Srinagar: Kashmir’s capital city Srinagar on Monday recorded the coldest December night of the season after 11 years at minus 6.8 degrees Celsius while severe cold wave swept across Kashmir Valley. Meteorological department officials said that it was after 11 years that Srinagar recorded the coldest night. It was on December 31, 2007, last time when […]
Srinagar: Director School Education Kashmir (DSEK), Dr. GN Itoo on Sunday warned action against private schools demanding lump sum fee and the charges for heating and transport facilities for the time when these facilities are not being provided by the school. DSEK issued a circular on Saturday clarifying that no school can force the parents […]
Srinagar: At least six people including five CRPF personnel and a cop were wounded in a grenade blast during a search operation in Arwani area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Saturday. Reports said that the forces were withdrawing from Hassanpura area of Arwani following clashes during a search operation when the blast took place. […]
Srinagar: Six Ansar Gazwat-ul-Hind militants have been killed in a gunfight with government forces in Armpora village of Tral in southern Kashmir’s Pulwama district Saturday morning. The slain include AGH deputy commander Sualeh Akhoon, Rasik Mir, and Faisal Javed, sources said. The gunfight ensued after government including army’s 42RR, 180 BN CRPF and SOG of Jammu and […]
Srinagar: Seven labourers from Baramulla district were killed and one more, stated to be 16-year-old, is missing when a mountain portion caved-in while a poclain was working during construction of a road near Bansbada area in Uttarakhand’s Rudraprayag district on Friday. Station House Officer (SHO), Ukhimath, Hoshiyar Pankholi told over phone that a group of around […]
Srinagar:Two army officers were killed in a ‘sniper attack’ by Pakistan army along the Line of Control in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Friday late afternoon. Official sources told GNS that Pakistan army in “violation of ceasefire” opened the sniper fire upon the army’s 2/8 GR posts in Peer Baba Grahat Post along the LoC in […]
Srinagar: Bharatiya Janata Party former ally and Peoples Conference chairman Sajjad Gani Lone Friday ruled out any pre-poll alliance for the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir. Lone was speaking to media in Srinagar as former PDP leader and lawmaker Abid Ansari joined Peoples Conference. “We will not enter into pre-poll alliance with any regional […]
Srinagar: National Conference President Dr Farooq Abdullah on Thursday declared that if voted to power in the ensuing assembly elections, regional autonomy will be granted in Jammu and Kashmir within 30 days of his party forming the government. “The road map in this regard has been drawn between 1996 and 2002 and the larger objective […]
The government informed the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday that as many as 26 “misguided youths”— all graduates and postgraduates — joined militancy in Jammu and Kashmir this year. Minister of State for Home Hansraj Gangaram Ahir told Parliament that “the Constitution does not have any provision to deal with anti-nationalists raising slogans against India and engaged in […]
Srinagar: President of India Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday issued a proclamation by virtue of which Jammu and Kashmir came under president’s rule. The rule will come into effect from midnight.
