Srinagar: Government forces on Saturday launched a cordon and search operation in Dreed-Kalipora village of Shopian district in southern Kashmir. Reports said that a joint team of govt forces including 34 Rashtriya Rifles and Jammu and Kashmir police are conducting searches in the village. They said that the CASO was launched after inputs about presence […]
Srinagar: A complete shutdown is being observed across Kashmir valley on Saturday to mark it as “black day” against the landing of Indian army in Jammu and Kashmir. It was on this day in 1947 the first boots of Indian army landed in Kashmir. The Joint Resistance Leadership has called for a general strike to […]
Srinagar: Government for the third consecutive Friday today disallowed congregational prayers in Jamia Masjid in Srinagar. The historic Mughal era Masjid, therefore, was shut for worshippers for 16th time this year. Hurriyat Conference (M) chairperson Mirwaiz Umar Farooq who delivers the congregation sermon at the grand mosque castigated the government for curbing the peoples movement […]
Srinagar: An army personnel who was injured in a militant attack in Tral township of Pulwama district last night has succumbed to injuries. The slain was injured in an attack carried out by Jaish-e-Muhammad militant outfit at Lurgam Tral last evening. Earlier one army man was killed in the attack last night. “#ChinarCorpsCdr & All […]
Srinagar: Amnesty India’s bank accounts have been frozen by the Enforcement Directorate, “effectively stopping our work”. Amnesty India is thus the latest target of the government’s assault on civil society in the country. The accounts of Greenpeace India were frozen earlier this month, the organization said in a statement on Friday. “Government authorities are increasingly […]
Srinagar: Intense clashes erupted in Kulgam district of southern Kashmir on Friday amid pro-freedom protests against the killing of militants in Arwani gunfight on Thursday. Reports said that one teenager has suffered bullet injury during the clashes. Scores of the youth from Khudwani, Redwani, and adjoining areas clashed with government forces and hurled rocks at […]
Srinagar: Thousands of people Friday thronged the funeral prayers of slain four militants who were killed in a gunfight with government forces in Arwini area of southern Kashmir’s Anantnag district last night. Witnesses said that thousands of people, men, women and children marched to Arwini, Watoo Aharbal and Damhal Hanjipora where the slain militants belonged. […]
Srinagar: Militant outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) on Friday claimed the responsibility for the attack on army camp at Panzoo area of Nader, Tral in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district late Thursday evening. A JeM spokesperson Mohammad Hassan in a statement to a local news gathering agency claimed that three army men were killed in the attack while […]
Srinagar: Militants on Friday attacked the Army’s 34RR camp in Mantribuh village of southern Kashmir’s Shopian district. Sources said that the militants fired indiscriminately at the army camp at around noon today. The fire was also retaliated by the army, they said. However no loss of life was reported in the incident. More details are […]
Srinagar: Government forces arrested two youth during a nocturnal raid in southern Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Sources said that government forces cordoned a cluster of houses in Karimabad locality of Pulwama town and detained two local youth in the dead of the night. Police sources said that the youth have been detained for questioning for their […]
