JAMMU — PDP president Mehbooba Mufti was on Sunday served a show cause notice, seeking an explanation for allegedly using a child to seek votes during campaigning for Lok Sabha polls in Rajouri district. Rajouri is part of Anantnag parliamentary constituency which is going to polls in the sixth phase on May 25. Mehbooba, a […]
JAMMU — An alleged hardcore criminal was detained under the Public Safety Act (PSA) here on Sunday, police said. Raman Kumar, a resident of Arnia’s Kathar village, has been booked under the PSA former his alleged involvement in criminal activities in an organised manner, thus posing a threat to public peace and order, a police […]
JAMMU — Four people have been arrested for killing a 45-year-old man around five months ago in a remote village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district, police said on Sunday. Mohd Rafiq was found dead outside Jia Baggo Dass village in the district’s Chasana area on December 9, they said. The case was solved with […]
JAMMU — Several people were detained for questioning on Sunday as a massive search operation for militants behind the Indian Air Force (IAF) convoy attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district entered the second day, officials said. Additional Director General of Police, Jammu, Anand Jain and senior officers of the Army and intelligence agencies visited […]
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday announced that his government has decided to close Al Jazeera channel’s operations in the country. “The government headed by me unanimously decided: the incitement channel Al Jazeera will be closed in Israel,” Netanyahu posted on X, thanking his Minister of Communications, Shlomo Karhi. Last month, Netanyahu […]
JAMMU — The operation to track down the militants behind the attack on an Indian Air Force (IAF) convoy in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district entered its second day on Sunday. Five IAF personnel were injured in the attack on Saturday evening near Shahsitar in the district’s Surankote area and one of them succumbed to […]
SRINAGAR — The people of Jammu and Kashmir will have to decide if their lives have improved after the abrogation of Article 370, National Conference leader Omar Abdullah said on Saturday. Addressing workers’ conventions, public gatherings, road shows and rallies at 24 places in the Beerwah assembly segment of Budgam district, Abdullah — the National […]
SRINAGAR — People’s Conference chief Sajad Lone on Saturday demanded that National Conference leader Omar Abdullah prove his allegation that the separatist-turned-mainstream politician is collaborating with the BJP. Lone also demanded an apology from Abdullah if he failed to prove the allegation. The separatist-turned-politician is pitted against Abdullah from the Baramulla seat in north Kashmir. […]
JAMMU — One soldier was killed and four were injured as militants ambushed an Indian Air Force (IAF) convoy in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Saturday. Officials said five security personnel were injured, two of them critically, when four militants opened fire on IAF vehicles moving towards Sanai Top in Poonch’s Surankot area in […]
ANANTNAG — An army man was killed and eight others were injured on Saturday when their vehicle skidded off the road and fell in a gorge in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag, officials said. The accident occurred in the Verinag area of the South Kashmir district. Nine army personnel were injured and rushed to the hospital, […]