Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir police is set to get non-lethal pepper-ball launching systems and anti-riot gas masks to deal with law and order situations in the state, officials said Friday. The department has floated tenders for seeking technical bid from manufacturers and dealers of these two products, they said. A pepper-ball launching system, also […]
Srinagar: Peoples Democratic Party president and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti Friday questioned the timing of the NIA arrests before the next year’s Parliamentary elections, saying “national security is best served by being just and inclusive, not suspicious of an entire community”. Mehbooba said though national security is supreme but declaring suspects […]
Srinagar: Government Friday ordered cancellation of Jammu and Kashmir Group Mediclam Insurance Policy for all state government employees including employees of PSUs, autonomous bodies, universities, pensioners and IAS officers. The cancellation will come into effect from midnight of December 31, 2018. A communique informed: “Sanction is accorded to the revocation, withdrawal of Govt order regarding […]
Srinagar: Hiba Nisar who became the youngest victim of pellets in Kashmir and probably in the world has featured among the ten ordinary people who faced extraordinary circumstances and made an impact in 2018 on Turkey’s TRT World. Besides Hiba others who are in the list include Amal Hussain, a 7 year old Yemeni girl who […]
Srinagar: A spontaneous shutdown is being observed in Pulwama and Awantipora townships of southern Kashmir following the killing of a local militant. Reports said that all shops and other business establishments shut spontaneously while public and private transport went off the roads. Eyewitnesses said that scores of youths took to streets and hurled government forces […]
Srinagar: Authorities on Friday suspended train services on Banihal-Srinagar track following killing of a local militant in a gunfight earlier today. A railway official said that the decision has been made as a precautionary measure to maintain law and order. He said, however, train services on Budgam in central Kashmir and Baramulla in north Kashmir […]
Srinagar: Intense protests, clashes erupted in Pulwama town of southern Kashmir on Friday following the killing of a local militant in a gunfight with government forces. Eyewitnesses said that scores of youths took to streets and hurled government forces with rocks in the town soon after the news of killing of a local militant Ishfaq Yousuf Wani, […]
Srinagar: A youth died of asphyxiation while three others including a lady are critical in Buran area of Pattan in northern Kashmir’s Baramulla district. All the four were shifted to Pattan hospital where one boy died while three others are under treatment. The identity of deceased could not be confirmed immediately. BMO Pattan Dr Masrat Iqbal […]
Srinagar: A woman from Sailan in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch has become one of the oldest mothers in the world after giving birth to a baby girl aged 65. The mother, who has not been named, gave birth on Boxing Day at the hospital in a remote part of Jammu and Kashmir, reported Daily Mail. Father […]
Srinagar: Government forces Friday cordoned two villages in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district and launched search operations. Reports said that a joint team of Army’s 14 Rashtriya Rifles, Jammu and Kashmir Police’s Special Operation Group and paramilitary CRPF conducted searches in Gojerpati area of the district.”Another search operation was launched in Sodnara village of Sumbal in […]
