JAMMU — The truck which was carrying the four heavily armed militants, who were killed by security forces on Wednesday morning, had a fake registration plate and tampered engine and chassis numbers, Additional Director General of Police, Jammu Zone, Mukesh Singh said. The truck loaded with husk was intercepted near Sidhra’s Tawi bridge checking point […]
JAMMU — The retiring room of the vice chairperson of the Khadi and Village Industries Board Hina Shafi Bhat was damaged in a fire that broke out in the main building of the Civil Secretariat in Jammu on Wednesday. The fire started at the room on the top floor of the multi-floor building in the […]
KUPWARA — A 75-year-old under trial prisoner died on intervening Tuesday and Wednesday night in North Kashmir’s Kupwara district. Quoting an official news agency GNS reported that one Mohammad Maqbool Khan, son of Abdul Gaffar Khan, resident of Kakroosa Villgam, already on medication, took seriously ill and was moved to SDH Kupwara, where he died […]
BANIHAL — Four of a family were found dead under ‘mysterious circumstances’ in Banihal area of Ramban district on Wednesday. Quoting an official news agency KNO reported that four bodies of a family including three siblings, were found inside the house in Checknarwa Chopan Pora area of Banihal. The dead family members includes mother, two […]
SRINAGAR — The intense cold gripped Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh while dense fog affected the normal life in Jammu on Wednesday morning. “Mainly a clear sky with cold and dry weather is likely to continue in Ladakh and J&K during the next 24 hours,” IANS quoted an official of the Meteorological Department office as […]
JAMMU — Four militants were killed in a brief gunfight that ensued between government forces and militants at Sidhra area in Jammu on Wednesday. Reports said a joint team of government forces including Indian Army, J&K Police and CRPF had launched Cordon-and-Search-Operation (CASO) at Sidhra area in Jammu following the inputs about presence of militants […]
JAMMU — A gunfight ensues between government forces and militants at Sidhra area in Jammu on Wednesday. Reports said a joint team of government forces including Indian Army, J&K Police and CRPF had launched Cordon-and-Search-Operation (CASO) at Sidhra area in Jammu following the inputs about presence of militants in the area. They said that as […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir Students Association has written to Union Home Minister Amit Shah over alleged harassment of Kashmiri students at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in Uttar Pradesh. The student body alleged the Kashmiri students are facing a hostile culture at AMU, adding that seven students have been injured in the last three […]
JAMMU — Protesting Kashmiri Pandit employees have approached the Central Administrative Tribunal against a Jammu and Kashmir administration order stating those granted employment under the prime minister’s special package cannot be transferred. The move to approach the CAT’s Srinagar bench comes days after Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha announced that the striking employees […]
BARAMULLA — Authorities in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district have ordered imposition of section 144 in Pattan areas in wake of the programme by the Shia association at Imambarah Kanterbugh. The decision has been taken to prevent any imminent danger to life and property, an order reads. An order issued by District Magistrate Baramulla, said, it […]