Srinagar: Four militants have been killed in an ongoing gunfight that ensued between government forces and militants in Pulwama village of southern Kashmir Saturday morning. Police sources said that the gunfight erupted in Hanjan village of the south Kashmir district after a joint team of government forces including army’s 44 Rashtriya Rifles, CRPF’s 182, 183 Battalions […]
Srinagar: Severe cold wave continued unabated in the Kashmir Valley and Ladakh on Saturday with the capital city Srinagar shivering at minus 7.2 degree Celsius. At minus 21.1 degree Celsius, Drass recorded the night’s lowest temperature, and the town was coldest in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, MeT officials said. It said that Pahalgam recorded temperature at minus […]
Srinagar: A bomb blast ripped through a bus stand in Jammu Friday night. The explosion, a low-intensity grenade blast, occurred sometime after midnight, police officials said. Reports said that the preliminary investigation revealed that the bomb was placed close to a load carrier which suffered damage. No casualties or injuries have been reported. Security has been […]
Srinagar: The army on Saturday said that it recovered two AK 47’s and warlike stores in Jammu. An army spokesperson said that the warlike stores were found buried in the ground. The recovery was made during a search operation launched by Army in Samba of Jammu on the intervening Night of December 28 and 29 2018.
Srinagar: Two militants have been killed in an ongoing gunfight that broke out in Hanjin Payeen area of Rajpora village in southern Kashmir’s Pulwama district Saturday morning. Reports said that a joint team of army’s 44RR, CRPF’s 182, 183 Battalions and SOG of Jammu and Kashmir police Pulwama launched a cordon and search operation in […]
Srinagar: Reacting to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s statement that the centre was ready to hold Assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir, National Conference (NC) Vice President Omar Abdullah said this should put to rest the motivated speculation that elections in the state will happen only after the general elections. “An important assurance on the […]
Jammu: Paramilitary BSF on Friday recovered heroin worth Rs 15 crores on Indo-Pak international border in Akhnoor sector here. “On specific information of Border Security Force’s G-branch, a joint BSF-Army this morning carried out a search operation in the area ahead of border fence in Akhnoor Sector of International Border,” official sources here said. They […]
Srinagar: Thousands of people participated in the last rites of a wealthy militant here in Koil village of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Ishfaq Yousuf Wani, a resident of Koil Pulwama who joined militant ranks in July this was killed at Bandarpora gunfight on Friday morning. Government Forces including 55 Rashtriya Rifles of Indian Army had […]
Srinagar: At least 495 people were killed due to militancy related incidents as well as cross border firing since January 2018. This year, people in Kashmir saw a couple of bloodies days. On April 1 alone, in three different encounters in South Kashmir and subsequent clashes 13 militants, 4 civilians and 3 army soldiers were […]
Washington: US government partial shutdown is likely to stretch towards the new year, after legislators failed to make a breakthrough in the row over President Donald Trump’s demand for a US-Mexico border wall on Thursday. After convening for just a few minutes following the official Christmas break, a still nearly empty Senate adjourned, deciding to […]
