Category: Kashmir

  • Contractual employees stage protest in Srinagar, police use force

    Contractual employees stage protest in Srinagar, police use force

    Police using teargas to disperse protesting Kashmiri government contractual staff as they tried to march towards civil serectariat, in Srinagar on Thursday. Photo: Nissar Ahmad
    Police using teargas to disperse protesting Kashmiri government contractual staff as they tried to march towards civil serectariat, in Srinagar on Thursday. Photo: Nissar Ahmad

    SRINAGAR: Police on Thursday used water cannons and batons to disperse hundreds of Jammu and Kashmir government employees who tried to march towards the Civil Secretariat here to protest in support of their demand for regularisation of their services. (more…)

  • Occupational Hazard- Militarisation and Disaster Vulnerability in Jammu and Kashmir: J&K Coalition of Civil Society

    Guest post by JAMMU AND KASHMIR COALITION OF CIVIL SOCIETY  Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society recently released a report called ‘Occupational Hazard: The Jammu Kashmir Floods of September 2014. The full report is available at jkcss.net. The following is a short executive summary.  The Jammu and Kashmir floods of September 2014, occurred in […]