Srinagar : Government forces today claimed to have averted a major tragedy by detecting an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by militants in Nowgam area of the city, police said. The forces detected an IED planted near Nala Kadal in Nowgam area on the busy Parimpora-Panthachowk bypass road today morning, a police official said. A […]
KARGIL : Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama was accorded warm reception here today during which he addressed a gathering urging people to maintain amity, brotherhood, peace and communal harmony. “Basic human nature is compassion and kind-heartedness, and therefore every human has a potential to generate peace, happiness and brotherhood,” Dalai Lama said at Hussaini park […]
SRINAGAR : Governor N.N. Vohra chaired a high-level meeting at Civil Secretariat here to review problems relating to traffic management in the State. He had detailed discussions with the senior officers of Transport Department, Traffic Police, Motor Vehicles Department and R&B Department, among others. The meeting was attended by Advisors to Governor: B.B. Vyas, K. Vijay Kumar, Khurshid Ganai; […]
New Delhi: Government forces have killed 581 militants since 2015 while 69 personnel died in ceasefire violations, Minister of State for Defence Subhash Bhamre told the Lok Sabha today. In 2015, 108 militants were killed by government forces followed by 150 in 2016, 213 in 2017 and 110 in 2018 (up to July 22), Bhamre […]
NEW DELHI: Jammu and Kashmir has been allotted 2,000 additional seats for Haj this year as a “special quota” in line with the new formula of allocation of surplus seats generated by under-utilised quota of states, Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told the Lok Sabha today. In a reply to a written question, he […]
New Delhi: As many as 111 people were killed in 822 incidents of communal violence in India in 2017, Minister Hansraj Gangaram Ahir said today. He told the Rajya Sabha that 86 people were killed in 703 incidents of communal violence in 2016 and 97 people lost their lives in 751 such incidents in 2015. […]
Professor Talat Ahmad has been appointed as the vice chancellor of Kashmir University while Manoj Dhar took over as the vice chancellor of Jammu University on Wednesday. Registrar Jammu University Meenakshi Kilam confirmed that Prof Dhar took over as the VC of the varsity. A source at the Kashmir University confirmed the appointment of Prof […]
Srinagar : Thousands of people on Wednesday participated in the last rites of Lashkar-e-Toiba militant Bilal Ahmad Dar at his native Sofi Mohalla in Khudwani area of south Kashmir’s Kulgam district. An eyewitness said that two rounds of funeral prayers were held for the slain militant in Khudwani village. Thousands of people participated in the prayers, […]
Srinagar : Police on Wednesday issued the following statement about the Anantnaq gunfight saying the joint patrol of security forces launched searches at Lal Chowk area in district Islamabad after it received credible leads about the presence of the militants inside a house. A police spokesperson in a statement said: “As the government forces advanced towards […]
Karachi/Peshawar: At least 34 people were killed today, including 31 in a deadly suicide blast outside a polling station in Pakistan’s Quetta city and 36 others injured as several incidents of violence were reported as the country went to polls. In Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province, a suicide blast targeting a police van killed at least […]