Srinagar: Authorities have suspended traffic on hilly roads in north Kashmir Kupwara district following fresh snowfall in the area. Officials said that while Kupwara-Tanghdar road has been closed for two days, the Kupwara-Machil and Kupwara-Keran roads have been shut for traffic for unspecified time. However, the Srinagar-Jammu highway is still through for traffic. Pertinently, it is […]
Srinagar: The civilian who was injured in an attack by unknown gunmen early today in south Kashmir’s Tral has succumbed to injuries. The civilian has been identified as Suman Singh, son of Nanak Singh, a resident of Khasipora village of the township. Reports said that Singh was critically injured in the attack and was shifted […]
Srinagar: Thousands of people on Friday turned up for the funeral prayers of slain militants in Laribal and Charsoo villages of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Three militants, two of the Hizbul Mujahideen and one of Jaish-e-Mohammad, were killed in a gunfight with government forces on Thursday in Gulshanpora village of Tral township of the district. The […]
Shopian: Reviving her practice of 90’s, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday visited the family of a slain militant in Safnagri area of South Kashmir’s Shopian district. The action of Mehbooba prompted her bete noire Omar Abdullah to take a dig on her on his Twitter handler. This was the second time […]
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday hit out at another former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti and said that she was using dead militants to try yo appease the voters. Omar said that the architect of “Operation All-out” and the overseer of the operations that killed hundreds of militants […]
Srinagar: In Jammu and Kashmir last year alone, 908 people have been killed in 5,529 road accidents across the state till November. Another 7,250 were injured. As per the records for the last eight years, on an average, 15 accidents take place every day. A person gets killed in an accident every seven hours while someone […]
Srinagar: Three Hizbul Mujahideen militants and an army personnel has been killed in an ongoing encounter in Gulshanpora area of Tral in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district Thursday. Police sources confirmed to The Kashmir Press that three militants have been killed and their bodies have been retreived from the encounter site. However, he said that the identification […]
Srinagar:The Pakistan army has invited India to table for dialogue to resolve all the pending issues including the 70 years long pending dispute of Kashmir, the News International reported on Thursday. Major General Asif Ghafoor, the army’s spokesperson, in an interview with a private news channel while inviting India to table said it was India […]
Srinagar: A Chinese spacecraft has become the first craft ever to land on the “far side” of the moon, according to state-run media, in a giant leap for human space exploration. The China National Space Administration (CNSA) landed the robotic probe, Chang’e 4 in the unexplored South Pole-Aitken basin, the largest, oldest, deepest, crater on […]
Srinagar: Even as the army and other government forces launched the much-hyped operation ‘All Out’ to wipe out militancy in Kashmir, highest number of local boys joined the ranks of various militant outfits in Kashmir in a decade. This is also pointing out the fact that hard line strategy adopted by the BJP led dispensation […]
