ANANTNAG — A civilian was injured in a grenade blast that took place in Sangam area of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Monday evening. An official told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that militants hurled a grenade towards CRPF camp in Sangam, however, it missed the target and exploded outside the camp, resulting in […]
SRINAGAR — Five persons including three army personnel were injured after an army vehicle collided with a load carrier in north Kashmir’s Handwara. The collision took place in Ganapora area of Kralgund. Local sources said that there was a head on collision between a load carrier (JK09C-7067) and an army vehicle. Both the vehicles suffered […]
JAMMU — A special court here on Monday offered legal aid to JKLF chief Yasin Malik, but he turned it down and again insisted on his physical appearance in the hearing on the killing of four Indian Air Force (IAF) personnel in 1990. Malik appeared in the hearing via video conference from Delhi’s Tihar Jail […]
JAMMU — The number of dead in Rajouri suicide attack rose to five, as another injured soldier succumbed at the military hospital at northern command in Udhampur, officials here said on Monday. On August 11, two militants had attacked an army camp in Rajouri killing four soldiers in a pre-dawn suicide strike that marked the […]
SRINAGAR — Four residential houses were partially damaged in a fire incident in Nundresh Colony A in Bemina area of Srinagar this afternoon. Reports said that four residential houses belonging to Ghulam Qadir Sheikh, Mohd Maqbool Bala and Tariq Ahmad Bala, Nasir Ahmad Farooqi, Abdul Ahad Lone and Parveena Akhtar were partially damaged after fire […]
JAMMU — A rusted grenade was defused by a bomb disposal squad in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, officials said. The grenade was found lying in a dried up stream by some farmers working in their fields nearby at Swankha village in Vijaypur, they said. They informed police and the explosive device […]
JAMMU — Hundreds of protesters on Monday blocked the Jammu-Pathankot National Highway in Samba district after a college student from Jammu and Kashmir was found dead in Punjab, officials said. Twenty-year-old Vaishali, a resident of Madkoli village of Sumb block, went missing on Saturday while returning from Government Degree College in Samba. Her body was […]
SRINAGAR — The Economic Offence Wing of Crime Branch on Monday produced a charge sheet against a man in case pertaining to cheating and grabbing money of a man on pretext of providing admission to his daughter in PG course outside J&K According to a statement, the Economic Offence Wing produced Challan against Wiqar Manzoor […]
SRINAGAR — Weather remained mainly dry in J&K during the last 24 hours as the MeT office said on Monday that partly cloudy weather with light rain at isolated places is likely in the Union Territory in the next 24 hours. ‘Partly cloudy weather with chances of light rain at isolated places in J&K during […]
JAMMU — An intruding militant nabbed on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district was sent as ‘Fidayeen’ (suicide bomber) by the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). Army soldiers noticed suspicious movement in the Sehar Makri area of Nowshera sector Sunday evening. ‘After being challenged, the militant started running back towards the Pakistani side […]