SRINAGAR — Security forces continued their search for militants in the Dachigam forest here on Wednesday, a day after a Lashkar-e-Taiba militant was killed in an encounter in the area, officials said. According to officials, the security forces halted their search on Tuesday night but maintained a tight cordon in the area. The search for […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Jammu and Kashmir arrested two drug peddlers in Srinagar on Wednesday and recovered brown sugar and heroin from their possession. “A vehicle (Venue) bearing Registration Number JK01AX-7639 was intercepted by a police party of Police Station MR Gunj during naka checking at Syed Mansoor Bridge Zaldagar. The vehicle tried to flee from […]
JAMMU — A 54-year-old forest guard died after falling from a hillock in Ramban district in Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Wednesday. Abdul Gaffar Sohil, a resident of Tabeela village in Banihal, was on duty when he accidentally slipped into a deep gorge near Nachlana late on Tuesday night, they said. Sohil was found […]
JAMMU — Militants hurled two grenades at an Army post in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir early Wednesday, officials said. Only one of the grenades exploded. There were no casualties in the attack. Security forces have launched a search operation to trace the militants, the officials said. Militants lobbed two grenades at an Army […]
SRINAGAR — Cold wave tightened its grip on Kashmir Valley as the minimum temperature dropped to minus 2 degrees Celsius in Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar city on Wednesday. Director of the local Meteorological (MeT) Department, Mukhtar Ahmad told IANS, “Minimum temperature dropped to minus 2 degrees Celsius in Srinagar city today increasing the cold wave. […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Jammu and Kashmir Police attached a residential properties worth over Rs 3 crores of two drug peddlers in Srinagar on Wednesday. “A three-storied residential house of a drug peddler namely Abdul Ahad Bhat son of Mohammad Sultan Bhat resident of Banpora Batamaloo on land bearing Khewat No.137 and Khasra No.294 (Abadi Deh) […]
SRINAGAR — The Counter Intelligence Kashmir (CIK) wing of police on Wednesday carried out raids at the Central Jail here, officials said here. The CIK sleuths cordoned off the Central Jail in the Rainawari area of the city before daybreak and started searching the barracks, they said. The raids come in the backdrop of clashes […]
SRINAGAR — There is a huge gap of nearly 200 MWs to overcome the unscheduled power and distress cuts in Kashmir as at present less than 1500 MWs are available against a total requirement of 1700 MWs. Top officials in the Power Development Department (PDD) told news agency Kashmir News Observer that the local DISCOM […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — A local militant was killed in an encounter between security forces and militants in Dachigam area of Srinagar district in Central Kashmir on Tuesday. According to reports, the encounter broke out after a joint team of security forces, including the J&K Police and CRPF, launched Cordon-and-Search-Operation (CASO) in the upper reaches of […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday directed officials to completely ban re-employment, extensions, additional charges and attachments, except under extraordinary circumstances, by the general administration department. He also called for linking the Samadhan grievance redress system with the Chief Minister’s Public Services Outreach Office, emphasising its potential for public benefit. […]