SRINAGAR — A landslide blocked the strategic Jammu-Srinagar National Highway in Ramban district on Monday as the high-altitude areas experienced fresh snowfall, while the plains were lashed by rains, officials said. The landslide struck the 270-km highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with the rest of the country, at Kharpora near Banihal around 1.40 pm, […]
Srinagar : Police have directed the people, possessing licensed guns in central Kashmir district of Ganderbal, to deposit their weapons in nearby police stations before March 15. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Ganderbal Khalil Ahmad Poswal in an order issued on Monday said that as per the guidelines/instructions of Election Commission (EC), all licensed weapon […]
(Agencies) Islamabad : Taliban founder Mullah Omar lived within walking distance of US bases in Afghanistan for years, according to a new book that highlights embarrassing failures of American intelligence. Washington believed the one-eyed, fugitive leader had fled to Pakistan, but the new biography says Omar was in fact living just three miles from a […]
Srinagar : A 22-year-old shopkeeper was killed after hit by a shooting stone amid heavy rainfall in Gursai area of Mendhar in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday. Reports said that the shopkeeper Umar Farooq (22) son of Noor Hussain of Sanjoite, Gursaie was hit by the shooting stone when he was busy […]
Srinagar : The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Monday said Election Commission should announce the schedule for the assembly election simultaneously with Lok Sabha polls. In a statement issued to KNS, CPI (M) said, “It is perplexing how the security situation in Jammu & Kashmir is good for the conduct of […]
Jammu: A six-year-old boy drowned in a water tank inside the premises of a government school in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district, police said on Monday. Aahil Mirza, a resident of Ujjan village, accidentally fell into the water tank while playing on Sunday evening, they said. His body was recovered from the underground tank and handed […]
Srinagar : Police on Monday said the local militant Mudasir Ahmad Khan, resident of Midoora Tral, was one of the “key conspirators’ behind the 14 February suicide attack that had left 40 paramilitary CRPF men dead. “The investigation so far conducted revealed that Mudasir was one of the key conspirators of the recent Pulwama NH […]
Srinagar : Five shops were damaged in a massive fire incident in Uri market in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Monday. An official said that a massive fire broke out from a shop at around 4.30 am on Monday and it spread quickly to the adjoining shops and damaged property worth lacs. He said the […]
Srinagar : A man was held with grenades at an army recruitment rally in Surankote in Poonch district on Monday. The incident comes days after a grenade blast at a bus stand in Jammu killed two people and injured several others. Around 10: 40 am, Rajinder Singh son of Krishnan Singh resident of Kala Kote […]
Srinagar: The National Investigation Agency on Saturday summoned Hurriyat Conference (M) chairperson Mirwaiz Umar Farooq to its headquarters in New Delhi. Mirwaiz, sources said, has bee asked to present himself before the investigators at its New Delhi head office. Pertinently, on 26 Feb last month, the NIA raided Mirwaiz’s residence at Nigeen and searched the premises […]