Srinagar : Defence Minister of India Rajnath Singh visited the Kargil War Memorial and laid a wreath there in Drass area of Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday. He was accompanied by Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh, the Indian Army Chief General Bipin Rawat and the General Officer Commanding in Chief Northern […]
Srinagar : A personal security officer (PSO) of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader and Mehbooba Mufti’s cousin Sajad Mufti was shot dead in Bijbehara area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Friday. Reports said that Farooq Ahmad was standing guard outside a mosque in Baba Mohalla area of Bijbehara when he was shot at by […]
Baramulla : A militant was killed after a gunfight broke out between militants and government forces in Gund Brath area of Sopore in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Wednesday morning. SSP Sopore Javeed Iqbal said that one militant body along with one weapon has been recovered from the encounter site. The SSP further said that […]
Agencies New Delhi : A total of 963 militants have been killed in Jammu and Kashmir by security forces since 2014 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was first voted to power. During the various encounters and anti-combing operations in the state during the period, a total of 413 security personnel were also killed. The […]
Agencies Srinagar: Governor Satya Pal Malik Saturday skipped the official function at the Martyrs’ graveyard here and instead deputed his advisor for paying homage to the people killed in firing by forces of Dogra ruler Maharaja Hari Singh on this day in 1931. Malik’s predecessor N N Vohra had also skipped the official function last […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (NC) patron and three time chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Dr Farooq Abdullah on Thursday said that Kashmir is a political issue which needs a political solution in such a way that no party (India or Pakistan) should feel betrayed. “Kashmir is a dispute between two countries (India […]
Srinagar : National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday attached the house of incarcerated Asiya Andrabi, who heads the separatist group Dukhtaran-e-Millat, in Soura area of Srinagar. According to the NIA order, the said house cannot be transferred, sold or otherwise dealt in any manner with prior permission. The house has been attached under the Unlawful […]
Jammu: The construction of as many as 150 bunkers in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district has been completed and 350 more will be ready soon, officials said Monday. These bunkers have been constructed to provide safety shelters to the people living along the LoC in Poonch from cross-border firing and shelling by Pakistan, they said. District […]
Agencies Jammu: Two Army personnel were injured in cross border firing along the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Saturday. The soldiers, who were manning a forward post in the Romali Dhara area of Nowshera sector, were injured in the firing from across the border on Friday […]
Srinagar : The first batch of Hajj pilgrims left from the Srinagar airport on Thursday for the annual holy pilgrimage of Hajj to Saudi Arabia. On Thursday morning, 304 pilgrims left from Srinagar international airport in two spice jet flights. Besides, accommodation for pilgrims from far-off places, the arrangements for sanitation and eatables were also […]