SRINAGAR — Police in Kashmir capital Srinagar have busted a gang of looters who used to loot houses donning combat uniforms, using dummy weapons and iron rods. Police had received a couple of complaints from West area of city, wherein complainants had claimed that their houses were looted during cordon and search operation by men […]
DOORU — A five-year-old boy was killed in a road accident at Chenigund area of Dooru in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Tuesday afternoon. Official sources told that a minor boy identified as Mohammad Imran Badhana, son of Mohammad Ishaq Badhana of Katli Kathua died after he was hit by a speedy motorcycle at Chenigund […]
HAROON NABI SRINAGAR — Two outsiders from Delhi and Punjab have bought land in Jammu district after the BJP government abrogated Article 370 and scrapped permanent residence laws. However, no outsider has purchased any land or house in Kashmir valley. As per official documents available with Srinagar based news agency Kashmir Dot Com (KDC), Neelam […]
ANANTNAG — Army’s 19 Rashtriya Rifles Fateh Company Dyalgam organised Youth Carrer Counselling programme for youth. The aim of the programme was to motivate the students about their career, and how to prepare for upcoming army recruitments. Youths were aware about various options available in each stream after class 12th. Students were motivated to choose the […]
SRINAGAR — People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) on Tuesday passed a resolution, demanding restoration of Article 370, 35A and the full Statehood to Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh. The conglomerate also stated that the people of the Union Territory are being humiliated and thus must be stopped as its consequences can be dangerous for the […]
BANDIPORA — The security forces on Tuesday busted a militant hideout in Nagmarg forest area of Aloosa in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district, officials said. An official told that based on specific information, Army’s 26-Assam Rifles unit launched a Cordon and Search Operation (CASO) following which a militant hideout was busted in Nagmarg forest area. He […]
NEW DELHI — Former JNU student leader Umar Khalid, arrested under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in the north-east Delhi riots conspiracy case, told a Delhi Court on Monday that there were various contradictions in the police’s claims and called it a “cooked up” case. Khalid, along with several others, has been booked under the […]
UJJAIN (MP) — Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh has said the people booked under the NSA in Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh some days ago for alleged inflammatory sloganeering were shouting ‘qazi sahab zindabad’ and not ‘Pakistan zindabad’. In a tweet on Sunday night, the Rajya Sabha MP said the slogan was tweaked on the basis […]
KOLKATA — India should not get militarily involved in Afghanistan, former IAF chief Arup Raha said on Monday, warning that China and Pakistan will burn their fingers by cosying up to the Taliban. The former Indian Air Force (IAF) air chief marshal said that the Taliban policy of China and Pakistan will backfire on them […]
KUPWARA — Ten hand grenades were recovered during a joint search operation conducted by army’s 160 TA, 17JAK RIF and SOG Kralpora in a residential house in Kralpora, officials said on Monday evening. They said that based on specific input, searches were launched in the residential house of Mohammad Yousaf Mir son of Mohammad Yaseen […]