Valley Express

Srinagar,A  batch of 4,584 pilgrims left Jammu on Wednesday for the Kashmir Valley to perform the Amarnath Yatra. An official said that 1,972 yatris left Bhagwati Nagar Yatri Niwas for Baltal while 2,612 for Pahalgam base camp. He said that so far, 16 pilgrims have died during the Yatra due ...

Srinagar, Congress leader and grandson of last Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir Vikramaditya Singh has landed in trouble over his tweets describing July 13, 1931 martyrs as “rapists, criminals and looters”. Kishtwar Chief Judicial Magistrate Sudhir Khajuria has ordered SHO Kishtwar to investigate whether it makes out to be a ...

Srinagar,A militant was killed in a gunfight by counter insurgent forces in Gund Brath area of Sopore in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Wednesday morning. An official said that one militant body along with one weapon has been recovered from the encounter site. He said that searches at encounter site ...

According to Jabir’s dossier with Indian security agencies, which has been reviewed by Hindustan Times, he is the only one of Dawood’s associates who is a trustee in the Karachi-based Islam Baba Trust, where Ibrahim, his wife, his son and two sons-in-law are trustees. Shishir Gupta and PrasunSonwalkar  New Delhi ...

Srinagar,Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Chairman Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai has congratulated Kashmir press club over conducting successful elections and extended his best wishes to the newly elected Press Club members and hoped that the newly elected body will become a voice of Kashmiris and take up grim issues related to people and society in ...

Srinagar,Farooq Khan, the newly appointed Advisor to Governor Jammu and Kashmir, met Governor Satya Pal Malik at the Raj Bhavan in Srinagar on Tuesday.Governor and Khan discussed wide-ranging issues relating to the developmental scenario and security situation in the State. Governor congratulated Khan for his new appointment and wished him ...

Srinagar, The Inter College Table Tennis Tournament (women) concluded here at Directorate of Physical Education and Sports University of Kashmir in which 22 teams from different colleges participated. The final match was played between GDC Kargil and Women’s College MA road. In a closely contested match, Women’s College MA road ...

Srinagar, The guest speakers at JKYF’s two-day state-level volunteers’ workshop at BAITUL HILAL, Chawalgam in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district laid emphasis on basic understanding of issues and challenges confronting underprivileged, poor, resourceless and disadvantaged sections of people. The speakers described humility, sincerity, selflessness, character, missionary zeal and zest as inalienable ...

Srinagar, Three more Amarnath Yatra pilgrims have died due to natural causes while performing the pilgrimage to the Himalayan cave shrine, taking the total toll to six, authorities said on Monday. Quoting Police sources newsagency IANS said Sunder Devi, 63, of Rajasthan died of cardiac arrest at the Baltal base camp, while ...

Srinagar, Department of Geography & Regional Development, University of Kashmir (KU) organised a week-long Capacity Building Workshop on ‘Safer Schools’ which started here at KU on Monday. The workshop has been organised in collaboration with Jhelum & Tawi Flood Recovery Project (JTFRP), Government of Jammu & Kashmir and Institute of ...