A 22-year-old youth has suffered injury in his left eye due to pellets fired by government forces to disperse protesters amid a gunfight at Rawalpora area in Shopian district of south Kashmir on Sunday. A local militant was killed in an overnight gunfight while a US-made M-4 carbine and 36 Armour piercing rounds were recovered […]
Shopian: A militant has been killed in an encounter between government forces and militants in Rawalpora area in South Kashmir’s Shopian district on Sunday. A senior police officer told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that one unidentified militant has been killed so far while as operation is on in the area. Earlier, on saturday […]
Evokes huge response from tour operators, public CHENNAI, MARCH 13: The Department of Tourism, J&K in collaboration with the Travel Agents Society of Kashmir (TASK) organised a grand promotional evening and road show in Chennai in which more than 160 prominent travel agents including heads of main travel bodies participated. The highlight of the event […]
JAMMU, MARCH 13: Divisional Commissioner Jammu, Sanjeev Verma today reviewed the progress on land acquisition for National Highway 244 Khaleni- Kishtwar- Chatroo and Jammu Akhnoor Road here at a meeting with concerned officers. The meeting was attended by Assistant Commissioner Central, ACR Jammu, besides senior functionaries of NHIDCL and other concerned, while Deputy Commissioner Doda […]
Encounter has started between militants and government forces in Rawalpora area of South Kashmir’s Shopian district on Saturday. Reports reaching GNS that a joint team of Police and Army launched a cordon and search operation in Rawalpora. As the joint team of forces approached towards the suspected spot, the hiding militants fired upon the forces, […]
Thirty travellers were among 99 fresh covid-19 cases reported in Jammu and Kashmir even as three persons succumbed to the virus in the last 24 hours, officials said on Saturday. Among the fresh cases, 24 were from Jammu Division and 75 from Kashmir Valley, taking the total tally to 127535. Among the fresh cases, the […]
Police on Saturday said they had arrested seven overground workers of terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen from Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir. “Shopian Police arrested seven terrorist associates linked with proscribed terrorist outfit HM,” the police said in a tweet. They said incriminating materials were seized from the arrested persons. A case has been registered […]
AHMEDABAD: England’s bowlers did the spadework before opener Jason Roy’s explosive 49 helped secure a comprehensive eight-wicket victory against India in the first Twenty20 International in Ahmedabad on Friday. Electing to field, Eoin Morgan and his men denied India a strong start and eventually restricted them to a below-par 124-7 despite Shreyas Iyer’s breezy 67. […]
A powerful car bomb killed at least eight people and injured 47 in Afghanistan’s western Herat province, officials said on Saturday. The death toll in the explosion, late on Friday, that also destroyed 14 houses is expected to rise because several of the injured were critical, said Rafiq Sherzai, a spokesman for the provincial hospital. […]
Former Union minister Yashwant Sinha,a bitter critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi regime, on Saturday joined Trinamool Congress days ahead of the high- octane West Bengal assembly polls. Sinha, who served in the cabinet of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, had quit the saffron party in 2018 after having serious differences with the party […]