August 02: Two local militants were Thursday killed in Khumriyal area of northern district of Kupwara. According to police spokesman government forces in the afternoon had established a Naka in the area, and while the checking at the Naka point was going on, militants fired on the Naka party which was retaliated. The killed militants were […]
Kupwara: Protest and clashes have erupted in Kalaroos and chaiwan areas of Kupwara district after two local militants were killed in a shootout on Thursday. According to locals as the news of Bilal Shah from Shart Muqam and Zahoor from Kalaroos being killed spread, youth took to streets and clashes with government forces. According to […]
Srinagar: Suspected militants on Thursday snatched service rifle of a bank security guard at Brakpora Anantnag in South Kashmir. Sources said militants allegedly overpowered the guard and decamped with his 12 Bore service rifles. Confirming the incident, SP Anantnag said that area has been cordoned off and searches launched.
Srinagar: Police on Thursday claimed they arrested 26 timber smugglers from Rampura village of Sopore in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. A senior police official in Sopore told that forest department lodged a complaint and police immediately acted and arrested 26 forest smugglers. The police official also said that the crackdown against forest smugglers will […]
Srinagar: Jama’at-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday said that it will support ‘movement for safeguarding the special status as granted under Article 35(A) and Article 370’. “JeI while giving full support to movement for safeguarding the special status as granted under Article 35(A) and Article 370 to Jammu and Kashmir, denounces those elements who for their […]
Ganderbal: A man was critically injured in a bear attack in Ramwari village of Gund area of central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Thursday morning. SHO Gund Syed Arif said that a man namely Maroof Ahmad Khan son of Mani Khan age about 38 years seriously injured when he was grazing his cattle in the nearby forests […]
Tral: A woman Hajj pilgrim from Tral area of South Kashmir, died of cardiac arrest in holy city of Makkah on Thursday. As per the sources, she has been identified as Hameeda Begum, wife of Ghulam Ahmad of Laribal village in Shikargah Tral. Hameedah according to family sources was in Makkah with her husband to perform […]
Srinagar: Traders at Fruit Mandi Parimpora Sriangar Thursday held a protest demonstration against attempts to scrap special status of Jammu and Kashmir. Traders from various associations assembled inside Fruit Mandi and raised slogans against revoking article 35A. There were holding placards reading “Dismiss petition Challenge”, “save article 35 A”, against attempts to abrogate Article 35A. […]
Srinagar: An unidentified person was killed after a train hit him at Mazahama area of central Kashmir’s Budgam district. The incident took place today evening at around 8:00 pm near Mazaham railway track. “The man was walking in the prohibited area,” an official from railway department said. The man is apparently a non-Muslim. So far […]
Srinagar: A 35-year-old man from Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir has been shot dead in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. While the accused has been arrested by the Saudi authorities, the poor family have no means to bring the body back home and urged the government of India through Ministry of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj […]
