Islamabad: Pakistan today summoned India’s acting deputy high commissioner over alleged “unprovoked firing” by Indian troops across the Line of Control (LoC) in which an elderly woman was killed. The Foreign Office claimed that a 65-year old woman was killed in Peer Khana village yesterday after Indian troops violated the ceasefire in Kot Kotera Sector. […]
Jammu: Nearly 726 people were detained under Public Safety Act (PSA) in Jammu and Kashmir in the last two years, the government said today. In a written reply to a question in the State Assembly, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said that 525 people were detained under PSA during the year 2016 and all of them […]
Jammu: Minister for Higher Education, Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari today informed the Legislative Assembly that the State Cabinet has recently approved the opening of 17 new Degree Colleges in the State. The locations for setting up of these newly sanctioned colleges are being worked out by the Government and priority is being given to the […]
New Delhi: In an unprecedented move, four senior most judges of the Supreme Court today called a press conference and said the situation in the top court was “not in order” and many “less than desirable” things have taken place. Unless this institution is preserved, “democracy will not survive in this country,” the four judges […]
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir government today said 51 people were killed and over 9,000 injured, including over 6,000 due to pellets, during the eight months- long unrest in Kashmir after the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Burhan Wani in 2016. In a written reply to the question of a National Conference MLA in the […]
Srinagar: The family and friends of alleged Lashkar militant Bilal Ahmad Kawa today staged a protest in Lal Chowk’s Press Colony against his arrest. The family alleged that, he is being made a scapegoat by the Indian authorities. The Delhi Police and Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad arrested one of the suspects at the Delhi airport on […]
Srinagar: With the night-long cloud cover hovering across Jammu and Kashmir, the cold wave conditions throughout the valley were marginally broken much to the relief of the residents. “At minus 14.8 Kargil town recorded the lowest night temperature in the state while it was minus 7.7 in Leh town,” an official of the Met Department […]
Srinagar: India and Pakistan troops on Friday exchanged fire along the Line of Control in Uri sector of Jammu and Kashmir. An Indian Army official said that Pakistan army targeted the Indian positions along the Line of Control in Uri sector which was ‘effectively’ retaliated. “Pakistani troops resorted to unprovoked firing in Kamalkote area of […]
Baramulla: An Army soldier was injured in a mine blast on the Line of Control (LoC) in Uri sector of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. According to official reports an army soldier of 8 Rashtriya Rifles was injured in mine blast during patrolling at Kamalkote area of Uri. He was rushed to Uri hospital where from […]
Jaipur: The status of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir is “temporary”, RSS leader Indresh Kumar said today as he stressed that the occupation of Indian land by China and Pakistan was unconstitutional. India was suffering from Pakistan’s sponsored terrorism and secessionism and over 66,000 people had lost their lives since 1972 due to this, […]