
New Delhi: Hurriyat Conference (G) leader Syed Geelani on Saturday called for a bandh in Kashmir against the two-year jail term handed down to fellow separatist Ghulam Nabi Fai by a US court. Fai was charged with lobbying in the US government to affect American policy on Kashmir. He has also been accused of accepting money from the Pakistani intelligence agency, ISI, for the lobby work. ...

09:41 AM, Apr 07, 2012

Hat Yai: Suspected Muslim insurgents staged the most deadly coordinated attacks in years in Thailand's restive south, killing 14 people and wounding 340 with car bombs that targeted on Saturday shoppers and a high-rise hotel frequented by foreign tourists. A first batch of explosives planted inside a parked pickup truck ripped through an area of restaurants and shops in a busy area of Yala city, a main commercial hub of...

06:49 PM, Mar 31, 2012

Srinagar: Moderate separatist leaders admitted to the US Embassy officials in Delhi that they had entered "quiet dialogue" with the Centre but disengaged following attack on their colleague Fazal Haq Qureshi which was intended as a clear message about "perils" of engagement. "Mirwaiz Omar Farooq, Professor Abdul Ghani Bhat, Bilal Lone and Syed Agha Hassan said the attempted assassination of their moderate APHC colleague Fazal ul Qureshi was intended to...

08:29 AM, Sep 04, 2011
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Every time the Prime Minister visits Jammu and Kashmir, some things are inevitable. For instance, traffic jams or no traffic at all; speculations, expectations and ...

03:44 PM, Mar 09, 2011

Srinagar: The Centre's interlocutors for Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday said they will submit their report to the Government on the Kashmir issue irrespective of whether separatists give their opinion or not. "If we do not get inputs from the separatists, we will go ahead and submit the report (to Centre) nevertheless," head of the three-member interlocutors team Dileep Padgaonkar told reporters at the end of their fifth visit to...

12:48 PM, Feb 26, 2011

Jammu: The three interlocutors for Jammu and Kashmir have for the first time sent formal invitation letters to four separatist leaders, urging them to sit across the table for talks. Dileep Padgaonkar, one of the three interlocutors, was quoted as saying in newspaper 'Greater Kashmir' that invites had been dispatched to the separatists to include their views in the report they will submit to the Central Government. "So far we...

11:52 AM, Feb 11, 2011

New Delhi: In a joint operation by Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir police, a Hawala racket has been busted in Jammu and Kashmir. A close aide of Hurriyat hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Ghulam Mohammed Bhat has been arrested for his alleged involvement in the hawala racket. Two other associates of Bhat have also been arrested. More than Rs 20 lakh have been recovered from Bhat and his associates. ...

06:08 PM, Jan 23, 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: The Jammu & Kashmir police have arrested Masrat Alam who is believed to have spearheaded the stone pelting protests in Kashmir. Alam has been working underground for the past four months and is considered close to hardline leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani. A video released by Massarat Alam last month exhorted people to carry on with the agitation in Kashmir. Alam, who carried a reward of Rs 10 lakh...

09:49 PM, Oct 19, 2010

Srinagar: Asserting that Kashmir was an outstanding issue requiring a political solution, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday said a dialogue process to address the external and internal dimensions needs to be started to resolve the matter. "It (Kashmir) is an outstanding issue which needs to be resolved. It is a political issue and cannot be addressed through development, employment or good governance only," Omar said winding...

03:42 PM, Oct 06, 2010

Srinagar: Hardline Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Monday stuck to his party’s pro-independence stance as a four-member team of leaders, who are part of the all-party delegation in Kashmir, visited him at his residence here. “We don’t want economic package, we want independence,” the 80-year-old leader told the team that included CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury. Geelani neither went to meet the delegation nor sent any memorandum. He insisted...

07:10 PM, Sep 20, 2010

As violence continues unabated, central government employees from outside the state are fleeing the area. ...

08:21 AM, Aug 04, 2010

Nine people have been killed in police firing in last 24 hours as Chidambaram says there are serious disturbances in Kashmir. ...

01:08 PM, Aug 02, 2010

The Centre and the Jammu and Kashmir governments blame the Lashkar elements for the violence in Kashmir. ...

08:55 PM, Jun 30, 2010

CM Omar Abdullah defended his government and blamed anti-national forces for the violence in Kashmir. ...

12:23 AM, Jun 30, 2010