Awantipora: A youth was killed and another person injured in a road mishap in Awantipora area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Monday morning, police said. The deceased was identified by police as 25-year-old Mukhtar Ahmad Hajam, son of Abdul Khaliq Hajam, a resident of Goripora village of Pulwama. As per SHO Awantipora, Mudassir Naseer, […]
Terming the bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories as a humiliation, former J&K Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah has said that he won’t contest assembly elections till the statehood is not restored to J&K. “As for me, I am very clear that while J&K remains a Union Territory I will not be contesting […]
A man died while another suffered grievous injuries in a mishap on Jammu-Srinagar highway in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday morning, police said. An official said that a Srinagar-bound pick-up truck (bearing registration number JK14D 3673) carrying bovines went out of the driver’s control and plunged into a deep gorge near army […]
A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel committed suicide after shooting himself dead with his service riffle in Rambagh area of Srinagar. Talking to news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), CRPF spokesman in Srinagar Pankaj Singh said that a CRPF man posted at Group Centre Rambagh identified as Pintoo Mondal of West Bengal, shot himself dead. […]
Jammu and Kashmir police Sunday recovered all the five bodies of a single family at Ramnagar area of Jammu region. Police said that based on the complaint of one Bhagat Ram R/O Janderari, Ramnagar that his son namely Mohan Lal S/O Bhagat Ram R/O Janderari, Ramnagar along with wife and three children were missing since […]
Jammu and Kashmir police today said that after the killing of a Lashkar-e-Toiba militant in a gunfight at Ranbirgarh, Lawaypora area on Srinagar outskirts, on Saturday, no resident of the summer capital is active in the militant ranks. “After the killing of Lashkar-e-Toiba militant Ishfaq Rashid Khan, no resident of Srinagar district is in militant […]
A cattle grazer sustained injuries in a mysterious explosion on Sunday near Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district, reported a local news agency, Kashmir News Observer (KNO). Unnamed officials told the news agency that the injured man has been identified as Ajay of Sehar Makri village on LoC in Bhawani area of Nowshera Tehsil […]
Jammu and Kashmir police have claimed to have busted a Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) hideout in Zainapora area of South Kashmir’s Shopian district on Sunday. In a statement to the media, the police said that based on specific information regarding the presence of LeT militants in orchards of Dachoo Zainapora, Shopian police along with the army’s 44 […]
Announces 2 new subjects, 03 posts for GDC KISHTWAR, JULY 26: Commissioner/Secretary, Higher Education Department, Talat Parvez Rohella, on the second day of his tour here, inspected various educational institutions here and took stock of the infrastructural and ongoing developmental Works being executed by various agencies in these learning centers. He was accompanied by Deputy […]
SHOPIAN, JULY 26: 55 Kanals of Kahcharai and State land were today evicted from encroachers during an anti-encroachment drive in the tehsil Shopian. A team headed by Tehsildar, Shopian conducted the drive in Palpora, Kaprin and Rai villages of Shopian, during which 55 kanals of Kahcharia and State land were retrieved besides 16 upcoming shops […]