Anantnag: A civilian was killed after being “caught in crossfire during a chance encounter” Sunday afternoon here in Shopian district, police said. The slain civilian has been identified as Shoaib Ahmad Ganaie, son of Ghulam Muhammad, a resident of Turkwangam village in Shopian district. “He was brought to Pulwama district hospital, but could not survive […]
Anantnag: A lift-irrigation scheme that could have been a solution for the irrigation woes of more than 500 hectares of agricultural land here in Pulwama district remains incomplete ten years after it was sanctioned. The Rabitar Lift-Irrigation Scheme was sanctioned under the central government’s Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Program (AIBP) in 2012. With a lift of […]
Raising anti-BJP slogans, protestors say they will resign jobs and leave Kashmir if security not given Anantnag: The minority Pandit community continued to protest on the streets for the second day against the targeted killing of their members, with some protestors hurling stones at police and the police firing tear smoke shells to disperse them […]
Was taking child to school bus in morning when bike-borne men shot at him multiple times Anantnag: A police constable was shot at and killed by unidentified militants on Friday morning in Pulwama district. This was the second targeted killing in less than 24 hours carried out by militants. A Kashmiri Pandit, an employee of […]
Pandits protest in Budgam, Pulwama, block NH 44 in Anantnag Anantnag: Kashmiri Pandit, an employee of the Revenue department in Budgam district, was shot at and killed by unidentified pistol-borne militants inside his chamber at the Tehsil office Chadoora in Budgam. Following the killing, hundreds of Kashmiri Pandits, living in secure colonies in different parts […]
Another encounter begins in Anantnag where 2 militants are believed to be trapped Anantnag: A militant “part of a recently infiltrated militant group” was killed in a gunfight between militants and government forces in Bandipora district of north Kashmir, even as another gunfight raged in Anantnag district of south Kashmir, on Wednesday. The slain militant […]
63 militants killed this year so far Anantnag: Two militants were killed on Tuesday evening in an ongoing “important” gunfight between militants and government forces in Anantnag district of South Kashmir. With the killing of these two militants, the number of militants slain in 2022 has gone up to 69, as 23 of them were […]
Anantnag: Amid growing voices of concern and demands for stringent action against perpetrators of “domestic violence” , police in Baramulla have constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the killing of a young woman. The 28-year-old victim Zahida Bano, from the Warpora of Kreeri area of Baramulla, was a mother of two and was […]
Pakistani militant involved in two major attacks in Bandipora also killed in gunfight Anantnag: Two militants of Lashkar-e-Toiba, one of them a Pakistani national and the other a local militant who was involved in the killing of a Kashmiri Rajput man in Kakran area of Kulgam last month, were killed in a gunfight with government […]
Bijbehara: The Bijbehara stretch along the old national highway is in dire need of widening, but the administration has instead banned parking along the road even as there is an acute dearth of parking space in the town. Traffic congestion persists in towns which were bypassed when the new NH-44 was constructed, and is even […]