KANDAHAR: At least 14 Afghan soldiers and police were killed during intense fighting with the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, officials said on Monday, as unabated violence gripped the country despite ongoing peace talks. Taliban fighters launched an overnight assault late on Sunday on several Afghan security force positions in the southern province of Uruzgan, inflicting […]
India’s COVID-19 infection tally crossed 55 lakh on Tuesday, while a record 1,01,468 patients recovered in a day, taking their number to 44,97,867 and pushing the recovery rate to 80.86 per cent, the Union health ministry data showed, reported a local news agency, Kashmir News Observer (KNO). The coronavirus caseload in the country surged to […]
Locals Tuesday spotted a human skull in Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district. Sources told KNT that a decomposed human skull was seen by locals floating in Nallah Sindh near Arch Ganderbal. Locals informed police that visited the spot and took possession of the human skull. Pertinently three weeks ago a headless decomposed human body was recovered […]
The destruction of some explosive material at Barnoi Tulail area of Gurez Division of North Kashmir’s Bandipora district sparked a protest against Army. The blasts created fear psychosis among local population who hit to road and blocked Tulail- Gurez road near Barnoi village and staged protest against Army. Locals told news agency KNT that 19 […]
Court has directed authorities to allow a Sopore detenue to appear in the examination. Advocate Bashir Ahmed Tak had filed an application in the virtual court of Justice Sanjay Dhar seeking a direction for shifting of detenue from District Jail Bhadarwah to District Jail Baramulla or Central Jail Srinagar, so as to enable the detenue […]
Srinagar: Burglars decamped with cash at Kashmir’s revered shrine, Rehbab Sahib in Aali Kadal of Srinagar. This is the second such theft at a shrine in Srinagar in last two weeks. Earlier in the intervening night of September 12-13, burglars decamped with cash from the shrine of Dastgeer sahib in Khanyar area. Official sources told […]
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday morning conducted fresh raids in parts of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district and also in Nowgam area of Srinagar, reported a local news agency, Kashmir News Observer (KNO). Unidentified official sources told the agency that the NIA sleuths, accompanied by paramilitary CRPF and police, raided the house of Ghulam […]
The government forces in Jammu’s Akhnoor sub-division Tuesday recovered arms and ammunition suspected to have been air-dropped in an area inside the Line of Control in the area, reported local news agency, Kashmir News Observer (KNO). Unidentified officials told the agency that joint teams of army and police headed by SDPO Akhnoor Ajay Sharma launched […]
Jammu and Kashmir police today said that one unidentified militant of the Jaish-e-Muhammad outfit has been killed in a gunfight at Nowhal area of Chrar-i-Shareef in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district while as his few associates are active in the area and would be tracked soon. According to a local news agency, Kashmir News Observer (KNO), […]
A militant has been killed in an ongoing gunfight which erupted on Monday evening in Charar-i-Shareef area of Central Kashmir’s Budgam district, reported a local news agency, Global News Service (GNS). Unidentified official sources told the agency that a militant has been killed in an ongoing gunfight, however, the identity of the killed militant couldn’t […]