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 […]
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 […]
Agencies Srinagar : Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Kashmir unit on Friday organized the International Day of Yoga at Gindan Park Rajbagh in Srinagar. BJP State General Secretary (org) Ashok Koul was the chief guest while guest of honor was Jammu Mayor Chander Mohan Gupta. Speaking on the occasion, Ashok Koul said that it was not […]
Srinagar : Jammu and Kashmir National Conference on Thursday paid tributes to Mirwaiz Qazi Nisar on his 25th annual martyrdom anniversary. While paying glowing tributes to Mirwaiz Qazi Nisar, party’s additional general secretary Dr Sheikh Mustufa Kamal said, “he always strived for the unity among Muslim Ummah. He shall be remembered for his literary disposition […]
NEW DELHI : President Ram Nath Kovind Thursday said the central government is making all efforts to ensure a safe and peaceful environment for the people of Jammu and Kashmir. In his address to the joint sitting of both houses of Parliament, Kovind said the government is also committed to take all necessary steps for […]