Srinagar : The counter insurgent forces on Monday launched a cordon and search operation (CASO) in Bankoot village in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district. Reports said that a joint team of army, CRPF, and special operations group of Jammu and Kashmir police cordoned off Bankoot village. The search operation in the area was going on, however, […]
Srinagar: An army soldier was injured in Panzgam area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Monday. Reports reaching GNS said that the soldier of 55 RR sustained bullet wound in his foot at Mir Pora area of Chakoora when his service rifle went off accidentally. The injured soldier was immediately taken to army’s near by […]
Srinagar : A 65-year-old tourist died of cardiac arrest at tourist resort Gulmarg in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district Monday morning. A police official said that the tourist, identified as Sajad Din son of Fakur Din, a resident of Babeibagh Indore, Madiya Pradesh was putting up at hotel Pine Spring in Gulmarg. At around 4 am […]
Agencies New Delhi : Union Home Minister Amit Shah, the Prime Minister’s most trusted lieutenant in Modi 2.0, is learnt to be focusing on vital aspects of national security with 16 key bureaucrats to fix the structural crises — the militancy in Kashmir, the NRC, and the situation in Northeast and Maoist-affected areas. With the […]
Agencies Jammu: A 10-day-old baby, injured in heavy shelling by Pakistani troops along the Line of Control (LoC), died at a hospital on Monday in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. The infant, his mother Fatima Jan (35) and another civilian Mohammad Arif (40) were injured when mortar shells fired by Pakistan hit […]
Srinagar : Jammu and Kashmir Police on Monday claimed to have arrested a drug peddler at a checkpoint in central Kashmir’s Budgam district and seized contraband substance from his possession. A police spokesman in a statement said that officers at a checkpoint established at Chahr-e-Sharif arrested a drug peddler identified as Mohammad Ayoub Mir son […]
Srinagar : Congress on Saturday held an extraordinary meeting of senior party leaders of various assembly segments of Kashmir in Srinagar to deliberate over the organizational affairs and activities in Kashmir. Senior Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Gulam Nabi Azad presided over the meeting. Apart from other things, Azad reviewed the […]
Government forces on Saturday conducted searches after militants triggered an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast in south Kashmir district of Pulwama in the wee hours, official sources said. They said an IED blast took place on Arihal-Pulwama road in the wee hours, which was heard in the entire area. However, no one was injured and […]
The Jammu-Srinagar highway was closed for vehicular traffic due to shooting stones and mudslides at several places in Ramban district on Saturday. An official said that shooting stones were hampering the restoration work. The Amarnath yatris, who were returning from Kashmir, were also stranded between Magarkote and Digdool areas of the highway.
Tral : Over hundred sheep and goats were killed in a cloudburst at Nargistan pastures of South Kashmir’s Tral during the intervening night. Sources in sheep husbandry department said that during the intervening night of Friday, heavy rainfall resulted into the cloudburst in Bradi Angan area of Upper Nargistan. They said, “more than 100 sheep […]