Elections ‘with full transparency’ after electoral rolls: Amit Shah

Elections ‘with full transparency’ after electoral rolls: Amit Shah

Baramulla: Home Minister Amit Shah said on Wednesday that the assembly election in Jammu and Kashmir will be conducted once the Election Commission completes the exercise of publishing the revised electoral rolls. Shah was addressing a public rally in Baramulla district of north Kashmir. “We have started a political process. I want to assure you […]

No talks with Pak, won’t tolerate terrorism: Shah

No talks with Pak, won’t tolerate terrorism: Shah

Baramulla: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday ruled out holding any dialogue with Pakistan and asserted that the Modi government will wipe out terrorism from Jammu and Kashmir and make it the most peaceful place in the country. Addressing a rally here, Shah asked whether terrorism has ever benefited anyone as the menace has […]

Shah visits family of slain policeman in Uri

Shah visits family of slain policeman in Uri

Uri: Amit Shah on Wednesday visited the family of policeman Mudasir Sheikh who was killed in an encounter in Baramulla district earlier this year, officials said. They said Shah along with Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and MoS PMO Jitendra Singh went to Sheikh’s residence in Uri, 100 kms from Srinagar. Shah met Sheikh’s family and […]

Paharis reach Baramulla to participate in rally

Paharis reach Baramulla to participate in rally

Srinagar: Baramulla town was flooded with people from Pahari community to participate in Home Minister Amit Shah’s rally on Wednesday. Wearing turbans, they were seen beating drums, singing local Pahari folk songs to welcome the Home Minister. They raised slogans, “Shah -Shah Amit Shah”, “Pahariyaonn ka Neta Koun Banega, Shah Banega -Shah Banega”. They said […]

HM pauses speech during rally after hearing ‘Azaan’

HM pauses speech during rally after hearing ‘Azaan’

Baramulla: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday briefly stopped his speech during a rally in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir as ‘Azaan’ or Muslim call to prayer was going on from a nearby mosque. Five minutes into his about half-an-hour speech at Showkat Ali stadium in this North Kashmir district, the senior Bharatiya […]

BSF DG visits forward areas in Kupwara

Srinagar: BSF Director General Pankaj Kumar Singh visited forward areas along the Line of Control (LoC) in Kupwara district on Tuesday. During his visit, Singh interacted with troops of the Border Security Force and the Army, and was also briefed about operations along the “Sh Pankaj Kumar Singh, IPS DG BSF visited #forward areas on […]

No militancy angle in murder of DG (Prisons): Police

No militancy angle in murder of DG (Prisons): Police

Jammu: No militancy angle has emerged during investigation of the murder case of Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police (Prisons) Hemant Kumar Lohia, police said on Wednesday. Additional Director General of Police (ADGP), Jammu zone, Mukesh Singh said the interrogation of the accused is in progress and his disclosures are being corroborated with field […]

4 local militants killed in back-to-back gunfights in Shopian

4 local militants killed in back-to-back gunfights in Shopian

Anantnag: Four local militants, three of them affiliated to Jaish-e-Muhammad and another to the Lashkar-e-Toiba, were killed in two separate gunfights on Wednesday here in Shopian district, police said. The two gunfights took place in Drach and Mool villages. The militants slain in the Drach gunfight have been identified by a police source as Saqib […]

Civilian killed in Pulwama

Civilian killed in Pulwama

Cop whose rifle went off accidentally arrested: ADGP Kashmir Srinagar: A civilian who was killed after rifle of a cop went off accidentally has been arrested in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Wednesday, officials said. Kashmir Police Zone while Quoting ADGP Vijay Kumar wrote, “Today while on duty at Haal Pulwama, rifle of a Policeman […]

Mehbooba, Police in Twitter spat over ‘house arrest’

Mehbooba, Police in Twitter spat over ‘house arrest’

Srinagar: Former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti and Jammu and Kashmir Police engaged in a Twitter spat on Wednesday after she claimed that she was placed under house arrest to prevent her from visiting an area in north Kashmir. The police rebutted the claims of the PDP chief and said she was free to travel anywhere. […]