Srinagar: At least one militant was allegedly killed in a shootout in north Kashmir’s Handwara area on Sunday afternoon. According to the police, the militant hurled a grenade at a patrolling party of government forces, following which he he was challenged, resulting in a shoot out. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Handwara Ashish Kumar Mishra told Kashmir […]
Srinagar/ Poonch: In wake of bad weather conditions from November 12, the authorities ordered the closure of Mughal Road for vehicular traffic for three days from tomorrow. Superintendent Police Poonch Rajiv Panday while talking to GNS said that in view of predictions of bad weather from tomorrow, the Mughal Road will remain closed for three […]
Srinagar: A panchayat ghar was set ablaze in north Kashmir district of Baramulla, taking the told number of such government buildings damaged in less than three months in the valley to nine. Official sources on Sunday said that unidentified miscreants set on fire a panchayat ghar at a village in the apple township of Sopore […]
Washington: At least nine people have died while more than 250,000 people have been forced to flee their homes to avoid three major blazes in California, officials said. Firefighters were powerless in stopping a wildfire destroying the northern town of Paradise, where 35 people are missing, a report in BBC stated. A raging wildfire swept […]
Srinagar: Two Border Security Force (BSF) personnel were critically injured in cross-border shelling along the Line of Control (LoC) in Sunderbani sector of Rajouri in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday evening. A police officer said that Pakistan army in “violation of ceasefire” attacked the posts of 126 bn of BSF along the border in Sunderbani […]
Srinagar: The Kashmir Traders and Manufacturers Federation (KTMF) on Saturday expressed serious concern over the alleged harassment of traders by Sales Tax department and said the “official hooliganism was intolerable.” “Instead of feeling ashamed for having failed to do anything good for the traders, the government is resorting to tactics, which seem to sabotage revival […]
Srinagar: Jama’at-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday vehemently condemned the “intimidation of Kashmiri students” studying in and jamaatoutside the valley in different educational institutions by the Indian agencies. In a statement issued here this afternoon, a spokesperson of Jama’at said: “In the universities and colleges outside Jammu and Kashmir, scores of students have been so far arrested […]
Srinagar: Syed Ali Geelani led Hurriyat Conference faction is organizing a Seerat Conference next Sunday in view of the month of Rabi-ul-Awwal. The Seerat Conference will be held on November 18, Sunday, 10:30 am at Geelani’residence-cum-officece at Hyderpora Srinagar, a spokesperson said. Hurriyat chairman Syed Ali Geelani and other noted personalities including religious and political […]
Shahjahanpur (UP): A pregnant woman was allegedly strangled to death on a train for objecting to a co-passenger smoking, a senior GRP official said. On Friday night, Chinat Devi (45) was travelling with her family in the general bogey of Punjab-Bihar Jallianwala Express when she objected to a co-passenger, identified as Sonu Yadav, smoking, GRP […]
Srinagar: Hurriyat patriarch Syed Ali Geelani on Saturday paid tributes to slain armed youth in Tral and Pulwama gunfights. While holding India responsible for “unabated bloodshed” in Kashmir, Geelani said the youths spill their blood for the great and sacred cause of Kashmir and the entire nation of Kashmir is indebted to “these martyrs” for […]
