BARAMULLA — Three Lashkar-i-Toiba (LeT) militants including a top Commander were killed and five armed personnel including a policeman were injured in an encounter between government forces and militants at Malwah, Pariswani area of Baramulla district in North Kashmir on Thursday. Reports said a joint team of government forces including Indian Army, J&K Police and […]
SRINAGAR — Weather remained inclement with rain and thunder in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday as the Met Department forecast freaky weather with rain, thunder and gusty winds during the next 24 hours. “Today, freaky weather, cloudy with occasional rain, thunderstorm with gusty winds, hail storm at isolated places and snowfall over higher reaches is […]
BARAMULLA — An encounter breaks out between government forces and militants at Malwah, Pariswani area of Baramulla district in North Kashmir on Thursday. Reports said a joint team of government forces including Indian Army, J&K Police and CRPF had launched Cordon-and-Search-Operation (CASO) at Malwah, Pariswani following the inputs about presence of militants in the area. […]
SRINAGAR — Residents of Abanshah area of Parimpora in Srinagar outskirts on Wednesday protested against the Public Health Engineering (PHE) over shortage of water supply and blocked traffic on Srinagar-Bandipora highway. Reports reaching news agency Kashmir Dot Com said that both men and women gathered at Abanshah, Parimpora and raised slogans against the PHE for […]
SRINAGAR — Scores of men and women staged a protest in Chanapora uptown area of Srinagar on Wednesday against the installation of smart electric meters in their area. The protesting women blocked the road and raised the slogans against the Power Development Department (PDD) and the installation of the smart meters, which as per them […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Government on Wednesday ordered an increase of 3% dearness allowances of the government employees working in regular pay levels under 7th Pay Commission recommendations. An per an order, issued by Finance department, an existing rate of DA per month for employees was 31% of basic pay and has been increased […]
SRINAGAR — Weather remained cloudy with scattered light rain on Wednesday as the MeT department forecast widespread light/moderate rain in J&K during the next 24 hours. “Widespread light/moderate rain is likely to occur in J&K during the next 24 hours”, an official of the MeT department said. Srinagar recorded 9.6 degrees Celsius, Pahalgam 3.6 and […]
SRINAGAR — Night flight operations will start from Srinagar and Jammu airports from Thursday as the two airports have been given approval for night parking facilities by the competent authority. Officials at the two airports said that ‘Go Airlines’ will park two A-320 NEO aircrafts each at Jammu and Srinagar airports. “This is to ensure […]
NEW DELHI — Sheikh Sajad alias Sajjad Gul, a Lashkar-i-Toiba (LeT) Commander from Rose Avenue Colony HMT Shalteng in Srinagar was designated as a terrorist by the Centre on Tuesday. The Union home ministry said Gul is absconding in a case pertaining to recovery of arms and ammunition in Jammu and Kashmir and “has been […]
KUPWARA — A huge cache of arms and ammunition was recovered by a team of Police and Army in Karnah area of North Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Tuesday. A police spokesperson said that ten pistols, seventeen pistol magazines, 54 pistol rounds and five grenades were recovered by Police and Army during a search operation in […]