Unidentified gunmen shoot dead civilian in north Kashmir’s Baramulla

Unidentified gunmen shoot dead civilian in north Kashmir’s Baramulla

Srinagar: Unidentified gunmen Saturday evening shot at a civilian in north Kashmir’s Baramulla. A senior Police officer said that a civilian namely Arjumand Hussain, a resident of old town Baramulla was fired upon by militants in the near J&K Bank leaving him critically injured. The officer further said that he was shifted to a nearby […]

Pulwama Grenade Blast: One CRPF personnel injured

Pulwama Grenade Blast: One CRPF personnel injured

Srinagar: A paramilitary CRPF man was injured after militants on Saturday hurled a grenade on CRPF bunker near SBI Branch in Pulwama district of south Kashmir. A police officer said that militants attacked a bunker of paramilitary CRPF 182 bn guarding the SBI branch Pulwama. “In the blast, one CRPF trooper suffered injuries. The injured […]

Forces launch search operation in Tral village in south Kashmir

Forces launch search operation in Tral village in south Kashmir

Pulwama: Government forces on Saturday afternoon launched Cordon and Search Operation in Nazneenpora Hayuna area of Tral in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Official sources told KNO that on specific inputs about the presence of militants joint team of forces including 42 RR, Jammu and Kashmir Police and paramilitary CRPF launched search operation in the area. Local sources […]

Militants hurl grenade in Pulwama town

Pulwama: Suspected militants on Saturday lobbed a grenade near SBI Bank branch in southern Kashmir’s Pulwama town. Reports said that the grenade exploded with a loud bang outside the branch, however, no loss of life or injury has been reported so far. Meanwhile forces have been rushed to the spot and searches launched in the area […]

Multi-disciplinary terror monitoring group will help end militancy in J&K: Governor

Multi-disciplinary terror monitoring group will help end militancy in J&K: Governor

Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik Saturday said the newly set up multi-disciplinary terror monitoring group (MDTMG) would help put an end to the menace in the state. “Terror funding and militant organisation sympathisers are everywhere… Unless they are dealt with, militancy cannot be wiped out,” Malik told reporters on the sidelines of a […]

Nine police officers killed by Afghan Taliban in checkpoint assault in Ghazni

Nine police officers killed by Afghan Taliban in checkpoint assault in Ghazni

Srinagar: Nine Afghan policemen were killed after Taliban fighters stormed their checkpoints and launched a follow-up ambush in the eastern Afghanistan city of Ghazni, officials said on Saturday. The assault began early on Friday when the Afghan Taliban attacked two adjacent checkpoints, Ghazni police spokesman Ahmad Khan Seerat told AFP. The Afghan Taliban then ambushed […]

Bar holds emergency meeting after Sessions Judge disallows seminar on Self-Determination, ‘repression in Kashmir’

Bar holds emergency meeting after Sessions Judge disallows seminar on Self-Determination, ‘repression in Kashmir’

Srinagar: After for the first time the Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association was on Saturday stopped from holding a seminar on the “martyrdom” anniversary of advocate Jaleel Andrabi at District Court Complex in Srinagar, the Bar association has criticised Principal District and Sessions Srinagar Abdul Rashid Malik for disallowing the seminar stating that […]

Former Congress state VP Sham Lal Sharma joins BJP in Jammu

Former Congress state VP Sham Lal Sharma joins BJP in Jammu

Jammu: In a set back to Congress, its senior leader and former state vice president Sham Lal Sharma on Saturday joined Bharatiya Janata Party in Jammu. Sharma was welcomed into the party by BJP National Vice-President & J&K incharge Avinash Rai Khanna, State President Ravinder Raina and other senior leaders. Reports quoting sources said that Sharma […]