Two lakh migrant birds land in Kashmir wetlands

Two lakh migrant birds land in Kashmir wetlands

Baramulla: Migrant birds that visit Kashmir valley every winter have started their arrival in the past few days. Wildlife officials say that about two lakh migrant birds including Greylag Geese, Common teals, Mallards, Crested Pochards, Gadwalls and Coots have landed in the wetlands of Kashmir. The wetlands where the birds are landing include Hokersar, which […]

Army post hit by avalanche in Kupwara, soldier killed, two injured

Army post hit by avalanche in Kupwara, soldier killed, two injured

Kupwara: An army soldier was killed while two others were injured when their post was hit by an avalanche in Karnah sector along the Line of Control (LoC) in frontier district Kupwara late Tuesday evening. Officials said that the avalanche hit Roshan post of the Indian army in Karnah sector on Tuesday at around 8 […]

Power crisis, Sheeri residents hit the streets

Power crisis, Sheeri residents hit the streets

BARAMULLA: Scores of people of Sheeri area of Baramulla on Tuesday hit the streets and staged a protest demonstration against the power development department (PDD) over shortage of electricity in the area. Protesting people including the traders, men and women of the area blocked the Srinagar Muzaffarabad national highway at main market Sheeri for some […]

Cross-border firing in Kupwara creates panic

Cross-border firing in Kupwara creates panic

Baramulla: Panic broke out in Karnah area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Monday as the armies of India and Pakistan again fired guns and mortar shells at each other across the Line of Control (LoC). Officials said that the Pakistani army violated the ceasefire in Karnah-Tangdar sector to which the Indian army gave a […]

Live shell defused in Uri village

Live shell defused in Uri village

Inform police about any live shells: Officials BARAMULLA: Bomb disposal squad (BDS) of the army on Monday detonated an unexploded shell in Kamalkote village of Uri in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district and successfully destroyed it. This after heavy gunfight and mortar shelling between the armies of India and Pakistan last Friday in which two civilians […]

Rafique Rather elected EJAC president

Rafique Rather elected EJAC president

BARAMULLA: Senior trade union leader and chairman JK teachers forum Mohammad Rafique Rather a resident of north Kashmir’s Baramulla has been elected as president employees joint action committee (EJAC) which the elections held on Monday. In a statement to press, EJAC said that election committee nominated by EJAC held the election on 16th November 2020, […]

Internet restored in Kupwara

Internet restored in Kupwara

Baramulla: Mobile internet was restored in north Kashmir’s Kupwara on Sunday after three days blockade massive shelling and firing erupted along the Line of Control. Internet service was restored in the afternoon, locals confirmed. Internet was blocked in Kupwara on Friday after armies of India and Pakistan exchanged heavy gunfire and mortar shelling along the […]

Cross-border firing stops in north Kashmir

Cross-border firing stops in north Kashmir

Baramulla: Hours after four civilians, four army soldiers, and an officer of the Border Security Force (BSF) were killed in cross-border firing and shelling in Uri, Gurez, Karnah, and Tangdar sectors, the guns fell silent along the Line of Control (LoC) in north Kashmir on Friday night. Locals said the four civilians killed on Friday, […]

Senior journalist of Baramulla Sheikh Bashir Ahmad passes away

BARAMULLA: Senior journalist of Baramulla Sheikh Bashir Ahmad known as Bashir Alsafa passed away on Saturday morning at his residence at Kanlibagh Baramulla. He was sick for the past few days and died two months after her wife passed away. The Baramulla Working Journalist Association (BWJA) expressed deep shock and grief at the demise of […]

LoC on boil across north Kashmir

LoC on boil across north Kashmir

4 army soldiers, BSF officer, 4 civilians killed Heavy shelling and gunfire in Uri, Kupwara, Handwara, Bandipora villages 5 soldiers from Maharashtra injured in Gurez, 2 succumb One-and-a-half year old child killed in Baramulla village Residential houses damaged, hundreds of people shifted out of Uri villages Baramulla: Indian and Pakistan armies on Friday exchanged heavy […]