Power Dept blamed for putting up live transmission line close to college wall Anantnag: A 20-year-old student of Government Degree College Bijbehara was electrocuted to death while playing volleyball in the college premises on Wednesday. Shocked students of the college held a protest over the death and raised slogans against the Power Development Department (PDD) […]
Militants identified: IGP Kashmir Srinagar: A policeman was killed, after getting seriously injured, in a brief shootout between government forces and militants here in the Soura area of Srinagar city, police said. The slain policeman has been identified as Amir Hussain Lone, a resident of the Kupwara district in North Kashmir. “He was a Sgt. […]
Srinagar: One of Srinagar’s main tourist attractions, the Tulip Garden, is all set to be thrown open for tourists on Wednesday, with nearly 1.5 million flowers expected to bloom over the next month. Located on the banks of Dal Lake and on the foothills of the Zabarwan range, this Tulip garden is considered to be […]
Anantnag: A local civilian was killed and a non-local civilian seriously injured as unidentified militants shot at them in two separate incidents. The first incident occurred in central Kashmir’s Budgam district followed by another in Pulwama district of south Kashmir. The slain civilian has been identified as Tajammul Mohiuddin Dar, a resident of Gotpora village […]
3 CRPF men injured in two grenade attacks in south Kashmir Anantnag: A non-local labourer was shot at, and grievously injured, by unidentified militants late Saturday evening here in Pulwama district of South Kashmir. The injured man has been identified as Muhammad Akram, son of Abdul Salam, a resident of Bijnor district in Uttar Pradesh. […]
Anantnag: With only two Covid related deaths in March, both of them in Jammu division, and just two people admitted to hospital for the infection, Jammu and Kashmir is almost at the end of the third wave of the pandemic. Though 133 people are still active for the infection in J&K, other numbers suggest there […]
Anantnag: Three local militants affiliated with Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), ‘involved in the recent killing of a Sarpanch’ were killed in a gunfight with government forces in Nowgam area of Srinagar, police said. The militants were a part of LeT’s offshoot, The Resistance Front (TRF). The slain militants have been identified as Adil Nabi Teli, a resident […]
Anantnag: A local militant, affiliated with the Lashkar-e-Toiba outfit, has been killed in a gunfight with government forces, here in the Awantipora area of Pulwama district, police said. Though the police are yet to identify the militant officially, sources told Kashmir Reader that the slain might be Owais Raja, a resident of Subhanpora in the […]
Bijbehara: The fate of much hyped and described as a game-changer for people associated with fruit trade, Satellite Fruit Mandi in Jablipora area of Bijbehara is on shaky grounds nine years after it was conceived and sanctioned. Even if the satellite market becomes a reality, it will be drastically downsized, diluting the purpose it was […]
Wanted Pakistani militant Kamaal Bhai @Jatt killed in Pulwama, IGP calls it ‘big success’ Srinagar: Four militants, one of them a Pakistani commander of the Jaish-e-Muhammad, were killed in three different gunfights in south, north, and central Kashmir regions, the police said, while a civilian was injured in one of the gunfights. “One militant has […]