New Delhi: The number of ceasefire violations or cross-border firings in Jammu and Kashmir more than doubled in 2018 compared to the previous year, while the casualties the BSF suffered in terms of death of its jawans in these incidents increased by three times, the government informed the parliament on Tuesday. Such incidents saw a […]
Srinagar: The Jammu-Srinagar highway that was restored for one-way traffic has already allowed over 1,400 vehicles to cross the Jawahar Tunnel and reach the Kashmir Valley, a traffic official said on Wednesday. The strategic highway was restored for one-way traffic on Tuesday after seven days following avalanches and lanslides. Since Tuesday afternoon some 700 trucks […]
Srinagar: Thousands of people Tuesday participated in the last rites of Hizb ul Mujahideen militant killed in a gunfight with government forces in Ratnipora village of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Reports said that as the body of Hilal Ahmad Rather reached his native village of Begumbagh thousands of mourners assembled to participate in his funeral […]
Srinagar: Authorities on Tuesday evening allowed stranded light-motor vehicles and fuel tankers to move towards Kashmir valley after the road was made motorable for one-way traffic. Officials said that the road was cleared after the debris of landslides was removed. Over one hundred stranded fuel tankers and light passenger vehicles were allowed after seven days from Ramban […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairperson Muhammad Yasin Malik Tuesday expressed grief and sorrow over the demise of grand Mufti Jammu and Kashmir Mufti Bashir-ud-Din. Malik along with a delegation comprising of vice chairman Mushtaq Ajmal and others visited the residence of grand Mufti, met with his bereaved family and expressed condolences, a statement […]
Srinagar: Jama’at-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday termed the attempts of tinkering with Article 35-A as ‘unacceptable’ and pledged complete support to peaceful protest program issued by the Joint Resistant Leadership (JRL). Jama’at spokesperson Advocate Zahid Ali, in a statement said that any attempt of tinkering with Article 35A, which provides special status to the state […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association has taken a strong notice of the events which have led to the arrest of two lawyers Musavvir Ahmad Mir and Aamir Masoodi who are accused of having fabricated a bail order to facilitate the release of certain accused persons. The Bar in a statement said […]
Srinagar: A waiter at a banquet hall in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district was shot at as a group of alleged drunk guests opened fire after a fight over food, officials said Tuesday. The incident happened at a party in a banquet hall in Logate Morh area on Monday night when some guests, who were apparently […]
Srinagar: The death toll after a fire in a hotel in New Delhi’s congested Karol Bagh area rose to 17 as rescuers looked for survivors on Tuesday, officials said, prompting the Delhi government to order a probe into the latest incident. “Seventeen people have died and two others have been injured. Most of the people […]
Srinagar: Former Afghan interim president and anti-communist guerrilla Sibghatullah Mujaddadi has died. Sibghatullah Mojaddedi was born on 21 April 1925. He served as president after the fall of Mohammad Najibullah’s government in April 1992. He was the founder of the Afghan National Liberation Front and served as the chairman of the 2003 Loya Jirga, the […]
