Peerzada Ashiq

1 week ago | thehindu.com | Peerzada Ashiq

Scores of parents with wards studying in Iran on Sunday (June 15, 2025) urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar to initiate measures to evacuate “traumatised and panicked” students following aerial raids by Israel in major cities of Iran in the past three days. Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said he was in touch with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and mulling evacuation.

1 week ago | thehindu.com | Peerzada Ashiq

The offer of three government jobs to the family of the local killed in the Pahalgam terror attack, Syed Adil Hussain Shah, resulted in tension between the Raj Bhavan and the Chief Minister’s Office on Sunday (June 15, 2025). The two sides bickered after J&K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha visited the victim’s family on Saturday (June 14, 2025) at his native village in Hapatnar, Anantnag, and handed over the appointment letter to his wife, Gulnaz Akhter, “on compassionate grounds”.

2 weeks ago | thehindu.com | Peerzada Ashiq

Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Saturday (June 14, 2025) announced a phased reopening of 48 destinations closed in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack that left 26 civilians dead on April 22, 2025. “Following a detailed security assessment, we are now in a position to welcome visitors back, gradually and responsibly. The decision to restrict access to several tourist locations was purely precautionary,” Mr. Sinha said.

2 weeks ago | thehindu.com | Peerzada Ashiq

The BJP’s move to seek the intervention of Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant-Governor, to declare Urdu non-mandatory for Naib Tehsildar posts in the Union Territory, has sparked a political storm. The ruling National Conference and Peoples Democratic Party have opposed any such decision. “We believe that the place of Urdu in our revenue, judicial, and administrative system is rooted in history, not in any political or sectarian agenda.

2 weeks ago | thehindu.com | Peerzada Ashiq

The summer sun shines pleasantly down on the Nowgam railway station in Srinagar, located at an altitude of 1,730 metres above sea level, and just nine kilometres from Lal Chowk, the city centre. It’s around 7 a.m. on June 10. India’s railway stations usually smell of a heavy mix of diesel and fried food. Nowgam doesn’t; it smells of timber instead.