Srinagar: Government forces have arrested two persons in nocturnal raids during the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday at Saidpora-Bala village of Shopian in Southern Kashmir. Reports said that the duo has been identified as Muhammad Irfan Naikoo son of Farooq Ahmad Naikoo and Muhammed Shafi Naikoo son Muhammed Mansoor Naikoo. Local sources said that […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Thursday said that the minor boy who was murdered in Ganderbal was a case of “revenge killing”. Police said that the father of the boy had rejected killer’s proposal to marry his daughter. On September 17, the minor boy Faisal Misgar of Busarbugh Alestang had gone missing from […]
Srinagar: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has written to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi seeking resumption of dialogue between the two countries, Times of India reported. More specifically, and significantly, Khan has sought a meeting between Sushma Swaraj and Shah Mehmood Qureshi, the Indian and Pakistan foreign minister respectively, on the sidelines of UNGA in New York later this month. Khan’s letter was […]
Srinagar: Supreme Court on Thursday said that the newly appointed acting DGP of Jammu and Kashmir shall continue in office, a news gathering agency reported on Thursday. Dilbag Singh took over as the Director General of Police Jammu and Kashmir on September 7. He succeeded Dr. S.P Vaid who passed on the baton to Dilbag […]
New Delhi: Indian Army’s Director General of Military Operation (DGMO) Lt Gen Anil Chauhan has spoken to his Pakistani counterpart and lodged a stern protest against Ceasefire Violation (CFV) along the international border. As per sources in the army establishment, “A functional level talk was held on Tuesday, where Indian DGMO raised the issue of […]
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President, Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday asked the National Investigating Agency (NIA) to bring all the facts pertaining to their investigations in the State in public domain so that no misgivings about the conduct of the said agency is created among the people here. […]
New Delhi: The Ordinance to make Triple Talaq a punishable offence has come into force with President Ram Nath Kovind giving his assent to it, sources said on Wednesday. The President late on Wednesday night gave his approval to the ordinance, passed by the Union Cabinet earlier in the day. With the assent of the […]
Srinagar: The Pakistan Post has issued 20 “commemorative” postage stamps portraying slain Kashmiri militants and some others as “victims of atrocities by Indian troops in Kashmir”. A senior official of Pakistan Post told Times of India that the stamps — many with disturbing images — were issued from its headquarters in Karachi on July 24 to express Pakistan’s […]
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir unit of the Janata Dal (United) on Wednesday announced its participation in the upcoming municipal and panchayat polls, but demanded adequate security for its candidates. “We are going to fight the urban local body and panchayat polls, and our candidates in north Kashmir’s Kupwara and Baramulla districts have already started […]
Srinagar: Two BSF men, civilian driver killed in Banihal Road accident. In a road accident, at least two Border Security Forces personnel and a civilian driver were killed on Srinagar-Jammu highway near Banihal on Wednesday. An official said a truck carrying two BSF men skidded off the road and plunged into a gorge near Rattanbass, four […]
