JAMMU — Police and other security forces on Wednesday launched a massive search operation along the International Border (IB) in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir to sanitize the border villages ahead of Amarnath Yatra next month, officials said. The joint operation by police, Army, BSF and CRPF is underway at village Glad and adjoining […]
SRINAGAR — PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday said people of Jammu and Kashmir will have to unite to fight back the attack on their dignity and identity. “There is no way out because of the circumstances Jammu and Kashmir is going through after August 2019, these circumstances demand that we unite. People from all […]
ANANTNAG — Authorities on Wednesday destroyed the poppy/bhang crops worth lakhs at Soafshali area of Kokernag Tehsil in Anantnag district in South Kashmir. A team of Revenue officials of Tehsil Kokernag and officials from Excise department Anantnag today conducted a joint and extensive poppy/bhang crop destruction drive at Soafshali Tehsil Kokernag. Poppy/bhang was destroyed on […]
ANANTNAG — An encounter breaks out between government forces and militants at Marhama village in Bijbehara town of Anantnag district in South Kashmir on Wednesday. It is the second encounter in Kashmir valley today. Reports said a joint team of government forces including Indian Army, J&K Police and CRPF had launched Cordon-and-Search-Operation (CASO) at Marhama […]
SRINAGAR — An encounter breaks out between government forces and militants at Salinder forest area of Bandipora district in North Kashmir on Wednesday. Reports said a joint team of government forces including Indian Army, J&K Police and CRPF had launched Cordon-and-Search-Operation (CASO) at Salinder forest following the inputs about presence of militants in the area. […]
PULWAMA — A 22-year-old girl on Wednesday allegedly took her life in Drusoo area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Sources told news agency Kashmir Dot Com that a girl (name withheld) hailing from Pulwama’s Drusoo area died after hanging herself at home. The girl, however, was taken to a nearby hospital by her parents where […]
SRINAGAR — PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday said the situation in Sri Lanka should serve as a wake up call for India as the country was “treading the same path” as the neighbouring country. Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned as Sri Lanka’s prime minister on Monday amid unprecedented economic turmoil in the country, hours after his […]
NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court on Wednesday, in a historic decision, put a stay on the sedition law and ruled that no new FIRs will be lodged under this sedition law until the Centre reexamines the provisions of this British-era law. Dictating the order, Chief Justice of India NV Ramana said it will be […]
BARAMULLA — Minister of State (MoS) for Cooperation and Development of North Eastern Region Government of India, BL Verma, on Wednesday said that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is fighting for justice to Kashmiri Pandits, who had been victimized in Jammu and Kashmir. Speaking at Dak Banglow Baramulla, Verma said that BJP is fighting hard for […]
BUDGAM — A man was killed on Wednesday after he fell down from moving vehicle in Humhama area of Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. An official said that a man was, traveling from Budgam to Srinagar when he fell down from Bus bearing registration number JK01D 8652. He said locals immediately shifted him to SMHS hospital […]