NEW DELHI — Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday reviewed the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir following several targeted killings, including of Kashmiri Pandits, in the union territory, officials said. The high-level meeting, attended Lt Gov Manoj Sinha, Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla as well as the heads of intelligence and security agencies, […]
VESSU (QAZIGUND) — Divisional Commissioner Kashmir P K Pole Tuesday visited the protesting Kashmiri Pandits at Vessu in southern area of Qazigund and assured them that “all the service related issues will be resolved within a week’s time” while as other demands will be taken up with top officials. Pole, who was accompanied by IGP […]
SRINAGAR — Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kashmir Tuesday met protesting KPs at Budgam and urged them not to think of leaving Kashmir as the “same was plans of militants and their masters across” that has to be foiled by all means. He assured KPs of every help and promised them “better and enhanced security […]
SRINAGAR — Weather remained partly cloudy in Jammu and Kashmir in the past 24 hours even as the MeT department forecast the same to continue on Tuesday. “Partly cloudy weather with rain at isolated places is likely in J&K during the next 24 hours”, an official of the MeT department said. Srinagar registered 12.5 degrees […]
SRINAGAR — Security Forces on Monday arrested two active hybrid militants of LeT along with arms and ammunition in Sopore town of Baramulla district. An official told that a joint team of Police, Army’s 22 RR and CRPF’s 179 Bn during a Naka arrested two active hybrid militant at Fruit Mandi crossing of Sopore town. […]
SRINAGAR — Hundreds of families from Bakerwal community along with their livestock returned to high-altitude meadows of Kashmir after a break of two years of Covid pandemic. The annual migration of the pastoral community was affected because of the pandemic. In April, they travel by foot for weeks together along with their livestock through mountains […]
NEW DELHI — India on Monday slammed the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for its “unwarranted” comments on the delimitation exercise in Jammu and Kashmir and asked the grouping to refrain from carrying out its “communal agenda” at the behest of one country, in an oblique reference to Pakistan. India’s strong reaction came after the […]
GANDERBAL — A 17-year-old youth was found hanging in Kralampora Kangan area of central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Monday evening, official said. An official said that the a youth namely Umar Tariq S/o Tariq Ahmad R/o Kralampora Kangan was found hanging from a ceiling fan by his family members at his home this evening. A […]
BANDIPORA — Police on Monday claimed to have busted a militant module of Lashker-e-Taiba by arresting seven militants and their associates including a woman in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district. “During the course of investigation of cases regarding the recent Bandipora encounters, Police along security forces busted a militant module of LeT by arresting an active […]
SRINAGAR — Protests by Kashmiri Pandits over the killing of Rahul Bhat by militants inside his office last week continued in Ganderbal and Anantnag districts of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, officials said. Scores of Kashmiri Pandits assembled at Tulmulla in Ganderbal district to protest against the killing of their community member, the officials said. […]