Baramulla: Javid Ahmad, Correspondent for Srinagar-based daily English newspaper Rising Kashmir, died of heart attack on Thursday afternoon while on way to Srinagar from his home in Baramulla district. Ahmad had been recently married on April 9 and is survived by his wife, parents, two sisters, and a younger brother. Local sources said that Javid […]
Baramulla: Defence Correspondent at the daily Rising Kashmir, Javid Ahmad died of heart attack Thursday afternoon in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Javid, a resident of Watergam Rafiabad Baramulla was on his way to Srinagar when he suddenly fell unconscious after sufferring a massive heart attack at Pattan, sources told Kashmir Reader. He was rushed […]
Baramulla: Deputy Commissioner (DC) Baramulla Dr Gulam Nabi Itoo on Wednesday said that all the religious places and shrines will be reopened across the district in a phased manner. Talking to reporters at a press conference here, the deputy commissioner appealed to the general public to follow guidelines as well as SOPs while visiting religious […]
BARAMULLA: Fruit growers, traders and transporters associated with the fruit industry staged a protest on Tuesday here at fruit Mandi Sopore in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district against the unnecessary stopping of fruit trucks on Srinagar Jammu highway by the government forces in the name of carrying checks. The fruit growers, traders holding placards and banners […]
Kupwara: Troops of India and Pakistan on Monday traded heavy gunfire and shelling across the Line of Control (LoC) in Machil sector of frontier Kupwara district. Official sources said that Pakistani rangers violated the ceasefire in Machil sector and targeted several Indian army posts, to which the Indian Army retaliated and the exchange of firing […]
BARAMULLA: Sopore police on Monday said that they have solved a theft case of the town and arrested an accused. In a statement police district Sopore said that,on September 4 this month police station Sopore received information that during intervening night two shops of main market sopore were looted and locks of many others were […]
Baramulla: The government of Jammu and Kashmir started the commercial operation of Gulmarg Gandola on Sunday. On the very first day 106 tourists enjoy the phase one ride and they visited Kangdori on Saturday, officials said. They said among the 106 tourists 36 were non local tourists while as 70 were locals. They added that […]
BARAMULLA: Police on Saturday spotted an old rusty shell in a Handwara village and later defused it. Officials said that some local people of Wadora village of Handwara spotted an old rusty shell along the banks of a local stream and informed the Handwara police accordingly who reached the spot and defused it successfully. They […]
BARAMULLA: After four days of hectic search, the teams of police and SDRF fished out the body of a minor boy in Boniyar, area of Uri in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Saturday who had drowned in river Jhelum. Officials said that a team of SDRF and police spotted the dead body of the boy […]
Baramulla: Thousands of people including relatives, friends, lawyers, journalists, activists and civil society figures from across Kashmir on Friday visited Sheikhpora village in Tangmarg where Advocate Babar Qadri was laid to rest on Thursday night. The people offered special prayers at the grave of Qadri and offered their condolences to the family. Qadri was shot […]