmir’s ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) MLA Aijaz Ahmed Mir has triggered huge row by describing Kashmiri militants are our brothers. While speaking to reporters outside the Assembly, he said “Militants who are…

 JAMMU: With a focus on reaping the harvest of the radical fiscal reforms undertaken by the State Government during the past three budgetary exercises, the Minister of Finance, Dr Haseeb A Drabu, today presented his 4th Budget in the State…

SOPORE: The low lying electric wire in Jalalabad Sopore area of North Kashmir’s Baramulla district has been posing risk to the life and property, while the concerned department is making no efforts to set it right. A delegation from the…

Wahid Bhat SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education (BOSE) on Thursday declared the class 12th results. As per BOSE figures, the overall pass percentage is 61.44. The pass percentage of boys is 58.92 percent and that of…

SRINAGAR: Chairman Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Geelani while paying rich tributes to slain militant and youth in Chadoora and Kulgam on Tuesday, said these “brave-hearts” are facing a big power and lay their lives to end the “age-old…

SRINAGAR: MLA Langate Er Rasheed on Wednesday asked National Investigation Agency to take care for its “credibility”, claiming that the investigation agency was being used for mere “political gains” by the ruling dispensation. In his…

SRINAGAR: Security situation apart, there are various other killers quite active in Jammu and Kashmir. There were as many as 547 suicide deaths reported across J&K in last two years. The road accidents killed 958 persons in 2016 and 791…

SRINAGAR: Nearly half a million kanals of lands are under the occupation of various security forces, details tabled in the House by the state government said. Interestingly, the Ladakh belt has most of the land occupied, illegally.…

Rameez Makhdoomi SRINAGAR: Unemployment is among the gravest problems confronted by the state of Jammu & Kashmir with 88,040 unemployed youth registered in various district employment and counseling centers in the state, the government…

Bilal Bashir Bhat SRINAGAR: With the arrival of New Year 2018, the unabated bloodshed has come to haunt Kashmir once again with only in first ten of January some 11 persons were killed in Valley which including 4 policemen, 3 local…