GANDERBAL — A conductor of JCB died while driver and another person were injured after it skidded off the road at Kokran Bridge on Zoji La in Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on Wednesday. An official told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that a JCB skidded off the road when it was coming from Kargil […]
SRINAGAR — The Meteorological department here predicted light rain and snow at isolated places in Jammu and Kashmir during the next 24 hours. “Light rain/snow at isolated places is likely to occur in J&K during the next 24 hours,” an official of the MeT department said on Wednesday. The weather was mainly cloudy in the […]
TITHWAL (KUPWARA) — A neat white line drawn in the middle of a suspension bridge that sits right on the Line of Control separates the border village of India’s Tithwal and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). The bridge has seen wars and tumultuous phases of history in the heavily militarised region. With a ceasefire understanding reached between […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Police have averted a major tragedy by arresting three hybrid militants from whose possession a 10-kg IED and two hand grenades were recovered on Tuesday. A police official told that Police arrested two hybrid militants identified as Aamir Mushtaq Dar S/o Mushtaq Ahmad Dar R/o Iqbalabad Sozaith Budgam and Kabil […]
SRINAGAR — Four militants, including a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) Commander and a Pakistani militant were killed in two different encounters in South Kashmir on Tuesday. Reports said, on Tuesday afternoon, an encounter broke out between government forces and militants at Semthan village in Bijbehara town of Anantnag district in which a local militant was killed. Later […]
SRINAGAR — An encounter breaks out between government forces and militants at Khandipora village in Awantipora town of Pulwama district in South Kashmir on Tuesday. Reports said a joint team of government forces including Indian Army, J&K Police and CRPF had launched Cordon-and-Search-Operation (CASO) at Khandipora village in Awantipora town of Pulwama district following the […]
SRINAGAR — A 32-year-old “mentally unsound” man was seriously injured after being hit by a train around Mazhoom Pattan section in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Tuesday. Official sources told GNS that the man identified as Nazeer Ahmad Dar of Aarampora village of the area lost both of his feet in the incident. He was […]
SRINAGAR — An encounter breaks out between government forces and militants at Semthan village in Bijbehara town of Anantnag district in South Kashmir on Tuesday Reports said a joint team of government forces including Indian Army, J&K Police and CRPF had launched Cordon-and-Search-Operation (CASO) at Semthan village in Bijbehara town of Anantnag district following the […]
SRINAGAR — Weather was cloudy in J&K, and the MeT office said on Tuesday that rain and snow was likely during the next 24 hours. “Generally cloudy with possibility of light to moderate rain/snowfall (1-2 inches over middle and higher reaches). “No snow in the plains. On November 2 and 3rd it is partly to […]
SRINAGAR — The Srinagar-Leh road was on Tuesday closer for vehicular movement after fresh snowfall at Zoji La Pass, officials said. An official told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that the road has been closed keeping in view the slippery condition of the road. Meanwhile, Jammu and Kashmir police traffic on its official Twitter […]