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The National Investigation Agency on Thursday conducted searches at five locations in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian and Budgam districts. The raids were in connection to a case of an Al-Qaeda operative allegedly making recruitment in Lucknow, the agency said in a release. Homes of political activists and government employees ...

The bodies were exhumed in presence of a magistrate and handed over to families around 9 pm on Thursday and burial took place around midnight, officials said. he bodies of two civilians killed in Monday’s gunfight in Srinagar’s Hyderpora area were buried in the city late on Thursday night ...

Three militants of The Resistance Front, an off shoot of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, were shot dead on Tuesday, the police claimed.Inspector General of Police Kashmir Vijay Kumar said that Mukhtar Shah, who was one of three militants, had killed Virender Paswan, a resident of Bihar’s Bhagalpur district. Paswan sold street ...

Hundreds of Kashmiri Pandits held a protest in Jammu on Saturday against a delay in the payment of their monthly relief, PTI reported, citing police officials. The protestors tried to block the Jammu-Srinagar national highway but were stopped by the police.In the early 1990s when militancy erupted in Jammu ...

A police officer was shot dead from close range by a suspected militant in Khanyar locality of Srinagar on Sunday. The deceased officer has been identified as Probationary Sub-Inspector Arshid Ahmad, PTI reported, citing the Jammu and Kashmir Police.Ahmad was shot at by the militant around 1.35 pm, officials ...

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party and its ideological mentor, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, of hurting the composite culture of Jammu and Kashmir. At a convention of Congress workers in Jammu, Gandhi said the saffron party was trying to ruin the love and brotherhood ...

Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha Thursday stressed on the need to revive glory of J&K as it “has always been a great centre of Sanskrit”. “Like Banaras, J&K has always been a great centre of Sanskrit. It is our collective responsibility to revive its glory. It is ...

A sarpanch associated with the Bharatiya Janata Party, Ghulam Rasool Dar, and his wife, Jawahira, were shot on Monday by suspected militants in Anantnag district in south Kashmir, reported ANI.Dar, who is the Kulgam district president of the BJP’s Kisan Morcha, and his wife were taken to a hospital ...

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday commemorated the second anniversary of the Union government’s decision to rescind Jammu and Kashmir’s special status, previously granted under Article 370 of the Constitution, reported PTI. But other political parties highlighted that it was a day when the central government took “unilateral, unconstitutional, ...

The Border Security Force has said that a “red blinking light” was spotted near the Arnia sector of Jammu district on Tuesday night, reported India Today. “Alert troops fired from their position towards the red blinking light, due to which it returned,” the BSF said in a statement. “The ...