Srinagar: A gunfight broke out between security forces and militants after their attempt to strike at a CRPF camp here was foiled, killing a paramilitary soldier and injuring a policeman, officials said Monday. The encounter site is barely a few hundred meters away from the SMHS hospital from where militants managed to free their accomplice […]
Srinagar: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh Monday reviewed the security situation with top officials of Home Ministry, Intelligence agencies and Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) heads. The Home Minister called for strengthening Internal Security Grid to thwart attacks on security establishments in Jammu and Kashmir. The meeting was chaired by Union Home minster Raj Nath […]
JAMMU: Defence Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, who flew to winter capital early today, called on the Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti here this evening. During the meeting, the two leaders discussed the overall security scenario obtaining in the State particularly in the backdrop of continued shelling on the borders and the attack on Army camp at Sunjwan […]
JAMMU: Defence Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, who flew to winter capital early today, called on the Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti here this evening. During the meeting, the two leaders discussed the overall security scenario obtaining in the State particularly in the backdrop of continued shelling on the borders and the attack on Army camp at Sunjwan […]
Jammu: Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said that war is no solution to the Kashmir dispute and dialogue is the only way out to resolve the issue. She also accused the private TV channels of portraying negative picture about the situation in Kashmir during debates and regretted that leaders calling for dialogue are dubbed as […]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday restrained the Jammu and Kashmir Police from taking any “coercive steps” against Army officers including Major Aditya Kumar, who have been made an accused in the Shopian firing case in which three civilians were killed. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D […]
Jammu: The Army said on Monday that the search operation was underway in its Sunjwan camp, which was attacked by a group of suspected JeM militants, killing six persons, including five soldiers. Three suspected Jaish-e-Mohammad militants involved in the attack were killed in the retaliatory action by the Army inside the camp and a […]
Srinagar: Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) chief Mehmood Shah on Monday paid tributes to militants killed in an encounter with government forces at Sunjwan army camp, Jammu. Lashkar spokesperson Dr Abdullah Ghaznavi in a statement issued to a local news agency GNS quoted Shah as saying, “Indian forces only know how to spill the blood of innocent Kashmiris […]
Srinagar: The winter chill returned to Kashmir Valley after fresh snowfall broke the long dry spell on Monday with moderate to heavy snowfall reported from the higher reaches as plains too witnessed snowfall and rains. The fresh snowfall in the valley closed down the strategic Srinagar-Jammu highway due to slippery conditions and landslides, official sources […]
Srinagar: A 45-year-old man was killed after he was fired upon by unknown gunmen in Charangam area of Central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Monday evening. Police sources said that gunmen fired upon Mohammad Mohammad Yousf Rather at Charangam when he was sitting inside a passenger vehicle (Taveera). A resident of Sanzipora, Beerwah, Budgam, Yousuf was […]