Srinagar-Jammu highway briefly closed due to landslides

Jammu-Srinagar National Highway was briefly closed for traffic following multiple landslides triggered by incessant rains on Moday. “Multiple landslides at Mehar and Seeri and triggered shooting of stones from a hillock at Panthyal, which forced closure of the highway early this morning,” a spokesman of the traffic control room said. He said men and machines […]

India, Pak exchange gunfire in Nowshera sector

ndian and Pakistani troops on Monday exchanged firing by light weapons and medium machine guns (MMG)in Nowshera sector in Rajouri district, reports said.  “The Pakistani Army, once again, violated ceasefire on Sunday night along the Line of Control (LoC) in Baba Khori area of sector Nowshera, Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir,”  defence sources was […]

NIA raids ancestral home of Devender Singh

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday raided the ancestral home of Jammu and Kashmir advocate Devender Singh Behal in Nowshera town of Rajouri district. Behal was arrested here a day earlier by the NIA over his alleged links with Hurriyat (G) chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani. The NIA on Sunday raided Behal’s home in […]

Gunmen loot bank in Arwani Bijbehara 

Unidentified gunmen targeted a branch of the state-run Jammu and Kashmir Bank at Arwani area of south Kashmir’s Bijbehara tehsil on Monday and decamped with cash in lakhs. According to sources, the gunmen looted around more than INR 5 lakh in cash and damaged some computers before thrashing the bank employees. As per sources, around 12 […]

School building catches fire in Beerwah

A school building in Beerwah area of Budgam district on Monday caught fire. Dozens of students had a narrow escape when a Boys Middle School caught fire during the working hours. The property was however destroyed after fire engulfed Govt Boy’s Middle School, Beerwah, school officials said. The classes in the school were going on […]

Protest halts traffic on Sgr-Gulmarg highway near Narbal

Hundreds of vehicles were stranded on both sides of the Srinagar-Gulmarg highway on Monday after people at Kawoosa Narbal, staged protest against drinking water scarcity in the area. Scores of protesters staged a sit in on the highway alleging that they were without drinking water in the present humid days and their women folk have […]

Pulwama, Anantnag shuts to mourn the death of local militants

Complete shutdown is being observed in parts of south Kashmir’s Pulwama and Anantnag districts to mourn the death of local militants. As per sources complete shutdown is being observed in Tahab area and Gulzar pora area of Pulwama district against the killing of a local militant Shariq Ahmad Sheikh. Same kind of reports are from […]

Minor killed, another injured in Sopore road accident

A minor was killed and another injured in road accident early morning today at Duroo Zainageer area of north Kashmir’s Sopore town.   According to reports a boy identified as Junaid Sultan son of Mohd Sultan Hajam a resident of Hardishiva along with his brother were hit by a Santro car injuring them. They were […]