Srinagar: With hours left before Diwali, there has been a suspected terror attack at the heart of Srinagar's Lal Chowk area. In two separate attacks in Srinagar on Tuesday, grenades were hurled at two different areas in Lal Chowk. While two CRPF jawans have been injured in the Maisuma blast, there were no reports of any injuries so far from Batamaloo. The police and CRPF personnel have cordoned off both...
01:04 PM, Oct 25, 2011
Srinagar: Security has been tightened as tension prevailed in Maisuma and Lal Chowk areas of the city where markets remained closed following the arrest of JKLF chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik. Shops, schools and business establishments in Maisuma and Lal Chowk areas remained closed and a large number of security force personnel were deployed there to maintain law and order, officials said. Malik was arrested on Thursday as he tried to...
12:56 PM, Apr 29, 2011
In 'The Last Word', Karan Thapar discusses with a panel of experts how media covered the BJP's 'Ekta Yatra'. ...
10:42 PM, Jan 28, 2011
Jammu: Thirteen activists of BJP and its youth wing Bharatiya Janta Yuva Morcha (BJYM) have been arrested in connection with the attack on cavalcade of Jammu and Kashmir Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather in Jammu. The BJP and BJYM activists were taken into custody from various places in the city, police said, adding they were booked under sections 147, 148 and 353 (unlawful assembly, disruption of movement and attack) of...
05:22 PM, Jan 27, 2011
Jammu: Irked by Jammu and Kashmir government thwarting its flag-hoisting plan, BJP on Wednesday termed as "grand standing" Omar Abdullah's invitation to its leaders to attend the Republic Day function even as seven party activists were arrested when they made a vain bid to unfurl the national flag in Srinagar. Describing as "unfortunate" the detention of senior leaders Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj and Ananth Kumar in Jammu, BJP president Nitin...
02:57 PM, Jan 26, 2011
Kathua: BJP leaders Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley and Ananth Kumar, arrested as a preventive measure to foil the party's bid to hoist the national flag at Lal Chowk in Srinagar on Republic Day, have been released on Wednesday. Following the release, the three leaders have lashed out at the Omar Abdullah government for foiling their Tiranga Yatra to Srinagar. "On Republic Day two BJP leaders have been put behind the...
02:09 PM, Jan 26, 2011
Srinagar: Police on Wednesday arrested seven BJP activists as they made a vain bid to hoist the national flag at Lal Chowk here, which had been turned into a fortress to foil the party's plan. A lone BJP supporter appeared at Regal Chowk, less than 100 yards away from Clock Tower at Lal Chowk, carrying a national flag at 8.30 AM, officials said. Srikant, a resident of Gurgaon in Haryana,...
12:53 PM, Jan 26, 2011
New Delhi: Describing as "unfortunate" the detention of its senior leaders in Jammu, BJP on Wednesday rubbished charges that it was playing politics over hoisting the national flag at Lal Chowk in Srinagar. "Some people say there is politics in hoisting the national flag at Lal Chowk. I don't understand what politics can there be in hoisting the flag... This is not politics but our duty," BJP President Nitin Gadkari...
10:31 AM, Jan 26, 2011
New Delhi: The BJP has hit back at the Prime Minister for calling its plans to hoist the flag at Lal Chowk in Srinagar as divisive. Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley pointed out that while advocacy of sedition by separatists gathered in Delhi is passed off as right to expression, the UPA is trying to stop the BJP workers from peacefully unfurling the national flag in Srinagar. The BJP says...
08:54 PM, Jan 23, 2011
New Delhi: Backing the measures of Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to deal with the march of Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) youth wing to Srinagar, the Congress said on Saturday that the state administration was fully empowered to deal with the situation. "Whosoever from any quarter, irrespective of ideology, religion, or political affiliation, tries to create any ambiance of provocation, tension or antagonism in Jammu and Kashmir is...
12:22 AM, Jan 23, 2011
New Delhi: The Jammu and Kashmir government says it will not allow the BJP to hoist the Tricolour at the Lal Chowk on Republic Day. The decision came just a day after chief minister Omar Abdullah, in an interview to CNN-IBN, questioned BJP's motive behind Ekta Yatra. "Clearly, there are various options with us. The two extremes being one, to allow them to hoist the flag and the other, to...
12:02 AM, Jan 21, 2011
How the Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister plans to deal with the BJP's move to hoist the Tricolour in Srinagar on Jan 25. ...
10:44 PM, Jan 19, 2011
New Delhi: Days ahead of the BJP's plan to hoist the Tricolour on Republic Day at Lal Chowk in Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir Chief minister Omar Abdullah met Home minister P Chidambaram in the capital on Wednesday. Omar Abdullah met Chidambaram and Congress President Sonia Gandhi and raised concerns over BJP's Ekta yatra. He hoped that the BJP would do nothing to precipitate the situation in the state through its...
11:15 AM, Jan 19, 2011
Jammu: As the BJP Youth Morcha goes ahead with flag hoisting plans in Kashmir, the party says they are expecting approximately 50,000 people, a number, which the state security agencies are gearing up to counter. The army says they can step in if required. The BJP flagged off the Ekta Rally from Kolkata on Monday. Less than a week from now this rally will reach Srinagar and hoist the Tricolour...
09:59 AM, Jan 18, 2011
Srinagar: In the run up to Republic Day, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah renewed his appeal to the BJP of not hoisting the Tricolour in Srinagar. Meanwhile, BJP has started its 'ekta yatra' and has said that it is going to hoist a flag at Lal Chowk on January 26. The Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister is apprehensive that it will disturb peace in the valley. When asked...
10:48 AM, Jan 14, 2011
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