Srinagar : Police authorities booked four drug peddlers under Public Safety Act (PSA) in north Kashmir’s frontier Kupwara district on Friday. A senior police officer told a local news agency that in its ongoing drive against drug menace, four more persons namely Reyaz Ahmad Badan (24) son of Abdul Qayoom, Mudasir Ahmad Piswal, Tanveer Ahmad […]
Srinagar : An encounter has broke out between security forces and militants in keshwan forest area of Kishtwar district. Official sources told KNO that earlier a search operation was jointly launched Army and Kishtwar Police after receiving specific inputs about presence of militants in the area. “As the searches were intensified, the hiding militants opened […]
Recent unfortunate incidents and according to the bankers the bad handling by the investigative agencies has brought a dent in the image of J&K Bank. Former Chairman M.Y. Khan in an interview to the local media said that both government and the police who were investigating the case of J&K Bank have handled it badly […]
New Delhi : The government on Friday introduced the fresh triple talaq bill in the Lok Sabha amid vehement protests by opposition members who claimed that it was violative of the Constitution. The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill 2019 became the first legislation to be tabled in Parliament by the Narendra Modi dispensation in its […]
Washington: The US has barred the commercial airlines of the country from flying over the Iran-controlled airspace amid heightened military activities and political tensions in the region. The warning order from the US Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday came after Iran shot down an American high-altitude surveillance drone that was said to be flying near […]
Srinagar : Husband-wife duo who were abducted by unknown gunmen last evening were injured after shot at by them in Arwani village of Anantnag district in south Kashmir on Friday. Reports reaching GNS said that the unknown gunmen abducted Mudasir Ahmad Makroo and his wife Nusrat Begum last evening in Bijbehara. Today afternoon, while Nusrat suffered […]
Agencies Srinagar : Government forces on Friday apprehended a teenage boy (pillion rider) even as the motorcyclist managed to flee from the spot amid some warning shots at KP road Anantnag in south Kashmir. Reports reaching GNS said that a joint naka party of SOG and CRPF signaled to stop a motorcyclist near K.P Road Anantnag […]
Jammu : The death toll in the house collapse incident in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir has risen to two with one of the six injured persons, an infant, succumbing to injuries, police said on Friday. The newly built concrete double-storey house of one Mohammad Zakir suddenly collapsed at Devlian village in Kalakote area of the border district on Thursday, […]
Srinagar : The family and the relatives of a middle-aged woman from south Kashmir’s Shopain district has sought the general help in tracing the woman missing from last one day. Sources close to the family told Kashmir Life that a lady identified as Shameema Bano, wife of Gulzar Ahmad Rather is missing from her residence at Keegam […]
Srinagar: Authorities on Friday morning disallowed Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani to attend Urdu Book Fair at Kashmir University. Sources said that government forces present outside Geelani’s residence didn’t allow him to step out of his residence. On Thursday, in a statement, Geelani accepted the invitation of Kashmir University students to attend the […]