Jammu: Army and police personnel launched a joint search operation in border areas of Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district and recovered 17 hand grenades on Friday, a senior police officer said. A search operation was launched on specific information in Kharagali area of Loran border belt and a hideout was busted, he said. Seventeen hand […]
Srinagar: Kashmir Valley showed some signs of normalcy on Thursday, with traffic jams in summer capital Srinagar and some shops opening in the city in the morning hours. However, the government’s efforts to reopen schools, which have now been closed for two months following abrogation of Article 370, failed again as students stayed away from […]
Jammu: Pakistan army continued ceasefire violation by resorting to heavy mortar shelling and heavy firing targeting civilian areas along the Indo-Pak border in Rajouri, Poonch and Kathua districts of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Thursday. Pakistan army resorted to heavy weaponry firing and mortar shelling targeting dozens of villages and forward posts along the […]
Washington: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in his meeting with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar discussed a range of issues including growing strategic bilateral ties, developments in Kashmir and global issues of concern, the State Department said Wednesday. Jaishankar and Pompeo met at the Foggy Bottom headquarters of the State Department on Monday. A […]
Dhaka: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina received a surprise phone call from her Pakistani counterpart Imran Khan hours ahead of her visit to India, according to officials. Khan has been dialling up Muslim leaders around the world to drum up support for Islamabad on the Kashmir issue. Hasina’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim told PTI that […]
New Delhi: Several JNU students resorted to sloganeering during a talk by Union minister Jitendra Singh on Thursday, which was countered by ABVP activists. Singh was invited to the varsity for a talk to deliver a lecture on ‘Abrogation of Article 370: Peace, Stability and Development in Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh’. A section of students […]
Islamabad: Pakistan on Thursday asked the Taliban to grasp the opportunity and resume talks with the US for an early and peaceful resolution of the conflict in Afghanistan, saying war is not a solution, as top leaders of the militant group met Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi here. A high-level Taliban delegation met Qureshi as […]
JAMMU: Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court Justice Gita Mittal has said that efforts are on to connect all the jails in the state with courts through video conferencing to ensure speedy justice to the inmates. She announced that meeting of lawyers with their clients in jails can take place on the eve […]
Srinagar: Some shops in the city opened in the morning hours on Wednesday but main markets and other business establishments across the Kashmir Valley remained shut for the 59th consecutive day. Normal life in the valley has been disrupted following abrogation of Article 370 on August 5. Mobile services remained suspended in Kashmir except in […]
New Delhi: The Juvenile Justice Committee of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court has told the Supreme Court that 144 juveniles were detained in the state after the Government of India abrogated provisions of Article 370, but 142 minors were later released. The committee, in its report filed in the apex court, said the remaining […]