Srinagar: The Joint Resistance Leadership has called for a complete shutdown on November 17 when Panchayat Polls will begin across Kashmir. The JRL comprising Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik urged people to observe shutdown against “yet another election drama” being enacted by the “oppressive regime” of New Delhi. They urged […]
Jammu: Five persons, including a suspected drug peddler, have been taken into preventive custody in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said Wednesday. Payar Hussain, a resident of Kote Dabbar village, was detained in Nowshera area of the district and lodged in district jail, a police spokesman said. Hussain is a notorious drug peddler […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday arrested two local Hizb Ul Mujahideen militants at Awantipora area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. A police officer said that a joint naka was established at Panzgam railway underpass by 55 RR, Awantipora Police and 185 CRPF late Tuesday evening. “At around 9.30 pm two persons were spotted […]
Sopore: Tehreek-e-Hurriyat chairperson Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai, Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik and several other resistance leaders and activists on Wednesday participated in the funeral prayers of octogenarian Hurriyat patriarch Syed Ali Geelani’s son-in-law at Sopore. Witnesses said a large number op people attended the funeral procession of Ghulam Hassan Makhdoomi at Dooru […]
Srinagar: The Bharatiya Janata Party has said it is ready to form the government in J&K. The BJP with 26 MLAs is looking for 19 other lawmakers to touch the magic figure of 45, according to a senior functionary of the party in J&K who has been involved in government-formation efforts, Tribune India reported. Ashok […]
Srinagar: Fresh snowfall and rains occurred in the mountains of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, as the Met forecast scattered rains and snow to continue till Thursday. There would be some improvement in the weather after Thursday, the weather official said, adding that the state has so far received 83.5 mm rainfall between October 1 […]
Srinagar: Many rural areas in Ladakh in Kashmir region have been unanimously elected new sarpanches and panches. Nearly 40 percent sarpanches and 94 percent panches in Leh district have already been elected unopposed even as the panchayat elections are to start in the Ladakh region from November 17. A total of 31 blocks, including 16 […]
Srinagar: Pakistan Administered Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan has said there was no military solution to the Kashmir issue and India would have to initiate dialogue with Pakistan and Kashmiris to find a way for a peaceful settlement of this longstanding dispute. He said that Pakistan had always sought a peaceful resolution of the […]
Srinagar: 200 militants have been killed in Jammu and Kashmir so far in 2018, media reports said on Wednesday among whom 109 were killed in southern Kashmir and 45 in northern Kashmir. India Today reported that while most of the slain militants belonged to the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the highest number were killed in southern Kashmir. Among the […]
Srinagar: An army officer said that the militant was killed in the ambush laid by the troops after he tried to sneak in this side along the border at Khour area. The body of the slain was recovered along with a weapon and other arms and ammunition, he said. A police officer told GNS that […]
