Srinagar: A day after the announcement of poll schedule for Lok Sabha elections, the National Conference (NC) has finalized its list of three candidates from three Lok Sabha constituencies of Kashmir valley. Top sources in National Conference said that the party president and three-time former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah and senior party […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Monday identified one of the militants slain in Tral gunfight as Mudasir Ahmad Khan, son of Farooq Ahmad Khan, a resident of Midoora village of Tral township. A police spokesperson said that incriminating material was also recovered from the encounter site and it is suspected that the other […]
Poonch: Government forces have arrested a boy along with grenades in Surankote town where an army recruitment rally is going on. Police sources said that the boy is the resident of Kalakote tehsil area of Rajouri district and has been arrested from outside the recruitment rally venue. He was found in possession of two grenades […]
Srinagar: Pakistan Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Monday said India does not have the courage to hold elections in Kashmir “despite heavy military presence”. The information minister took to Twitter and said, “700,000 troops have been deployed in Kashmir and there’s one Indian soldier to every 10 Kashmiris. Despite this, you [India] do not have […]
Srinagar: The cross LoC (Line of Control) bus service, Karvan-e-Aman, operating between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistan Administered Kashmir (PaK) remained suspended for the second week on Monday, official sources said. We have received information that cross-Line of Control (LoC) bus service will remain suspended for the second consecutive week, sources said. Last week […]
Srinagar: Pakistan foreign minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, has said that his country wants peace, but will not compromise on Kashmir. “Pakistan wants peace in the region but will not compromise on Kashmir. We raised our voice over human rights violations in India-held Kashmir at every forum, including the House of Commons, the United Nations and […]
Srinagar: The mastermind of the February 14 Pulwama militant attack that killed over 40 CRPF personnel is believed to have been killed in an encounter in Tral area of South Kashmir, officials said Monday. The encounter in Pinglish area of Tral in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district lasted past midnight in which Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) militant Mudasir Ahmed […]
Srinagar: Authorities on Monday allowed one-way traffic from Srinagar to Jammu on the Kashmir highway. No vehicle would be allowed to move in the opposite direction to avoid congestion along the 300-km road, a traffi cpolice official said. The Met has forecast rain and snow in Jammu and Kashmir for the day. The Ramsoo-Ramban stretch becomes […]
Srinagar: The Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar who evaded the American net for over a decade lived just a stone’s throw away from a US base in Afghanistan, a book by a Dutch journalist has revealed. Bette Dam, a Dutch journalist and writer who has reported from Afghanistan since 2006, published a biography on the Taliban […]
Srinagar: The primary, middle, secondary and higher secondary schools, and colleges in Kashmir division opened on Monday for regular classwork after nearly three months of winter vacations. Although the schools were scheduled to reopen on March 2 however, the vacations were extended by the divisional administration following predictions of rains and snowfall. While classes up to […]
