60 year old woman dies in fire mishap

Sopore: An old aged woman trapped inside the house which was gutted in a fire mishap died in Rafiabad area in Northern region of Kashmir on Saturday. According to reports fire broke out in the house of Ghulam Hassan Khan son of Sher Wali Khan resident of Lari Aagan village of Rafiabad in North Kashmir’s […]

2 CRPF personnel among 4 injured in grenade attack in Pulwama

Srinagar:  Four persons, including two CRPF personnel, were injured in a grenade attack in Pulwama district of south Kashmir today, the police said. Militants lobbed a grenade at a CRPF party in Batagund area of Tral, a police official said. Four persons, including two CRPF jawans, were injured in the incident, he said. The area […]

Muslims opposing Ram temple must go to Pak: UP Shia Waqf board chief

Faizabad: Uttar Pradesh Shia Waqf Board Chairman Waseem Rizvi today suggested that Muslims who are against the condtruction of Ram temple in Ayodhya “must go to Pakistan and Bangladesh”. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the Babri Masjid/Ram Janambhoomi dispute from February 8. Rizvi offered Friday prayers at the disputed site in Ayodhya and […]

Grenade lobbed at CRPF in Tral

Srinagar: Suspected militants on Saturday hurled a grenade at paramilitary at Bhatgund area of Tral in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Official sources told that militants attacked CRPF 185BN at Bhatgund. However there was not any immediate report of injuries on CRPF side so far. Unconfirmed reports said that two civilians sustained minor splinter injuries in […]

Kashmir students assault: Harayana police arrests three among six identified persons

Srinagar: Three persons have been arrested in connection with assault on Kashmiri students by Harayana police on Saturday. “We have arrested three among the six identified persons. They too will be arrested very soon,” Director General of Police (DGP) B.S. Sandhu, IPS, Harayana told Srinagar-based news agency. He said that the persons were identified from […]

Kashmiri students assault: Harayana police procures footage, forms SIT

  Srinagar: Harayana police has registered a case and constituted a special investigation team (SIT) in to the assault of Kashmiri students in Mahendergarh town of the state. Director General of Police (DGP) B.S. Sandhu, IPS, Harayana told Srinagar-based news agency GNS that FIR no 53/2018 under section 148 (rioting), 149 (unlawful assembly), 341 (wrongful restraint), […]

Temperatures dip further in J&K

Srinagar: Minimum temperatures in the Kashmir Valley and the Ladakh region on Saturday plummeted further due to clear overnight sky, a Met official said. Srinagar city recorded a minimum temperature of minus 1.5, Pahalgam minus 4.2 and Gulmarg minus 7 degrees Celsius. At minus 13, Kargil was the coldest town in Jammu and Kashmir as […]

Kashmiri students’ assault: Oppn raises issue in JK Assembly, demands reply from govt

Jammu: Opposition in Jammu & Kashmir Assembly raised the issue of alleged assault on two Kashmiri youth by a mob in Haryana’s Mahendergarh. The opposition members  while raising the issue demanded reply from state government. Pertinently, two Kashmiri youth were allegedly beaten by a mob in Harayana central university while returning to campus after offering Friday prayers. […]

US warns countries against aiding terrorists eyeing nuclear weapons 

Washington: The United States has warned countries against supporting non-state actors and terrorist groups trying to obtain or employ nuclear weapons. “The US will hold accountable any state or non-state actor that supports terrorist efforts to obtain or employ a nuclear weapon,” Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Tom Shannon, told reporters at a Pentagon […]

Lawmaker says army personnel violated law

Langate: The Langate lawmaker, Engineer Abdul Rasheed Sheikh on Friday visited the Mawar Nallah and monitored the situation there after some chemical was ‘poured into it due to which many trout fishes died’. Er Rasheed in a statement issued here appealed the people of the area to not to pay heed to rumors. He, according […]