Srinagar: Kashmir’s capital city Srinagar on Thursday recorded the coldest December night in 28 years at minus 7.6 degrees celsius, partially freezing the Dal Lake and other water bodies. Kashmir is currently under the grip of ‘Chillai-Kalan’ – the 40-day harshest period of winter when the chances of snowfall are most frequent and maximum and the […]
Srinagar: Parts of Dal Lake and other water bodies besides residential water supply pipes froze over as severe winter conditions gripped Kashmir with this summer capital of the state recording season’s coldest day on Wednesday. A meteorological department official said that Srinagar recorded maximum temperature of 3.7 degrees Celsius, five degrees below the normal for […]
Srinagar: Government Forces on Wednesday morning blasted the hideout used by militants in Armpora Tral village of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. On December 22, six militants from Zakir Musa led Ansar Ghazwatul Hind were killed beside the said hideout. They were identified as Sahil Ahmed Akhoon from Armpora, Rasik Ahmed Mir, Rouf Ahmed Mir, Omar […]
Srinagar: In a scathing attack, Deputy Mayor, Sheikh Imran has accused Srinagar Mayor Junaid Matoo and State Governor Satyapal Malik of being backed by the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP). Expressing his resentment over the amendment in the act of finance and planning committee, which has given the charge of the said section of to the […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday ordered the transfers of eleven Indian Police Service (IPS) officers. Out of the 11 officers shuffled, one was heading a division and four of them were heading the district units. Dr Shiv Dev Singh Jamwal, Inspector General of Police Jammu, has been posted as IGP (CIV), police […]
Pulwama: Government Forces apprehended over a dozen youth from multiple locations of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district during nocturnal raids. These youth according to police have been arrested on charges of stone-pelting. Locals said that Government Forces conducted night raids in Gangoo, Pirchu, Malikpora, Dalipora, Dangarpora and other places of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. During the […]
Srinagar: Lakes and Water Ways Development Authority (LAWDA) has said that Deputy Mayor, Sheikh Imran was lying that SMC was part of the Dal lake cleaning process. The Authority also said that the army was insisting LAWDA to take them along for cleaning the lake for reasons unknown to them. “SMC has zero role […]
Srinagar: Asserting that India should adopt a “clear-cut roadmap” to tackle the Kashmir issue, former DGP of Jammu & Kashmir K Rajendra Kumar has said the US pulling out troops from Afghanistan will have implications in the Valley and militant outfits may feel emboldened. Kumar was delivering the Lalitaditya Memorial Lecture in Pune, organised by Sarhad […]
Srinagar: In collaboration with Army, Lakes and Water Ways Development Authority (LAWDA) and local public of Dal conducted an extensive Dal cleaning drive. The Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) assisted the drive, Deputy Mayor Shiekh Imran said. The drive which would continue for 21 days was headed by Deputy Mayor. At least eighty Army boats and three […]
Srinagar: Zakir Musa led Ansar Gahzawat-ul-Hind (AGH) outfit is left with only four militants after six of its members were killed during a recent encounter with government forces at Arampora village of south Kashmir’s Tral area, police sources said. The police said the group led by AGH head Musa, who parted ways from the Hizbul […]
