Srinagar: Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, Saturday received the season’s first snowfall as cold wave like conditions gripped the Valley due to continuous downpour. The snowfall, which began in the higher reaches of the Valley on Thursday, has considerably brought down the maximum temperature in Kashmir. All weather stations across the Valley […]
Srinagar: The family of Srinagar youth, who is reported to have joined “militant ranks”, on Saturday made an appeal to him to return home for the sake of his ailing father. Ahtesham Bilal Sofi (19), a resident of Old City’s Khanyar area in Kashmir capital Srinagar was a first-year graduate student at Sharda University in […]
Srinagar: Fresh snowfall occurred in the higher reaches of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday while heavy rains lashed the plains, the weather department said. “Fresh snowfall has occurred in Zojila Pass, Drass, Kargil, Sonamarg, Pahalgam, and Gulmarg during the last 12 hours,” a department official said. “Rains continued in the plains of the valley and […]
Srinagar: Army shot dead a mentally-challenged man on Saturday allegedly after he tried to cross the fence of their camp in southern Kashmir’s Shopian district. Reports said that at around 3:00 am, the army personnel observed the movement of a suspicious person near their camp at Puhnoo village of the district. The soldiers, a police […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) Friday said the election to the post of mayor and deputy mayor of the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) is a battle between secular and communal forces. “The Congress has emerged as the single largest party in the elections to the SMC held last month. Make no […]
Srinagar: Kashmir meteorological department on Friday predicted widespread rains and snowfall across the valley. A spokesperson of the MeT department said that the rains will continue to lash the plain while snow will fall in higher reaches. The spokesperson said that the weather will improve gradually from Saturday. According to the reports, seasons first snowfall […]
Jammu: The Army staged a flag march in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar town where curfew was imposed after a senior BJP leader and his brother were killed by suspected militants Thursday night, officials said Friday. District Magistrate Kishtwar Angrez Singh Rana told PTI the situation was tense but under control. “The Army staged a flag […]
Srinagar: Government forces on Thursday night claimed to have killed a militant in a shootout at Sagipora area of Handwara in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district. An army official said that acting on a tip off, a Naka was laid by army’s 7 sector at Sagipora today late evening. In the meantime, a car was signalled […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir BJP state secretary Anil Parihar and his brother Ajit Parihar were killed in an attack by unknown gunmen at Kishtwar in Jammu on Thursday, police said. According to a police officer, the brothers were returning home after closing their stationery shop in Kishtwar town when unidentified gunmen shot them from close […]
Budgam: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has issued a summon to senior hurriyat leader and president Anjuman-e-Sharie- Shian Aga Syed Hasan Almosvi Alsafvi directed him to appear before the agency tomorrow. The agency had conducted a raid at the residence of Agha Syed Hassan in central Kashmir’s Budgam district in September 2017 in connection with funding […]
