CRPF officer wounded in Sangam attack

CRPF officer wounded in Sangam attack

Anantnag, Dec 31: A Sub-Inspector of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was injured on Thursday evening after suspected militants lobbed a UBGL grenade followed by firing on naka party of CRPF in Sangam area of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district. Official sources told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the militants lobbed a grenade at […]

Shopkeeper shot dead in sarai bala Srinagar

Shopkeeper shot dead in sarai bala Srinagar

Srinagar, Dec 31: Unknown gunmen on Thursday evening shot dead a goldsmith in Sarai Bala area of Srinagar, officials said. Officials told the news agency-KNO that a goldsmith identified as Satpal Nischal, owner of Nischal Jewelers was fired upon by the unknown gunmen at his shop, leaving him in a pool of blood. They said […]

Govt. should remove misgivings about Hokarsar encounter: Altaf Bukhari

Govt. should remove misgivings about Hokarsar encounter: Altaf Bukhari

Apni Party President Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari on Thursday expressed deep concern over the family inputs of three slain youth that have created misgivings about the veracity of Hokersar-Srinagar encounter. In a statement issued to news agency-kashmir news service(KNS), Bukhari demanded that the J&K government should clear the facts about the credentials of the three […]

LoC flares up again, several houses and mosque damaged in north Kashmir

LoC flares up again, several houses and mosque damaged in north Kashmir

Srinagar: Several residential houses and a Mosque were partially damaged as Indo-Pak troops engaged in firing and intense mortar shelling in Dhani, Hajitra areas along the Line of Control (LoC) in Karnah sectors of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district last evening. A local news gathering agency Kashmir News Service (KNS) quoting an unnamed official reported that […]

Yemen airport blasts kill 26 as govt plane arrives

Yemen airport blasts kill 26 as govt plane arrives

ADEN: At least 26 people were killed on Wednesday as explosions rocked Yemen’s Aden airport moments after a new unity government flew in, in what some officials charged was a “cowardly” attack by Houthi rebels. Although all government ministers were reported to be unharmed, more than 50 people were wounded, medical and government sources said […]

NZ’s Kane Williamson overtakes Steve Smith, Virat Kohli to be top Test batsman

NZ’s Kane Williamson overtakes Steve Smith, Virat Kohli to be top Test batsman

New Zealand captain Kane Williamson enters the New Year as the top-ranked Test batsman after leapfrogging Australia’s Steve Smith and India skipper Virat Kohli in the latest official rankings issued on Thursday. Williamson, who returned from paternity leave this month, hit a match-winning century in the opening Test against Pakistan to help New Zealand win […]

Srinagar ‘gunfight’: J&K DGP upholds army’s version, rebuts claims by slain trio’s families

Srinagar ‘gunfight’: J&K DGP upholds army’s version, rebuts claims by slain trio’s families

Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir’s Director General of Police (DGP), Dilbagh Singh Thursday upheld army’s claim that three militants were killed in Wednesday’s gunfight on Srinagar outskirts, but added that police will still investigate the claims by the families of the slain trio over their “innocence”. “I have no reason to dispute what the GoC Kilo […]

Four shops gutted in north Kashmir’s Kupwara

Four shops gutted in north Kashmir’s Kupwara

At least four shops were completely gutted in a fire incident at Wajhama Langate in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Thursday, locals and unnamed officials told a local news agency, Global News Service (GNS). They said that fire broke out in the shop of one Mohammad Sultan Thoker at about 11 am. and engulfed three […]

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