Police detained some Pakistani women, who had married to former Kashmiri militants, at Srinagar’s Gupkar after they tried to meet the Lieutenant Governor (LG), Manoj Sinha, on Monday morning, reported a local news agency, Kashmir News Trust (KNT). About eleven Pakistani women had gone to the LG House to meet the LG Mr. Sinha, however, […]
The body of a 13-year-old girl who drowned on 16 June this year, was fished out on Monday morning from river Jhelum at Jaffer Pora Marhama area of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district. A local news agency, Kashmir News Observer (KNO) reported that the decomposed body of Nighat Jan, daughter of Ghulam Hassan Dar from Jafarpora […]
Three persons, who are said to have been working as informers for the Army, on Saturday deposed before the Army’s Court of Inquiry, set up to probe the 18 July “gunfight” at Amshipora, Shopian, in which three labourers from Rajouri were killed and declared militants. Top sources in the administration told The Sunday Express that […]
The families of the victims of the Shopian fake encounter got a sigh of relief when police said that the DNA samples of the parents of three young boys from Rajouri districts matched those killed by the army in the encounter. The families have already demanded stern action against the culprits responsible for the killing […]
Srinagar: The ‘Gupkar Declaration’ is local parties’ means to grab power in Jammu and Kashmir, said Altaf Bukhari, a former senior leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the current chief of newly-formed Apni Party. In an interview to ThePrint, Bukhari said politicians in Kashmir are “hoodwinking” the people and “creating a smokescreen” by demanding […]
Anantnag: A youth who was among four persons injured due to an explosion at a gunfight site at Sirhama in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Friday has succumbed to his injuries. The persons were injured after an unexploded device went off at the gunfight site when they were clearing the debris of the house razed […]
Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, Baseer Ahmad Khan will convene a public hearing at Grievance Cell, Church Lane, Sonwar, Srinagar on September 29 (Tuesday) from 10 am onwards. The public deputations and individuals, who wish to bring their grievances and demands into the notice of the government, can meet the Advisor at the said venue. All […]
Two Laskhar-i-Toiba militants were killed and an Army soldier injured on Sunday in a gunfight in Samboora area of Awantipora in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Sunday. Official sources told news agency GNS that two militants have been killed in an ongoing operation. However, the identity of the slain militants is yet to be ascertained. […]
Former Minister Chheirng Dorje today said that they have withdrawn the election boycott call after meeting Home Minister Amit Shah. ” We have withdrawn the boycott call of elections, ” Dorje who along with Venerable Tgiksay Ropochoe and Thupastan Chhewang met Amit Shah yesterday in Delhi told KNS. ” We discussed with him all our […]
Jammu: A major infiltration bid by a group of five heavily-armed terrorists, under cover fire provided by the Pakistani Rangers, was scuttled along the International Border in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir, a spokesman of the Border Security Force (BSF) said on Sunday. All the five terrorists fled back to Pakistan in the face […]