Srinagar: Suspected militants in the wee hours of Friday abducted 4 policemen from there homes in south Kashmir’s Shopian district. The abducted policemen include three SPO’s and one constable. Sources identified the three SPO’s as Tajaullah Lone, Firdous Ahmad Kuchay and Kulwat Singh all residents of Batagund village and the constable as Nisar Ahmad, a […]
Srinagar: Government forces on Thursday killed at least two militants in a gunfight in Sokbabun area of Sumlar village in Bandipora district. Acting on a specific input about the presence of militants in the Sokbabun village, Police officials said that Army’s 14 RR, SOG of J&K police and CRPF launched joint Cordon and Search Operation. […]
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister of India Sushma Swaraj will be meeting her counterpart in Pakistan Shah Mehmood Qureshi on the sidelines of the upcoming United Nations General Assembly in New York. Confirming the development, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said: “I can confirm that on the request of the Pakistani side, a meeting […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Thursday said that the minor boy who was murdered in Ganderbal was a case of “revenge killing”. Police said that the father of the boy had rejected killer’s proposal to marry his daughter. On September 17, the minor boy Faisal Misgar of Busarbugh Alestang had gone missing from […]
New Delhi: The Ordinance to make Triple Talaq a punishable offence has come into force with President Ram Nath Kovind giving his assent to it, sources said on Wednesday. The President late on Wednesday night gave his approval to the ordinance, passed by the Union Cabinet earlier in the day. With the assent of the […]
Srinagar: The Pakistan Post has issued 20 “commemorative” postage stamps portraying slain Kashmiri militants and some others as “victims of atrocities by Indian troops in Kashmir”. A senior official of Pakistan Post told Times of India that the stamps — many with disturbing images — were issued from its headquarters in Karachi on July 24 to express Pakistan’s […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir Congress on Wednesday said that the party will participate in the upcoming Municipal and Panchayat elections. Addressing a press conference, JKPCC chief Gulam Ahmad Mir said that the party will not stay away from the elections to “keep the ground open for the communal forces but we will fight with […]
Srinagar: Pakistan Cricket Team’s flamboyant allrounder and former skipper Shahid Afridi on Tuesday said that the “people of Kashmir should be allowed to decide their destiny”. During a joint live show of ARY News of Pakistan and ABP News of India, while commenting on Wednesday’s clash between the arch-rivals India and Pakistan, Afridi along with […]
Srinagar: The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday said that a war like situation has been created in Jammu and Kashmir ahead of the polls. The party has already announced the boycott of the polls citing ambiguity of New Delhi over Article 35-A. PDP spokesperson Rafi Ahmad Mir while speaking to a news gathering agency […]
Srinagar: The recording of a phone call between 16-year-old Zahid Ahmad Mir, one of five militants killed last Saturday in Kulgam, and his family including mother has gone viral on social networking sites. During the over-nine-minute-call the family members of the militant are repeatedly heard telling the son not to surrender and continue fighting the […]
