Srinagar: Three militants were killed in an ongoing encounter along the Line of Control (LoC) in Keran sector of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Thursday. Official sources said that soldiers of 3 JAK Rifles manning the fence at Balbir post near Datgali in Keran intercepted a group of militants at around 10:40 am today which […]
An unidentified gunman shot dead five people, including his wife, and later committed suicide in the US state of California, authorities said. The killings took place in two different places in Bakersfield city on Wednesday night and Sheriff Donny Youngblood of the Kern County said the incident was not a random mass shooting, reports Efe […]
JAMMU — Two militants were killed and eight forces personnel, including a DSP, injured Thursday in an encounter in Jhajjar-Kotli forest belt in Jammu and Reasi district, police said. Government forces, during a cordon and search operation, zeroed in on a location near a house in the Kakriyal area, and surrounded the militants, officials said. […]
Srinagar :Two militants were killed in a gunfight with the government forces in Teliyan Arampora area of Sopore in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Thursday. An army officer said that two militants were killed in the operation at Taliyan Mohalla area of Arampora, Sopore. The searches are on to retrieve the bodies from the site, […]
Baramulla: Two unidentified militants were killed today in a pre-dawn encounter with government forces in a village in Handwara of the frontier Kupwara district. Unidentified militants fired upon a joint team of special operations group (SOG) personnel and army’s 30 RR in Galoora village of Handwara in the wee hours today, a police spokesperson told […]
SRINAGAR — The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has seized heroin worth Rs 10 crore, which was suspected to have been smuggled in from Pakistan, from a residential area here, official said Tuesday. On the basis of specific intelligence, the DRI officers raided the residential area in Srinagar in the wee hours of Sunday and […]
Begum Kulsoom, the wife of Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, died on Tuesday in London after a prolonged illness, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz president Shehbaz Sharif said. Kulsoom, who was under treatment at London’s Harley Street Clinic since June 2014, was placed on life support earlier Tuesday as her health deteriorated, Geo TV reported. […]
Accusing the BJP leadership of adopting double standard on the Ram temple issue, Antarrashtriya Hindu Parishad (AHP) president Pravin Togadia said Tuesday that the party doesn’t have any moral right to remain in power if it cannot fulfil its promise of constructing the temple in Ayodhya. Togadia, who launched AHP after his ouster from the […]
Jammu: BJP Mahila Morcha chief Vijaya Rahatkar said Tuesday her party supports women empowerment and it would try to give them “more than” the 33 per cent reservation currently allowed at the panchayat level in Jammu and Kashmir. Rahatkar said the BJP is the only party in India which is giving women their “due share”. […]
Srinagar : A 35-year-old non-local painter who was admitted in a Srinagar hospital with his throat-slit died on Tuesday afternoon. A police officer told the news agency that some locals found the painter lying in a pool of blood with his throat-slit inside a rented room at Arampora area of Sopore. The painter identified as […]