Srinagar: Only stranded vehicles were allowed to move on the Jammu-Srinagar highway on Wednesday to decongest the road, a traffic department official said. “All stranded vehicles heading towards Srinagar are being allowed. A decision to allow traffic towards Jammu will be taken only later. Our main aim right now is to completely decongest the highway,” […]
Srinagar: At least 30 people have been killed after unidentified gunmen opened fire on the people at a village in Nigeria, the police said. Mohammed Shehu, a police spokesman said the incident took place on Tuesday in the Kware village of Shinkafi district. The gunmen also burned the villagers’ homes, Xinhua news agency reported. According […]
Srinagar: Indian and Pakistani armies exchanged heavy fire across the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district till early hours on Wednesday, Defence Ministry said. The Pakistan Army used mortar shelling and small arms in the Sunderbani sector from around 10.30 p.m. on Tuesday, officials said. “The firing continued till 4.30. a.m. […]
Srinagar: Six policemen and two prisoners were injured after a vehicle they were traveling in met with an accident at Keeribal area of Mattan in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Tuesday afternoon. Reports reaching GNS said that a police bus carrying two prisoners while on the way to a local court in Kulgam from the district […]
Srinagar: Government forces burst teargas shells to disperse demonstrators who were pelting stones in Tral area of south Kashmir, where two militants were killed during overnight encounter. Official sources said that when the forces were leaving Reshi and Mir Mohalla on Tuesday after killing two militants in an encounter which ensued last night, demonstrators, mostly youths, […]
Srinagar: Urging troops to uphold the highest standards of professionalism of the Indian Army, Lt Gen Y K Joshi, General Officer Commanding (GOC) Fire & Fury Corps(F&FC) reviewed security situation in the world’s highest battle field Siachen sector, a defence ministry spokesman said on Tuesday afternoon. He said Lt Gen Joshi visited forward locations in the […]
Phagwara: The police have booked a Rajouri resident on the charge of kidnapping a minor girl on the pretext of marrying her. Police on Tuesday registered a case under various sections of the IPC on the basis of a complaint lodged by local resident Sewa Singh against Kaushal Kumar, a resident of Rajauri in Jammu and […]
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh sparked a controversy on Tuesday when referred to the Pulwama attack as a “durghatana” (accident), later reviewing it to “terror attack” after being trolled on social media. In a tweet earlier in the day, Singh said the foreign media had raised doubts over the air strike after the Pulwama […]
Jammu: Representatives of different political parties here met the visiting team of Election Commission of India on Tuesday and advocated holding state assembly polls simultaneously with the Lok Sabha elections. The team, headed by Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora, reached Jammu on the second leg of the two-day tour and held discussions with the representatives […]
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that a resolution passed by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in its recent meeting at Abu Dhabi has endorsed Pakistan’s stance on Kashmir and caused humiliation to India. Speaking in the National Assembly on Monday, the minister lauded the role of the opposition and the unity […]
