Agencies Lahore: At least nine persons, including five police personnel, were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a major Sufi shrine in Pakistan’s Lahore on Wednesday as the country marks the fasting month of Ramzan, officials said. The blast took place around 8:45 am (local time) outside Gate number 2 of the […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday said that the three boys of south Kashmir’s Shopian district who were detained from a village near the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district have been released. Police has identified the three boys as Danish Gulzar (15) son of Gulzar Ahmed of Nully, Shopian; Shaid Ahmed Telli […]
Srinagar : Government forces on Wednesday launched a cordon and search operation in Gohan village in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Reports said that a joint team of army’s 46 RR, SOG of Jammu Kashmir Police and 53 BN of CRPF cordoned off the village. They said the CASO was launched in the village following inputs […]
SRINAGAR: The Government has been reviewing the restrictions imposed earlier this month on civilian movement on the National Highway (NH-44) connecting Jammu to Srinagar with a view to balancing the security needs of Forces’ Convoys with the need for minimizing public inconvenience. These restrictions became necessary following the large movement of security forces on an […]
Srinagar : Asserting that less participation of people in the Lok Sabha election warrants introspection from political leadership, senior CPI(M) leader Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami alleged that indiscriminate arrests of youths across the valley, particularly in south Kashmir, in the recent times will erode people’s trust in the government further. “As the response of people in […]
Highway ban has been bleeding Kashmir Valley with authorities only saying that they will ease the ban. The restrictions on the movement of vehicles have created lot of problems in Kashmir including price rise. Recently, Supreme Court disposed of a plea challenging the Jammu and Kashmir government’s order restricting civilian traffic for a day in […]
Srinagar : Four persons were injured, one of them seriously when a vehicle met with an accident in Bufliaz area of Surankote in Poonch district on Tuesday. A police official said that the Tata Mobile vehicle (JK-02AD-6286) skidded off the road and rolled down the hill at Donar Bufliaz in Surankote today morning. The mishap […]
Srinagar : People on Tuesday protested against authorities for imposing toll tax near Sangam on Srinagar-Jammu highway in south Kashmir. A number of people told GNS that the toll plaza was made operational from today and every vehicle passing through it was charged toll of Rupees 85 for every light motor vehicle. “This is outrages […]
Srinagar : National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed a chargesheet against two Kashmiri men in connection with grenade attacks at a police station in Maqsudan, Jalandhar last year. In the four attacks that took place on September 14, 2018, one police personnel had sustained splinter injuries, said the NIA spokesman in a statement. The NIA had […]
Srinagar : The Jammu and Kashmir unit of the BJP on Tuesday staged a protest here in Lalchowk against the recent killing of its senior leader Gul Mohammad Mir and sought adequate security to political workers facing threat. Led by party’s state General Secretary Ashok Koul, scores of BJP leaders and workers assembled at Press […]