BARAMULLA: Government forces on Friday carried a daylong cordon-and-search operation (CASO) in a Pattan village of Baramulla district. Sources said that government forces including army’s 29 RR, Police and CRPF cordoned off Gohiwa village of Pattan on Friday morning after getting specific information of presence of militants in the area. During CASO, all entry and […]
3 militants from south Kashmir slain, CRPF officer critically wounded Srinagar: A 45-year-old civilian woman was killed in “crossfire” and three militants from south Kashmir were gunned down in Batamaloo area of Srinagar during an encounter that began in the pre-dawn hours of Thursday, police said. A paramilitary CRPF officer was critically wounded and another […]
Anantnag: Srinagar, the most populous district of Kashmir, continues to contribute the maximum cases of Covid-19, and also the maximum fatalities, among all districts. In the past month (since August 16), Srinagar has accounted for 32 percent of the new cases and 33 percent of the deaths related to Covid-19 in Kashmir division. In total, […]
Shopian: The numbers may be increasing everywhere, but they are declining in Shopian. This south Kashmir district has done a remarkable turnaround in dealing with Covid-19, from once being the district with the highest number of cases to becoming the one with the lowest. According to health officials, the last Covid related death here was […]
Srinagar: Nineteen more deaths were reported due to Covid-19 on Thursday, taking the toll of victims in J&K to 951. The covid tally neared the 60k mark with 1,467 fresh cases detected, 682 of them in Kashmir division and 785 in Jammu division. According to officials, five fatalities were reported from Kashmir valley which included […]
Shopian: An impoverished Shopian man who in 2008 donated a precious kanal of his orchard land for construction of a Panchayat Ghar, on the promise of receiving a government job, has since only received electricity bills for the structure that has been constructed there. Mohammad Lateef Famdah, a resident of Chek-Mirzapur, told Kashmir Reader that […]
Baramulla: A day after police said that the body of an over-ground worker (OGW) was found near a stone quarry, while his family said that he was killed in police custody, the district magistrate (DM) Baramulla on Thursday ordered an inquiry which is to be completed within 20 days. District Magistrate Dr Gulam Nabi Itoo […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbagh Singh on Thursday said the test results of the DNA samples collected from the family members of three men from Rajouri, who were allegedly killed in a fake encounter in Shopian, will be out in a few days. “The Army’s initial inquiry process is about […]
New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday asserted in Parliament that no force in the world can stop Indian soldiers from patrolling the country’s border (Line of Actual Control) in Ladakh region. Making a statement in Rajya Sabha on the situation in eastern Ladakh, he said that China has amassed troops on the border […]
New Delhi: A Pulwama-style attack was averted on Thursday by the Army with the recovery of 52 kg of explosives in Karewa area of Gadikal in Kashmir, Army officials said here. The location where the explosives were recovered was near a national highway and close to the site of last year’s Pulwama attack that had […]