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Two non-local labourers were shot dead and one other sustained injuries after suspected militants opened fire in Wanpoh area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Sunday, the police said. Security forces have cordoned off the area.The deceased men have been identified as Raja Reshi Dev and Joginder Reshi ...

The Committee to Protect Journalists on Friday demanded the immediate release of two journalists detained in Jammu and Kashmir.The United States-based non-governmental organisation also urged the administration in the Union Territory to stop questioning journalists and asked the authorities to instead allow the media to operate freely.The organisation that ...

Two suspected militants involved in the killing of civilians were shot dead in separate gunfights in Srinagar and Pulwama districts of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday.The militants belonged to the Resistance Front, an offshoot of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, the police claimed in a statement. The militant killed in the Pulwama ...

The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday detained Srinagar-based photojournalist Mukhtar Zahoor from his house in Srinagar’s Dalgate area, The Kashmir Walla reported.The police have now released him.Zahoor’s family said that around 12.30 am, he got a call from someone asking him to go downstairs to the gate of ...

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 ...

Suspected militants on Tuesday killed three persons in separate incidents in two districts of Jammu and Kashmir, the police said.A Kashmiri Pandit pharmacist, identified as 68-year-old Makhan Lal Bindroo, and Virender Paswan, a street vendor from Bihar’s Bhagalpur district were killed in Srinagar. A third civilian, Mohammad Shafi Lone, ...

A suspected militant was killed and another captured days after the Indian Army launched a search operation following an infiltration bid along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir. The Army said in a statement on Tuesday that six militants, belonging to the Lashkar-e-Taiba, had attempted to infiltrate ...

The family of a teenager killed in a gunfight with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district on Thursday denied that he was a militant. The police alleged that Anayat Ashraf Dar had shot at a civilian in Shopian’s Chitragam area on Wednesday. “During the course of investigation ...

The Indian Army has launched an operation in Jammu and Kashmir after detecting “suspicious movement” along the Line of Control, the Hindustan Times reported on Tuesday. Army officials suspect that infiltrators have entered Uri town in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Internet and mobile phone services were suspended in ...

A railway constable and a labourer were shot dead by suspected militants in two separate incidents in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Friday.In a statement, the police said that the militants fired on the railway constable, identified as Bantu Sharma, at around 6 pm. The police said he was ...