Hasnain Masoodi is NC’s Anantnag Parliamentary constituency candidate

Hasnain Masoodi is NC’s Anantnag Parliamentary constituency candidate

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir National conference has decided to field Hasnain Masoodi from Anantnag parliamentary constituency in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. NC insiders said that the name of Masoodi was finalised in a meeting at the party headquarters Nawa- e -Subha, Srinagar. Yesterday, the party said in a statement that the parliamentary board decided to […]

School teacher, arrested in militancy case, dies in custody

School teacher, arrested in militancy case, dies in custody

Srinagar: A school teacher, who was arrested in connection with a militancy case, has died in a police custody here, prompting the department to request for a magisterial inquiry, officials said on Tuesday. Rizwan Pandit, 28, a resident of Awantipora in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district, died during the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday, […]

Heavy firing on LoC in Jammu and Kashmir

Heavy firing on LoC in Jammu and Kashmir

Agencies Jammu : Heavy firing exchanges took place between Indian and Pakistani troopers on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir, a defence official said on Tuesday. “The Pakistani troops resorted to unprovoked ceasefire violation in Rajouri’s Sunderbani sector and Jammu’s Akhnoor sector on Monday night,” Defence Ministry spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Devender Anand […]

Missing Sopore boy traced in Jammu: Police

Missing Sopore boy traced in Jammu: Police

(Agencies) Srinagar :   Police on Monday said that a missing Sopore boy was located in Jammu city this afternoon, and efforts were on to bring him back home. Danish Bashir Khan (13), according to his family members, went missing yesterday morning after he left his home in Hatlangoo area of Sopore. The family had lodged […]

New Zealand terrorist visited Israel in 2016

New Zealand terrorist visited Israel in 2016

AFP Jerusalem :     The Australian terrorist accused of carrying out a massacre at two mosques in New Zealand briefly visited Israel in 2016, Israeli officials said Monday. Brenton Tarrant arrived on a three-month tourist visa and stayed in Israel for nine days in October 2016, immigration authority spokeswoman Sabine Haddad said. She was […]

Bureaucrats ‘browbeaten, threatened’ for backing early JK Assembly polls: Omar

Bureaucrats ‘browbeaten, threatened’ for backing early JK Assembly polls: Omar

  (Agencies) Srinagar :   National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah claimed on Monday that bureaucrats, who backed early Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections, were being “browbeaten and threatened” using performance appraisals against them.   Abdullah has been outspoken against the Election Commission’s decision to not hold assembly elections in the state simultaneously with the upcoming […]

Teenage boy goes missing from Sopore, parents seek help

Teenage boy goes missing from Sopore, parents seek help

Srinagar : The family members of a minor boy who has gone missing from his home in Sopore area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Monday sought the help of public to trace his whereabouts. Danish Bashir Khan (13), son of Bashir Ahmad of Hathlangoo area of Sopore tehsil went missing from his home on […]