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Only four Officers from Kashmir are heads of departments in ...

( Jammu and Kashmir )

Srinagar | WTNS | September 12:In a matter of grave concern, the representation of Kashmiri officers in key decision-making process has come down to all times low as only four of them are administrative secretaries in the current bureaucratic set-up of J&K Union Territory. Details available with KNO, reveal that four officers from Kashmir Valley -two IAS and two KAS officers- are presently administrative heads of government departments. Of them, two are heading significant departments while remaining...

COVID-19:J&K tally crosses 50,000 mark...

( Jammu and Kashmir )

Srinagar | WTNS | September 11:Jammu and Kashmir on Friday reported yet another spike of 1,578 cases of Covid-19 pandemic including 73 travelers taking the total number of positive cases to 50,712 in the Union Territory. Of the total 59,712 cases, 35,037 are from Kashmir and 15,675 from Jammu division. Officials told KNO, among 1,578 new cases, 770 belong to Kashmir division while as 808 are from Jammu division, adding that the total number of positive cases in Kashmir division have reached to 35,037...

India and China Called for quick disengagement of troops ove...

( India )

New Delhi | WTNS | September 11:India and China issued a joint statement over an ongoing border dispute in the Himalayas, calling for dialogue and disengagement to ease tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals. It came after foreign ministers from both countries met at the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meeting in Moscow on Thursday. Discussions were “frank” and “constructive” between India’s Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, according...

Parliament has no power to scrap JK Special Status & Ar...

( India )

New Delhi | WTNS | September 11:Prominent Indian Politician and Constitutional Lawyer in the Supreme Court of India Prof.Bhim Singh has questioned the Modi government on the issue of Article 370 which still persists as Article 370 in the Indian Constitution. The Article is very essential to save constitutional integration of Jammu and Kashmir with the rest of the country as the Ruler of Jammu and Kashmir, Maharaja Hari Singh, had acceded the entire State of J&K to the Union of India. In a Statement...

One of its first kind ‘Dial a Doctor’ service launched i...

( Jammu and Kashmir )

Srinagar | WTNS | September 10:One of its first kind of initiative taken by Ehsaas International & Dard Welfare Society in association with Kashmir Health Care Support Group (A Kashmiri Doctors Group) with  quality based health- care consultative service for general public at their doorsteps. Under the initiative “Dial a Doctor Program” more than 300 doctors across the globe and from different specialties/ sub-specialties provide 24/7, voluntary health services to the people of J&K. While...

Disrespecting Holy Prophet(S) by Charlie Hebdo `Zionist anti...

( Iran )

Tehran | WTNS | September 09: Supreme Leader of Islamic Republic of Iran Grand Ayatollah Imam Syed Ali Khamenei said that insulting the luminous and holy personality of the Great Messenger  Hazrat Muhammad (Pbuh) committed by a French weekly is unforgivable sin and a part of Zionist anti Islamic policies. In the Name of Him, the Exalted One The following is the full text of a statement issued on September 8, 2020, by Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, in response to...

Imam Hussain A.S did what no other would do!...

By Sahil Abbas

( Jammu and Kashmir )

Imam Hussain (‘a) was one of two sons of Imam Ali a.s and Fatima Zehra s.a, the daughter of the holy Prophet (Pbuh). The one whose martyrdom, grief, pain, sorrows and children’s captivity were all only for Almighty Allah will never fade out of the memories. Instead, by the pace of time and age his love, fascination, and charm will grow in the hearts of people. By Sahil Abbas “It is Hussain’s a.s sacrifice that has kept Islam alive or else in this world there would...

Karbala-The Message of Humanity!...

By Darakshan Gulzar

( Jammu and Kashmir )

The message of Karbala is vivid and clear. The battle of Karbala was not meant to grab a patch of land, rather it was intended to secure and uphold core Human Values. It was a battle between good and evil, right and wrong and justice and oppression. By Darakshan Gulzar The message of Karbala is vivid and clear. The battle of Karbala was not meant to grab a patch of land, rather it was intended to secure and uphold core Human Values. It was a battle between good and evil, right and...

Kashmir:Police arrests 06 notorious drug peddlers;Psychotrop...

( Jammu and Kashmir )

Srinagar | WTNS | September 05: Continuing its efforts to eradicate drug menace from the society, J&K Police have arrested 05 notorious drug peddlers in Kulgam besides, arrested another drug peddler in Srinagar. Huge quantity of banned drugs has been recovered from their possession. In a Statement to Wilayat Times, On a specific information regarding drug peddling at Drien Qazigund, Police party led by SHO Qazigund under the supervision of SDPO Qazigund raided a Dhaba and arrested 5 notorious...

Saudi Arabia arrests famous clerics in new Crackdown...

( Saudi Arabia )

Riyadh | WTNS | September 5:Saudi authorities recently launched a new arrest campaign, detaining a famous religious figure, a Quran reciter, a university professor and many others, according to the Prisoners of Conscience account on Twitter, which documents human rights abuses in the Gulf kingdom. Middle East Eye reports, In August, authorities arrested well-known academic Dr Abdullah Basfar, an associate professor at the department of Sharia and Islamic studies at King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah,...