JAMMU — A forest fire on Thursday triggered mine blasts along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, officials said. There were no casualties or injuries, they said. The forest fire in the forward areas of Gursai, Ucchad, and Prambranar, as well as the border belts, has been raging for the […]
SRINAGAR — The longest surviving militant of the Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) outfit was among the 5 militants killed on Thursday in a fierce encounter with the joint security forces in J&K’s Kulgam district, officials said. “Farooq Nali, the longest surviving HM militant, was killed today along with four others of the same outfit in a […]
JAMMU — The Jammu and Kashmir Congress on Thursday held a protest march to demand the resignation of Home Minister Amit Shah for his remarks in the Rajya Sabha about B R Ambedkar, which the party claimed were an “insult” to the leader. The party also demanded that Shah publicly apologize for his comments, both […]
KABUL — Two highway crashes in southeastern Afghanistan have killed a combined total of 50 people and injured 76, a government spokesman said Thursday. One was a collision between a passenger bus and an oil tanker on the Kabul-Kandahar highway late Wednesday, said Hafiz Omar, a spokesman for the governor of Ghazni province. The other […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Conference (JKPC) President and Handwara MLA Sajad Lone has condemned the removal of a chapter based on the life of Kashmiri saint Sheikh Noor-Ud-Din Wali from Class 9 textbooks by Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education (BOSE), a JKPC statement said on Thursday. Calling it “pure cultural terrorism” […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Jammu and Kashmir Police solved a burglary case within 24 hours in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, on Thursday. Two individuals involved in the burglary were arrested, and the stolen property was recovered. “A written complaint was lodged by Naseer Ahmad Bhat, son of Ghulam Ahmad Bhat, on December […]
ISLAMABAD — At least 40 Pakistanis lost their lives in incidents of capsizing of three boats near Greece, according to a report from the Pakistani Embassy in Athens. The embassy report mentioned bodies of 35 people remain missing, with little to no hope of survival, while five bodies have been retrieved. According to the report, […]
ISLAMABAD — Security forces gunned down 11 terrorists in three separate operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Wednesday. In a statement, the military’s media wing said that the operations were conducted in different areas of the province between December 17 and 18. It said that an intelligence based operation […]
SRINAGAR — At minus 6 degrees Celsius on Thursday, Jammu and Kashmir’s (J&K) Srinagar city recorded the lowest minimum temperature of the season so far as severe cold swept across the Valley. MET Department officials said that the minimum temperature dropped to minus 6 degrees Celsius on Thursday in Srinagar city, which is the lowest […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Wednesday highlighted the importance of understanding history to develop thinking and decision-making capabilities for building a better future and stressed the need to reconnect with the roots to gain clarity in vision and set meaningful goals for the future. The LG, who unveiled the silver […]