Srinagar: Government forces on Wednesday claimed to have arrested a Lashkar Toiba militant in Hajin area of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district. Officials said that a joint team of army’s 13RR and police in a joint operation arrested a LeT militant identified as Jehangir@Aqib @Jana resident of Kralgund, Handwara. He had joined the LeT outfit on […]
Srinagar : A militant body has been found at encounter during searches in Kamrazipora area of Pulwama district on Wednesday, official sources said. Earlier, One army solidier was killed and another injured during the brief gunfight with militants. The injured solidier has been evacuated to 92 Base hospital for further treatment. Till this report was […]
New Delhi:India’s COVID-19 tally went past 23 lakh on Wednesday, with a single day increase of 60,963 cases, while the recoveries surged to16,39,599, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The total coronavirus cases in the country have mounted to 23,29,638, while the death toll climbed to 46,091with 834 new fatalities being reported in a […]
Pulwama: A soldier was killed in a gunfight with militants in Kamrazipora area of Pulwama during wee hours of Wednesday. An official said that one among two soldiers who received bullet injuries during exchange of fire at around 2:30 am at Kamrazipora succumbed to his injuries while the other is stable. The slain soldier has […]
New Delhi: Officials of the Union Ministry of Communications, who briefed members of a Parliamentary panel Tuesday on suspension of telecom services/internet and its impact, remained non-committal about a timeline for restoration of 4G internet services in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). They added that a final call on it will be taken by the home […]
We will (hopefully) have GDP statistics for the April-June quarter by the end of this month. There is complete unanimity that the June quarter will see an economic contraction vis-a-vis last year. India was under a strict lockdown for most of this period (two of the three months, with lockdowns continuing for longer in some […]
On July 16, Imtiyaz Ahmad and his two cousins, who had arrived from Rajouri to find work as labourers in the Valley, rented a room in Chowgam village of Shopian. Two days later, they had lost touch with their families back home. On Monday, the families claimed the three “unidentified” men killed in an “encounter” […]
Srinagar/New Delhi: Shah Faesal, the first resident of Jammu and Kashmir who topped the civil services exam in 2009, on Tuesday said his decision to join politics last year had done more harm than benefit as his “innocuous act” of dissent was seen as an “act of treason”. A day after announcing that he was […]
Jammu and Kashmir Police said on Tuesday that it would look into claims of three families from Rajouri about an encounter Shopian “encounter” last month after some families lodged a written complaint saying that three of their members involved in labour work were missing from the same area. The development comes on a day when […]
Even as India recorded 53,601 new infections and 871 deaths in the last 24 hours, the health ministry in its latest briefing on Tuesday said that India’s recovery rate rose to 69.8 per cent due to effective and prompt clinical management of COVID-19 cases. It also said that the deaths as a proportion of known […]