SRINAGAR — The search operation to track down two local terrorists of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba entered its fourth day in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district on Tuesday, with security forces resuming combing operations after an overnight pause, officials said. The searches resumed at daybreak after being suspended overnight. The two terrorists were first spotted by […]
JAMMU — A search operation was launched early Monday after a suspected Pakistani drone was sighted over a forward village along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district, officials said. The drone-like object, fitted with a blinking light, was observed over the forward villages of Meenka and Beripattan in the Sunderbani […]
SRINAGAR — The operation in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district to trace two local terrorists of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba outfit, who were believed to be trapped in a dense orchard, entered the third day on Monday, officials said. The searches resumed at day break after nightlong suspension to track down the two terrorists who were […]
SRINAGAR — The Army on Saturday launched a major counter-terrorist operation in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district after two local terrorists belonging to the banned outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba were cornered in a dense orchard, officials said on Saturday. The operation was launched on Friday afternoon after the two terrorists were spotted by an Army camera installed […]
JAMMU — Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, Chief Secretary Atal Dulloo and General Officer Commanding of the White Knight Corps, Lieutenant General P K Mishra, on Sunday paid homage to Lieutenant Beereshwar Goswami, who died while undertaking operational duties in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir. Lieutenant Goswami died after slipping into a deep gorge during […]
JAMMU — An army officer died after slipping in a mountainous area and falling into a deep gorge during an anti-terror operation in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Saturday evening, officials said. The officer, a lieutenant, was part of the security forces engaged in Operation Sheruwali, which entered its 15th day. Operation Sheruwali is […]
ANANTNAG — The body of a Srinagar man, who was swept away while attempting to rescue his son in the Lidder River near Pahalgam, was retrieved from the Aishmuqam area on Friday, six days after the incident. An official told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that the body of Muhammad Ashraf Mir (42), a […]
JAMMU — Security forces on Sunday intensified search operations and strengthened the cordon in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district with the deployment of additional troops to track down suspected terrorists believed to be hiding in the area, officials said. They said the operation in the Dorimal-Gambhir Moghla belt was expanded following a brief encounter between […]
JAMMU — Security forces on Tuesday launched cordon and search operations along border areas and the mountainous hinterland of Poonch and Kishtwar districts of Jammu and Kashmir as part of heightened anti-terror measures, officials said. Acting on inputs about the presence of two terrorist groups operating in the Doda-Kishtwar forest areas, security forces launched a […]
JAMMU — Security forces widened the area of the search operation to track down terrorists hiding in the forest belt of Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district on Monday, officials said. The cordon and search operation, which entered its second day, was launched in the Majalta forests after two terrorists reportedly took food from a house […]