Srinagar: Unidentified men allegedly robbed employees of a filling station at gunpoint and decamped with Rs two lakh along the Jammu-Pathankot highway in Samba district, police said Tuesday. The incident took place near Dayani Monday night when some masked robbers took away cash from the employees, a police official said. A case has been registered […]
Srinagar: The chopper and ropeway services were Tuesday shut due to snowfall and bad weather conditions at the Vaishnodevi shrine in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district, officials said. The Vaishnodevi shrine, located in the Trikuta hills, received this season’s first snowfall on Sunday even as pilgrims continued their journey to pay obeisance. “The chopper service […]
Srinagar: Around 65 people were killed in a Taliban-claimed attack on an Afghan intelligence base, a local official said Tuesday, raising the toll substantially from 12 announced previously, AFP reported. “We took about 65 bodies out of the rubble yesterday,” Mohammad Sardar Bakhyari, deputy head of the provincial council in Wardak province, where the attack […]
Srinagar: Army on Tuesday morning resorted to aerial firing after their vehicles came under intense stone pelting in Pulwama village. Reports said that the army vehicles came under heavy stone pelting by youth at Pahoo chowk in south Kashmir’s Pulwama while they were returning from a Cordon and Search Operation. The army, witnesses said, resorted to […]
Srinagar: Three militants including the brother of an IPS officer were killed and an army soldier injured in Shopian district of south Kashmir on Tuesday. Reports said that a joint team of army’s 44 RR, Para Commandos and SOG launched a search operation in Shirmal after having credible input about the presence of some militants […]
Srinagar: The three militants slain in a gunfight with government forces on Monday in central Kashmir’s Budgam district have been identified. The slain include Zahid Ahmad, son of Nazir Ahmad, a resident of Drabgam Pulwama; Tawseef Ahmad Yatoo, son of Abdul Aziz Yatoo, a resident of Ghadbug Lassipora; and Syed Rabani son of Syed Hussain […]
Shopian: Two militants have been killed in an ongoing gunfight with government forces in Shirmal orchards in Zainapora belt of Southern Kashmir’s Shopian district. A top commander is also beleived to be among the slain. Police sources said that two militants have been killed in the gunfight so far while the operation is still on. Although […]
Srinagar:Heavy rains and light to moderate fresh snowfall occurred in Jammu and Kashmir Tuesday. While heavy to moderate rains lashed majorly in Jammu, light to moderate snowfall occurred in Kashmir valley. A MeT official said that western disturbance active over Jammu and Kashmir has resulted in rains in the Jammu division and the snowfall in the […]
Karachi: Scores of leaders and workers of the Pashtoon Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) have been arrested by the Sindh police under anti-terrorism laws after they organised a rally on the outskirts of this city of Pakistan, officials said Tuesday. According to senior police officials, the PTM leaders and workers were booked for resorting to “undesirable language […]
Srinagar: After a brief lull in exchange of fire, firing resumed in Shirmal orchards Tuesday morning where a gunfight raged between government forces and militants since early morning today. The gunfight broke out between militants and government forces after a joint team of army’s 44 RR and SOG of Jammu and Kashmir police launched a […]
