All the four are residents of Jammu. The J&K government recently issued many licences for opening of wine shops in the Valley, despite opposition from religious parties and some locals.
On Sunday morning, PAGD leaders led by its president Farooq Abdullah called on Lt Governor Sinha at Raj Bhawan in Srinagar.
The Jammu and Kashmir lieutenant governor also says that the Union Territory administration will transfer Kashmiri Pandit employees to safer places in a week’s time, in the wake of the militant attacks on them in Kashmir.
Shoib Ahmad Ganie (22), a resident of Turkwangam village, Shopian, was killed in crossfire during the "chance encounter", police said.
This is the first time the termination of a government employee allegedly for being a “threat to the security of the state” has met with protests.
In Jammu, where Bhat's body was taken for cremation, angry mourners confronted BJP leaders and accused them of making Kashmiri Pandits “sacrificial goats’’ by sending them to Kashmir in the name of the PM’s employment package.
This is the second killing in the Valley in the last 24 hours. A Kashmiri Pandit employee at the Tehsil office at Chadoora, Budgam was killed within his office premises on Thursday evening.
Lt Governor Manoj Sinha ordered Dr Pandit's dismissal “with immediate effect” on Friday, declaring him a “threat to the security of the state”.
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As protestors put up a blockade on the Srinagar-Budgam highway, the police resorted to using tear gas cannisters to disperse them.
This is the third attack on a member of a minority community in the Valley this year.
The chargesheet said that the accused were hand in glove with some educational consultancies for arranging the admission of J&K residents in MBBS and other professional courses in various colleges and universities of Pakistan.
Sanna Irshad Mattoo is among the four Reuters photojournalists who have won the prestigious award -- Adnan Abidi, Amit Dave and the late Danish Sidiqqui being the other three -- for their coverage of the devastating second wave of Covid-19 in India.
While a soldier and another civilian are recuperating at the hospital, the operation has been called off after militants managed to escape from the site of the gunfight.
The victim has been identified as Ghulam Hassan who was riding a scooter on the Ali Jan Road in civilian clothes when the incident happened on Saturday morning, said police sources.
They termed the killing of one of the most wanted militant commanders “on the [Amarnath] yatra route” as a major success. “Ashraf Molvi along with two other terrorists killed.
The slain militant commander, Mohammad Ashraf Khan, was one of the oldest surviving militants in the Valley. The police termed the killing of the one of the most wanted militant commanders “on the (Amarnath) yatra route” as a major success.
“We outrightly reject it,” said PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti. She said the Delimitation Commission had “overlooked the basis of population and acted as per their wish... We don’t trust it. Its recommendations are a link to abrogation of Article 370 — how to disempower people of J&K.”
On Monday evening, militants detonated an IED at Larmoo village of Tral when a joint party of CRPF and police were moving in two bullet-proof vehicles.
Jumat-ul-Vida prayers are traditionally the largest congregation of the year at the grand mosque and over 1 lakh worshippers attend
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It was informed that the project will generate 1,975.54 million units of electricity in a 90 per cent dependable year. It will be commissioned in 54 months.
Against a demand of 1,700 MW, the Valley is receiving only about 900 MW (from all sources), leaving people so perturbed with the frequent and prolonged unscheduled power cuts that they are out on the street protesting.
The encounter comes on a day in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the Union Territory, and inaugurated and laid the foundation stones of a slew of projects for the Union Territory.
While there are no official figures, the number of students who have completed their MBBS degree from Pakistan is believed to be over 400, while a few hundred have studied other courses like engineering.





