Sopore Gunfight: Two militants killed, bodies recovered

Sopore Gunfight: Two militants killed, bodies recovered

Srinagar :Two militants were killed in a gunfight with the government forces in Teliyan Arampora area of Sopore in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Thursday. An army officer said that two militants were killed in the operation at Taliyan Mohalla area of Arampora, Sopore. The searches are on to retrieve the bodies from the site, […]

Two militants killed in Handwara gunfight: police

Two militants killed in Handwara gunfight:  police

Baramulla: Two unidentified militants were killed today in a pre-dawn encounter with government forces in a village in Handwara of the frontier Kupwara district. Unidentified militants fired upon a joint team of special operations group (SOG) personnel and army’s 30 RR in Galoora village of Handwara in the wee hours today, a police spokesperson told […]

Heroin Worth Rs 10 Crore Seized In Srinagar

Heroin Worth Rs 10 Crore Seized In Srinagar

SRINAGAR — The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has seized heroin worth Rs 10 crore, which was suspected to have been smuggled in from Pakistan, from a residential area here, official said Tuesday. On the basis of specific intelligence, the DRI officers raided the residential area in Srinagar in the wee hours of Sunday and […]

Nawaz Sharif’s wife passes away in London

Nawaz Sharif’s wife passes away in London

Begum Kulsoom, the wife of Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, died on Tuesday in London after a prolonged illness, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz president Shehbaz Sharif said. Kulsoom, who was under treatment at London’s Harley Street Clinic since June 2014, was placed on life support earlier Tuesday as her health deteriorated, Geo TV reported. […]

BJP leadership adopting double standard on Ram temple issue: Pravin Togadia

BJP leadership adopting double standard on Ram temple issue: Pravin Togadia

Accusing the BJP leadership of adopting double standard on the Ram temple issue, Antarrashtriya Hindu Parishad (AHP) president Pravin Togadia said Tuesday that the party doesn’t have any moral right to remain in power if it cannot fulfil its promise of constructing the temple in Ayodhya. Togadia, who launched AHP after his ouster from the […]

Suicide attack in Afghanistan kills 22 near Pakistan border crossing

Suicide attack in Afghanistan kills 22 near Pakistan border crossing

KABUL – A suicide bomber in Afghanistan killed at least 22 people in an attack on a protest gathering on the highway between the eastern city of Jalalabad and the main border crossing into neighbouring Pakistan, officials in Nangarhar province said on Tuesday. Another 23 people were wounded in the attack, the provincial governor’s spokesman […]

Naxals kill two men in C’garh for being ‘police informers’

Naxals kill two men in C’garh for being ‘police informers’

Raipur: Two villagers were allegedly kidnapped and hacked to death by naxals in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh on the suspicion of being police informers, an official said Tuesday. The bodies of Hunga Karma and Bheema Muchaki, both aged around 35 years, were found lying in a pool of blood near Bacheli railway station Monday night, […]

Taliban preparing for new peace talks with the United States

Taliban preparing for new peace talks with the United States

The Taliban are preparing to send a delegation for talks with US officials about ending the conflict in Afghanistan and the meeting could address a possible prisoner swap, two officials involved with the process said on Tuesday. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told TOLO News that Taliban leaders were meeting to discuss […]