Tag: Kashmir

Jammu: Police and security forces are chasing the remaining militants, as we are committed to root out militancy from J&K, stated Director General of Police J&K, Dilbag Singh at Katra in Reasi District on Tuesday. The DGP was speaking to the media after inaugurating the newly constructed Police Station ...

When the Cricket World Cup opens in India next month, several players will carry Kashmiri willow wood bats, but manufacturers say the over-exploitation of trees means their craft faces ruin. Unchecked logging without replanting has reduced swaths of woodland to scrub in the disputed Indian-administered Himalayan territory, and bat ...

Baramulla: Jammu and Kashmir police Wednesday claimed to have arrested one Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist and five terror associates including two women. One among the arrested persons includes a juvenile as well. Addressing a press conference at Baramulla, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Barmulla Amog Nagpure said that on police have ...

Jammu: Two persons including a policeman were killed when a vehicle they were travelling in skidded off the road and fell into 100-ft deep gorge in Poonch district on Tuesday, officials said. They said that the Alto car (JK12C-6052) driven by one Mohammad Sadiq (Sgct Constable) met with the ...

Budgam: Security Forces on Tuesday apprehended four suspects along with arms and ammunition in central Kashmir’s Budgam district. An official said that based on a specific inputs, on the intervening night of 25-26 in Beerwah area of Budgam district, four suspects were arrested. He said that they were apprehended ...

Srinagar: Body of a Special Police Officer was recovered in Poonch early Tuesday morning and according to officials he might have been killed due to an accident. A police official said that the body of SPO Khaliq Hussain, Posted at DPL Poonch and attached with local Police Station, was ...

Srinagar, Indian administered Kashmir —  Sitting in a row as the sun beats down, more than a dozen men fish from a small peninsula that has emerged along the Jhelum, one of the major rivers in Indian Kashmir. From heavy rains and flash floods earlier this year to a ...

Srinagar: Snowfall in higher reaches of Kashmir and rains in the plains ended a prolonged dry spell and brought down the mercury significantly in the Valley which experienced record high temperatures this month, officials said on Monday.Moderate rains lashed most parts of the valley. Srinagar city recorded 18.3 mm ...

Reviews the progress of IT initiatives Srinagar: With an aim to further ease the life of common citizens through the medium of e-initiatives for greater transparency and door-step delivery of various government services, Chief Secretary, Dr. Arun Kumar Mehta chaired a detailed review of the IT Department today.At the ...

Granting Immunity From Prosecution To MPs, MLAs New Delhi: A seven-judge bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, will reconsider the apex court’s 1998 verdict granting MPs and MLAs immunity from prosecution for taking bribe to make a speech or vote in Parliament and ...