Srinagar: Government forces have arrested six youth during nocturnal raids from parts of Sopore in northern Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Sources said that the government forces conducted raids during the intervening night of Sunday and Monday. They said that forces raided many houses in Nowpora, Arampora and other areas of the town at around and arrested […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir government has foiled the Joint Resistance Leadership’s programme of candle light protest during the “human rights week”. The Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) comprising of octogenarian Hurriyat patriarch Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik have urged people to light candles in the evening to highlight “human rights abuses” […]
Srinagar: Government forces have withdrawn from the gunfight site in Shopian village in southern Kashmir amid intense stone pelting clashes in the area. Reports said that the firing has stopped for the last two to three hours. The gunfight ensued in the wee hours today after government forces laid a siege to Sangdan village near Imam […]
Moscow: More than 270 Islamic State terror group (IS) militants were killed as a result of the Syrian armed forces’ offensive in the southern province of Suwayda in November, a spokesman for the Command of the Russian Forces in Syria said on Monday. “During the operation, more than 270 militants were killed, a large stockpile […]
Government Monday placed Hurriyat Conference (M) chairperson Mirwaiz Umar Farooq under house arrest to prevent him from participating in candle light vigil against “human rights violations”. A spokesperson of the amalgam said that a posse of police reached Mirwaiz’s Nigeen residence and detained him inside. The Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) of which Mirwaiz is a […]
Srinagar: Kashmir’s capital city Srinagar on Monday recorded the coldest night of the season as the minimum temperature plummeted to minus 2.8 degrees Celsius. An official of the MeT department said that the minimum temperatures across Jammu and Kashmir continued to drop on Monday. “Srinagar witnessed the coldest night of the season due to the clear […]
Srinagar: A gunfight broke out between government forces and militants in in southern Kashmir’s Shopian village in the wee hours on Monday. Sources said that the gunfight broke out in Sangran village of Imamsahib area after government forces over specific inputs about presence of militants in the village launched a cordon and search operation. As […]
Jaipur: In a notable initiative, India on Sunday offered to Pakistan it’s help and cooperation for fighting out menace of terrorism on the soil of the neighbouring country, if the latter wished so. Making the offer, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, however, categorically held that Kashmir is not an issue for India, it is an […]
Jerusalem:Just a day after the end of term of Israel Police Commissioner Roni Alshich, the Israel Police has recommended to the prosecutors to charge Prime Minister Netanyahu and his wife Sarah with corruption following an investigation into their relationship with the leadership of Bezeq, the country’s largest telecommunications provider. Netanyahu denied all the allegations levelled […]
Srinagar: Governor Satya Pal Malik has written back to National Conference President, Omar Abdullah, wherein he said that no procedural changes, governing the Permanent Resident Certificates (PRC’s), is under consideration. Read the full letter: Governor Satya Pal Malik has made it clear that the State Government is not making or even considering any […]
