SRINAGAR : Deputy Commissioner Srinagar, Dr Sye Abid Rasheed, Wednesday visited Faqir Gujri here to take a firsthand assessment of damages from cloudburst on Tuesday night there. The DC walked up the entire affected stretch of about 3.5 kilometers taking a thorough assessment of damages to roads, water and power supplies and private property owned by locals there. He directed […]
Srinagar : Government forces today claimed to have averted a major tragedy by detecting an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by militants in Nowgam area of the city, police said. The forces detected an IED planted near Nala Kadal in Nowgam area on the busy Parimpora-Panthachowk bypass road today morning, a police official said. A […]
KARGIL : Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama was accorded warm reception here today during which he addressed a gathering urging people to maintain amity, brotherhood, peace and communal harmony. “Basic human nature is compassion and kind-heartedness, and therefore every human has a potential to generate peace, happiness and brotherhood,” Dalai Lama said at Hussaini park […]
SRINAGAR : Governor N.N. Vohra chaired a high-level meeting at Civil Secretariat here to review problems relating to traffic management in the State. He had detailed discussions with the senior officers of Transport Department, Traffic Police, Motor Vehicles Department and R&B Department, among others. The meeting was attended by Advisors to Governor: B.B. Vyas, K. Vijay Kumar, Khurshid Ganai; […]
New Delhi: Government forces have killed 581 militants since 2015 while 69 personnel died in ceasefire violations, Minister of State for Defence Subhash Bhamre told the Lok Sabha today. In 2015, 108 militants were killed by government forces followed by 150 in 2016, 213 in 2017 and 110 in 2018 (up to July 22), Bhamre […]
NEW DELHI: Jammu and Kashmir has been allotted 2,000 additional seats for Haj this year as a “special quota” in line with the new formula of allocation of surplus seats generated by under-utilised quota of states, Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told the Lok Sabha today. In a reply to a written question, he […]
Professor Talat Ahmad has been appointed as the vice chancellor of Kashmir University while Manoj Dhar took over as the vice chancellor of Jammu University on Wednesday. Registrar Jammu University Meenakshi Kilam confirmed that Prof Dhar took over as the VC of the varsity. A source at the Kashmir University confirmed the appointment of Prof […]
Srinagar : Thousands of people on Wednesday participated in the last rites of Lashkar-e-Toiba militant Bilal Ahmad Dar at his native Sofi Mohalla in Khudwani area of south Kashmir’s Kulgam district. An eyewitness said that two rounds of funeral prayers were held for the slain militant in Khudwani village. Thousands of people participated in the prayers, […]
Srinagar : Police on Wednesday issued the following statement about the Anantnaq gunfight saying the joint patrol of security forces launched searches at Lal Chowk area in district Islamabad after it received credible leads about the presence of the militants inside a house. A police spokesperson in a statement said: “As the government forces advanced towards […]
Suspected militants hurled a grenade at CRPF men guarding the post office in south Kashmir’s Pulwama township on Wednesday afternoon. A police official said that around 1:20 pm suspected militants hurled a grenade at the CRPF post located outside the post office building in Pulwama. However they said that no loss of life or damage […]