Srinagar,Four militants and an army commando were killed and two soldiers wounded in a gunfight in Nadigam village of south Kashmir’s Shopian district on Tuesday. Reports said a joint team of army’s 34RR, 23 PARA and SOG Shopian cordoned off Nadigam around 2 AM folowing inputs about the presence of militants in the area. As […]
Srinagar: The Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) on Friday held a protest demonstration in Srinagar against the “human rights violations” in Kashmir. Witnesses said that scores of pro-freedom activists assembled in Maisuma and held a protest demonstration demanding end to human rights violations in Kashmir. The activists also reiterated support for election boycott call of the […]
Srinagar: The Punjab police has said that it spotted Hizb-ul-Mujahideen deserter and Ansar Gazwatul Hind militant Zakir Musa in Amritsar city of the state. Musa who was earlier affiliated with Hizb ul-Mujahideen outfit was spotted in Amritsar along with a few other men after which Dinanagar police station released his posters, Times Now quoted SSP […]
Srinagar : In a significant development , chairman State Human Rights Commission (rtd) Justice Bilal Nazki today issued notices almost all leading private schools of Kashmir asking them to file the detailed compliance report before the commission within two weeks as to what procedure they are following during the admission process and whether poor and […]
Jammu Two militants, who were arrested from Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, were part of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) outfit and had come to the town to ferry weapons to the Kashmir Valley, a senior police officer said on Thursday. Senior Superintendent of Police, Poonch, Rajiv Pandey said a special investigation team (SIT) headed by a […]
Government forces on Thursday launched two major search operations at main town and Sarol area of Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir. Reports said that, following inputs about the presence of some suspects in the area, government forces started conducting searches in Bela colony locality of Rajouri. They said that government forces have also cordoned […]
Afghan officials say the Taliban have killed 30 policemen in a blistering overnight attack in western Farah province. Provincial council member Dadullah Qani said on Thursday that the onslaught on the police outpost in the province’s district of Khaki Safed began late on Wednesday and continued for more than four hours. In Kabul, lawmaker Samiullah […]
Srinagar: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Chander Mohan Gupta has been elected the mayor of Jammu municipal corporation (JMC) on Thursday. Sources said that Gupta polled 45 votes while the opposition candidate Vijay Choudhary Congress polled 30 votes. Gupta was a treasurer in J&K unit of the BJP.
Srinagar: The family of the eight-year-old Kathua rape and murder victim has decided to drop their lawyer Deepika Rajawat as she has barely been available at the court hearings, the victim’s father has said. Those close to the family said he has moved an application in the Pathankot court in Punjab, where the case was […]
Srinagar : A delegation of Jama’at-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir led by its chief Dr Abdul Hamid Fayaz met chairman Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Geelani at his Hyderpora residence and expressed condolences on the death of his son-in-law. Jama’at spokesman in a statement said the delegation met Geelani and expressed condolences on the death of […]