Srinagar: The Srinagar-Jammu highway was yet again on Friday closed for vehicular traffic. Reports said that the highway was closed for traffic following landslides at Battery Cheshma in Ramban. The officials said that men and machinery have been pressed in to clear the road.
Srinagar: Government forces on Friday fired several shots in the air after a bus they were traveling in came under intense stone pelting in bus stand of Tral in southern Kashmir. Witnesses said that the incident has led to a spontaneous shutdown in the town. A fierce gunfight is going on in some fifteen kilometers away from […]
Srinagar: Police have detained some persons in connection with the killing of senior BJP leader Anil Parihar and his brother by militants in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district. While tension has eased out in the district, night curfew continues to remain in force as a precautionary measure. A senior official said that the detained persons […]
Srinagar: Ahead of the fresh spell of rain and snow forecast next week, minimum temperatures across Jammu and Kashmir improved on Friday. Srinagar and Jammu recorded 1.0 and 12.5 degrees Celsius as the night’s lowest temperatures, respectively, improving from Thursday’s minus 0.4 and 11.5, Met said. “The lowest temperature was recorded in Kargil on Friday […]
Srinagar: Government forces Friday launched a cordon and search operation in Ganaigund village of Tral in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Sources said that the joint teams of 42 Rashtriya Rifles, Jammu and Kashmir Police, 182 Bn CRPF launched the search operation after inputs about the presence of militants in the village. More details are awaited.
Srinagar: Inspector General of police (IGP) traffic Basant Rath and the Mayor-elect Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) Junaid Mattu late Thursday engaged in a spat over the traffic management in Kashmir’s capital city. Talking about his plan of mending the traffic in Srinagar, Mattu took to Twitter. “Have received numerous complaints about traffic mismanagement issues in the city. I […]
Srinagar: A special police officer (SPO) of Jammu and Kashmir Police was killed on Friday after a vehicle he was travelling in skidded off the road and fell into a deep gorge in Bhabore area of Doda district. Two brothers have received serious injuries in the accident. A private carrier on way to Doda from Gath while […]
Srinagar: The Srinagar-Leh Highway reopened for vehicular traffic on Friday morning after remaining closed for eight consecutive days due to landslides amid heavy snowfall last week. The officials however said that only stranded vehicles will be allowed to travel initially. “The stranded vehicles in different areas of Drass, Meenmarg, Kargil and Leh mostly carrying passengers, […]
Srinagar: Demanding a high-level probe in the ‘issue of doling out secret packages to the members of Kashmiri Pandit community over the past so many decades’, All Parties Sikh Coordination Committee (APSCC) said that the successive governments in the state and center have been very kind enough to Kashmir Pandits by sanctioning packages for them […]
BANDIPORA: Legal Metrology Department on Thursday registered case against a Private School in Bandipora district for selling books in the school premises. Complying with the orders issued by the Deputy Commissioner Bandipora to act tough against the schools forcing children to buy books and uniform from the school or from specific shopkeepers, a joint team […]
