SRINAGAR (KIMS) — After the Shab-e-Qadr prayers, authorities prohibited Juma-Tul-Vida prayers at the historic Jama Masjid in Srinagar, preventing thousands from offering congregational prayers on the last Friday of Ramadan. “After Shab-e-Qadr, Jama Masjid Srinagar continues to remain closed even today on Juma-Tul-Vida, when lakhs of people eagerly await the whole year to offer congregational […]
JAMMU — The body of another policeman was sighted using a drone on Friday near the spot where a gunfight took place earlier in a remote forested area in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. This is the fourth cop to be have died in the gunfight in which three terrorists are also […]
JAMMU — Security forces on Friday launched a search operation following reports of movement of suspected individuals in a forest in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district, officials said. A joint team comprising police, Army, and CRPF began the operation in the forested area of Reasi this morning, they added. Backed by surveillance equipment, the operation […]
SRINAGAR — Shab-e-Qadar, the night of power and blessings, was observed across Kashmir Valley with religious fervour as the revered Hazratbal Shrine in the summer capital here witnessed the largest congregation of devotees, officials said on Friday. As part of the festivities, and their religious duties, Muslims thronged mosques and shrines across the valley Thursday […]
JAMMU — Security forces on Friday resumed an anti-terrorist operation in a remote forested area in the Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, a day after three terrorists and an equal number of policemen were killed in an encounter there, officials said. Seven others, including an officer, were injured in a gunbattle on Thursday. After […]
JAMMU — The Election Commission of India has announced a special summary revision of voter lists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Nagrota and Budgam assembly constituencies where bye-elections are due shortly. The revision will be based on April 1, 2025, as the qualifying date, ahead of the upcoming bye-elections, said a notification issued by the Election […]
JAMMU — Three militants and an equal number of policemen were killed and seven others including a deputy superintendent of police injured in a fierce day-long gunfight in a remote forested area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district, officials said on Thursday. The encounter started around 8 am amid intensified operations led by Jammu and […]
SRINAGAR — National Conference (NC) MLA from Jammu and Kashmir’s Budhal constituency Javid Iqbal Choudhary on Thursday called for a judicial probe or an investigation by a central agency into the disappearance and deaths of two Gujjar men in Kulgam. Referring to the disappearance and deaths of people in Kulgam and the mysterious deaths of […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Thursday condemned the prohibition of night-long Shab-e-Qadr prayers at the historic Jama Masjid in Srinagar, calling it “regrettable and condemnable.” “The authorities have conveyed to the Auqaf that the historic Jama Masjid in Srinagar will remain closed for people on the revered night of Shab-e-Qadr,” he said in […]
JAMMU — A fierce gun battle in a remote forested area of Kathua district has left two terrorists dead and five security personnel injured as the security forces intensified their operation to neutralise an infiltrating group of about five militants, officials said on Thursday. It was not immediately clear whether it was the same group […]