Agencies Kathua/Jammu : Fifteen suspected drug addicts, mostly belonging to neighbouring Punjab, have been detained by Jammu and Kashmir police, officials said Monday. The youths were nabbed in a series of raids in two villages of Kathua border district in a special drive against drug abuse, they said. Police teams conducted raids in […]
Srinagar : The voter turnout recorded has been 8.42% till 3 PM in Kulgam district — part of the Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency where polls are underway. The voting in the second leg of the three-phased schedule for the Lok Sabha seat would decide the fate of 18 candidates, including former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti. The […]
Srinagar: Four youths were injured when government forces burst teargas shells and pellets on protesting youth in Kujjar village of South Kashmir’s Kulgam district, on Monday. Official source said that people, mostly youth, hit the streets at village Kujjar in Kulgam and tried to disrupt the polling. However, forces and state police personnel deployed in […]
Srinagar : Government forces on Monday launched a Cordon and Search Operation (CASO) in Deyarwani area of Batamaloo in Srinagar. Reports said that a joint team of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Special Operational Group (SOG) of Jammu and Kashmir police personnel cordoned off the Deyarwani area. The houses in the area also being […]
Agencies The United States government has declined to share with India information on the use of F-16 fighter jets by the Pakistan Air Force during a recent dogfight, reported the Indian Express. “Soon after we were informed by the Indian side about Pakistan using F-16 aircraft on February 27, we informed the Indians that we […]
SRINAGAR: Clashes erupt between government forces and youth in Qaimoh area of South Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Monday, where polling is underway for Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency. Reports said that at many places youth have errected barricades on roads to halt the government forces movement. Witnesses said that forces deployed in the area swung into […]
Srinagar : Police on Monday recovered a body of the 32-year-old non-local labourer from a village in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Reports said that some locals spotted the body lying at Adgam today morning and informed the police station concerned accordingly. A police officer told news agency GNS that soon after receiving the information about it, a […]
Srinagar : The Karvan-e-Aman bus, operating between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistan-administered-Kashmir (PaK) resumed on Monday after remaining suspended for last eight weeks, official sources said. The weekly bus with three PaK residents left Srinagar this morning for Kaman post, the last Indian military post on this side of the Line of Control (LoC) […]
Srinagar : A complete shutdown is being observed on Monday in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district where polling polling is being held in the second leg of three-phased schedule for Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency. All shops and business establishments are closed while traffic was off the roads in the district. Earlier, clashes between youth and […]
Srinagar : As the polling for the second phase of the three-phase elections for Anantnag Lok Sabha seat is underway in Kulgam district on Monday, the Noorabad assembly segment reordered the highest turnout till 10:00 am and the overall percentage in the Kulgam district was recorded 2.8% till 10 am. As many as 4509 (5.9%) […]