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An officer of the Railway Protection Force was killed and another injured in a suspected militant attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Monday. The attack took place in near a tea stall in Kakapora town. The police have cordoned off the area.The Kashmir Zone Police said that ...

The Kashmiri Pandit Sangarash Samiti on Friday condemned the recent killings of minorities and non-locals in Jammu and Kashmir. In a statement, Sanjay Tickoo, the president of the group, said that the Union Territory administration was not providing enough security to ensure the safety of his community members.He claimed ...

A panchayat head was killed by militants in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Friday, the police said. The panchayat head has been identified as Manzoor Ahmad Bangroo. He was not affiliated to any political party.The police said that Bangroo was attacked in the Goshburg area of Pattan town. ...

Four militants affiliated to the Lashkar-e-Taiba were killed in a gunfight with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district on Thursday, the police said. The militants were active in Shopian and Pulwama districts, Inspector General of Police (Kashmir range) Vijay Kumar said. “They were involved in six terror ...

National Conference leader Omar Abdullah was on Thursday questioned by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the Jammu and Kashmir Bank money laundering case, reported NDTV.The development came shortly after the central agency booked Jammu and Kashmir Bank chairperson Mushtaq Ahmad Shaikh and 18 others for issuing loans without ...

Two militants were killed in a gunfight in the Tral area of Pulwama district on Wednesday, the Jammu and Kashmir Police said.The police said that they were associated with militant outfits Ansar Ghazwat-ul Hind and Lashkar-e-Taiba.AGuH #terrorist Safat Muzzaffar Sofi @ Muavia and LeT’s terrorist Umer Teli @ Talha ...

A Kashmiri Pandit was shot at by militants in Shopian district on Monday, the police said. This was the third such attack in Jammu and Kashmir in a day. Bal Krishan, a shopkeeper, was shot at near his house in Chotigam village. According to police, Krishan was critically injured ...

The Jammu and Kashmir Police said that stories of good governance in the Union Territory were missing on The Kashmir Walla, a news portal run by detained journalist Fahad Shah.The police made the allegations in a dossier prepared to justify Shah’s detention under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety ...

Kashmiri journalist Fahad Shah, who was arrested on February 4 for posting allegedly “anti-national” content on social media, was granted interim bail by a special court under the National Investigation Agency on Saturday, his lawyer Umair Ronga said in a tweet.Shah is the editor-in-chief of news portal The Kashmir ...

National Conference leader Syed Mushtaq Bukhari on Tuesday resigned from the party citing “untenable relationship” with the leadership over the “Pahari cause”, Greater Kashmir reported.Bukhari has been demanding Scheduled Tribe status for the community – a social and linguistic minority that resides in the mountainous region of Jammu and ...