Baramulla: Many shops were looted by unknown thieves in Kralgund area of Handwara in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Wednesday night. Locals said in the morning when shopkeepers reached the main market Kralgund Handwara to open their shops, however some six shopkeepers were astonished when they found locks of their shops broken and shops looted. […]
Baramulla: The residents of Bagh-e-Islam area of Sopore on Thursday staged a protest against the department of Jal Shakti who according to them failed to provide them regular tap water from past two and half months. The protesting people including women and children hit the streets at Iqbal market Sopore and blocked the vehicular movement […]
BARAMULLA: The people in border town Uri held a protest against the border roads organisation (BRO) and power development department (PDD) on Wednesday who according to them have failed to provide them the basic facilities like road and electricity. Reports said that a large number of people from different villages of Uri including Gharkot, Balkot, […]
BARAMULLA: The unscheduled power cuts are causing hardship to the residents of Uri area of Baramulla district, with locals saying that the power department is carrying out undue cutts in the area with supply frequently snapped in evenings. The locals of the, Kamalkote, Sultandaki, Madya, Shahdara, Nambla, Garkote, Tarkanjan, Boniyar, Tilawari, Pringal, Noorkhah, Danisyeda,Uranbuha, Gingal, […]
Kupwara: A day after seven lives including of an army officer, two army soldiers, one BSF trooper, and three militants were claimed in gun battles in Machil sector along the Line of Control (LoC), government forces continued to comb the area on Monday for presence of other militants. Officials said that after the killing of […]
Srinagar /BARAMULLA: Kashmir based fruit growers and dealers on Monday staged a protest against the authorities for allegedly stopping trucks laden with the fruit on Srinagar-Jammu highway causing huge losses to them. In Srinagar and Sopore, growers and traders gathered and said that trucks carrying fruit to different parts of the country are being ‘unnecessarily’ […]
Major infiltration foiled, says army, area being searched for other militants Kupwara: An army officer along with two soldiers and one BSF trooper were killed in a gunfight with militants, three of whom have been killed, along the Line of Control (LoC) in Machil village of frontier district Kupwara on Sunday. Officials said that troops […]
BARAMULLA: Despite orders from the government that no private school in Jammu Kashmir can charge admission fee from students this year, the Saint Joseph’s Higher Secondary School Baramulla is forcing parents to pay a substantial amount in admission fee, failing which it has threatened to cancel the admission of students. “The authorities of Saint Joseph’s […]
Kupwara: Two bear cubs trapped in a water storage tank in Sogam Lolab area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Saturday morning were rescued by the Wilddlife officlals. Locals said that some people of Kumar Mohla, Sogam spotted two black bear cubs inside a newly constructed water storage tank in the area and that people […]
Baramulla: An elderly man was killed by his neighbour with an axe in Pohrupeth village of Handwara in Kupwara district late on Thursday evening. Sources said that a person named Abdul Jabar Dar, 65, son of Gulam Ahmad Dar, resident of Pohrupeth village Handwara, was attacked by his neighbour Farooq Ahmad Dar with an axe […]