Srinagar: A B.Tech student from Pulwama district of south Kashmir has gone missing even as police said it was investigating “all angles” into it. Reports reaching here said that Khursheed Ahmad Malik son of Ghulam Nabi Malik left his home at Arabal Nikas, Pulwama on Tuesdaymorning. According to his family Malik told them that he has […]
Budgam: A motorcyclist was killed while his pillion rider sustained injuries when a tree fell upon them in Khansahib area of central Kashmir’s Budgam district, police said Wednesday. Firdous Ahmad Dar and his pillion rider Javaid Ahmad Thakray, both residents of Mujpathri were injured when a tree fell upon their motorbike at Bugroo stop, Khansahib […]
Srinagar: Members from various trade and industry bodies and civil society on Wednesday staged a protest in this summer capital, against the alleged attempts being made to abrogate Article 35-A. The protest comes in the backdrop of the Supreme Court (SC) hearing two petitions, challenging the validity of Article 35-A, on August 6. Representatives from […]
Srinagar: A mega anti-encroachment drive was launched by authorities during which 70 kanals of government land was retrieved in south Kashmir district of Shopian. An official spokesperson said that the district administration Shopian on Tuesday launched a mega anti-encroachment drive to remove illegally raised structures and retrieve state land from encroachers. “During the first phase […]
Srinagar: Local residents of Shatmuqam village and its adjoining areas in north Kashmir’s Lolab area staged nocturnal protest allegedly against high handedness of forces and arrest of some youth on Tuesday evening. The locals said that a joint team of SOG and CRPF arrived in the village late on Tuesday evening and took into custody the three youths namely […]
Srinagar,: In a first incident of its kind, unknown persons on Tuesday overpowered a cop and snatched his service rifle from Kandhar area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district. The policeman namely Mohd Ishaq (belt no. 436) of 4th IRP bn who is part of the deployment in wake of former minister and MLA Abdul Haq […]
SHOPIAN: Militants on Monday night barged into the houses of three police constables, thrashed and asked them to resign from their job. The incident happened in Shopian villages of South Kashmir. Police sourced confirmed the incident. “During intervening night three constables identified as Jahangir Wagay, Faizan Wagay, and Danish Bhat, all residents of Nadpora […]
Srinagar: Fresh batches of pilgrims left base camps on Tuesday for the holy Amarnath cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas, where so far 2.63 lakh yatris have paid obeisance since the commencement of the 60-day-long pilgrimage from June 28. Weather is pleasant and pilgrimage was progressing smoothly from the shortest and traditional Pahalgam tracks, official […]
Pulwama: A large number of mourners participated in the last rites of Naseer Ahmed who was killed by suspected militants on Sunday evening when he was coming out from his house in Naira village of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Naseer was posted in Pulwama with Para-military Central Reserve Police Force. No militant outfit claimed the responsibility […]
Baramulla: Four members of a family were injured , two of them critically, when an alleged mentally challenged person attacked them with sharp edged weapon in this north Kashmir district late Sunday night, official sources said. They said an alleged mentally challenged man attacked Abdul Khaiq Dar, his sons Farooq Ahmad Dar and Nazir Ahmad […]
