JAMMU — A balloon in the shape of an aircraft with ‘PIA’ mark was found in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district, officials said on Thursday. On sighting the ‘PIA’ (Pakistan International Airlines)-marked balloon in Sarna, a border village, the locals informed the police, who rushed to the spot and confiscated it, the officials said. Such […]
NEW DELHI — The BJP has won four states, including the politically significant Uttar Pradesh, in the mega elections seen as the semi-final before the 2024 national election. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has also hit gold in Punjab, giving the eight-year-old outfit its second state after Delhi. In Uttarakhand, the BJP has crossed majority […]
JAMMU — Body of a policeman was found under mysterious circumstance inside the rented room of his colleague in Rajouri district on Thursday. Official sources said that the body of the 36-year-old policemen Sgct Ifthar Ahmed son of Manzoor Ahmed of Ari Mendhàr Poonch, presently posted at DPL Rajouri, was found hanging from ceiling of […]
SRINAGAR — An army man was killed and four others injured after a vehicle they were travelling in met with an accident in frontier north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Wednesday afternoon. An official told GNS that an army vehicle carrying personnel from 21 Mahar Regiment turned near Sarkulli, while on way from Machil. Five army […]
ANANTNAG — Eleven students were injured when a bus of Army Goodwill School High Ground Anantnag turned turtle in the south Kashmir district on Thursday. The bus had an accident near Sarnal Kadipora, official sources told GNS. The injured students were shifted to GMC Anantnag and some of them have been identified as Midhat Aadil, […]
SRINAGAR — Bank guard was injured when suspected militants fired upon him in Muran Chowk of Pulwama on Thursday. The militants also fled away with his service rifle, officials said. They said that the militant attacked the bank guard and he suffered injuries in right leg. The bank guard, Abdul Hameed Wani of Tahab, was […]
SRINAGAR — Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kashmir Thursday said that three militants including a foreign militant came to snatch weapon from a policeman guarding the revered shrine of Hazratbal shrine and in a brief shoot-out, one foreign militant has been killed while two managed to flee from the spot. “Three militants including a foreigner […]
SRINAGAR — Three militants including a Pakistani were killed in two different anti-militancy operations in Kashmir valley on Thursday. Two militants were killed and two army personnel were injured in an encounter between government forces and militants at Naina, Batpora village in Pulwama district of South Kashmir while as another was killed in a brief […]
SRINAGAR — Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested a Patwari red-handed inside his house while accepting a bribe in Baghat area of Srinagar. During the raid, the Patwari and his family members misbehaved with the ACB team, prompting ACB to get an FIR lodged against him at the concerned police station. An official from ACB told news […]
SRINAGAR — Authorities on Thursday placed under suspension a forest guard after recovery of illicit timber in Kupwara district of north Kashmir. “Consequent upon receipt of reports regarding seizure of about 90 cfts of Kail timber (sawn), outturn of 03 damaged trees, in compartment 79/NL of Doban Beat of Khurhama Block and prima facie active […]