Srinagar: Kashmir Press Club has condemned the attack on photojournalists in Shopian today. “It has been reported that the journalists were delivering their professional duties during the encounter and the protests in the area when the security forces fired pellets at them. Few photojournalists have received injuries on their faces during this incident,” KPC said […]
Srinagar: A youth was critically injured after a stone allegedly hurled by a CRPF personnel hit his head in Habba Kadal are of downtown Srinagar Tuesday. Reports said Muhammad Younis suffered injuries in his head following which he was shifted to SMHS hospital for treatment. The family members of the injured youth said he had […]
Srinagar: Unidentified men allegedly robbed employees of a filling station at gunpoint and decamped with Rs two lakh along the Jammu-Pathankot highway in Samba district, police said Tuesday. The incident took place near Dayani Monday night when some masked robbers took away cash from the employees, a police official said. A case has been registered […]
Srinagar:The gunfight between government forces and militants in Heff-Shirmal area of southern Kashmir’s Shopian district has ended with the killings of three militants and injuries to one army personnel. The gunfight started early today morning after government forces laid a siege to the orchards of Shirmal village in Zainapora belt of the district. “A joint team […]
Srinagar: The chopper and ropeway services were Tuesday shut due to snowfall and bad weather conditions at the Vaishnodevi shrine in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district, officials said. The Vaishnodevi shrine, located in the Trikuta hills, received this season’s first snowfall on Sunday even as pilgrims continued their journey to pay obeisance. “The chopper service […]
Srinagar: Around 65 people were killed in a Taliban-claimed attack on an Afghan intelligence base, a local official said Tuesday, raising the toll substantially from 12 announced previously, AFP reported. “We took about 65 bodies out of the rubble yesterday,” Mohammad Sardar Bakhyari, deputy head of the provincial council in Wardak province, where the attack […]
Srinagar: Army on Tuesday morning resorted to aerial firing after their vehicles came under intense stone pelting in Pulwama village. Reports said that the army vehicles came under heavy stone pelting by youth at Pahoo chowk in south Kashmir’s Pulwama while they were returning from a Cordon and Search Operation. The army, witnesses said, resorted to […]
Srinagar: Afghan officials say the brazen Taliban attack on a military base in an eastern province the previous day had killed at least 45 people, most of them military personnel. There are fears, however, that the death toll is even higher, AP reported.Khawanin Sultani, a council member Maidan Wardak province, told The Associated Press on […]
Srinagar: Three militants including the brother of an IPS officer were killed and an army soldier injured in Shopian district of south Kashmir on Tuesday. Reports said that a joint team of army’s 44 RR, Para Commandos and SOG launched a search operation in Shirmal after having credible input about the presence of some militants […]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would take an “in-chamber” decision on listing of a petition challenging the constitutional validity of Article 35-A, which provides special rights and privileges to permanent residents of Jammu and Kashmir. Advocate Bimal Roy Jad mentioned the matter before the bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi […]
