Tag: Srinagar News

The Peoples Democratic Party on Sunday announced its candidates for all three Lok Sabha seats in Kashmir, reported PTI.The parliamentary board chief of the Peoples Democratic Party, Sartaj Madni, said that party chief Mehboobs Mufti will contest the general elections from Kashmir’s Anantnag constituency, while its youth wing president ...

A resident of Punjab was shot dead by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar on Wednesday, the police said. Another person was seriously injured in the attack. The incident took place in Srinagar's Shaheed Gunj area, which has been cordoned off by security forces.(Waseem Andrabi /Hindustan Times) The deceased ...

Security personnel with three men who were arrested for allegedly carrying out attack on a policeman in Bemina area of Srinagar. | Photo Credit: PTI Three local militants, who were behind marking the off-duty policemen of the Jammu and Kashmir Police for targeted attacks, were arrested in Srinagar. The ...

Image for representational purposes only. The Jammu & Kashmir Police booked a student of the NIT, Srinagar, on November 29 for allegedly “insulting Islam” and “outraging the religious feelings”, in the wake of protests spreading in the Kashmir Valley following reports of an objectionable post shared on social media by the student. ...

SRINAGAR: Seven Kashmiri students of Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology (SKUAST) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ganderbal have been arrested over celebrations amid chants of “Long Live Pakistan” after Australia pipped India to the World Cup on November 19. They have been held under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) ...

SRINAGAR: Four terrorist associates — one affiliated with Ansar Ghazwatul Hind (AGH) and three with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) — were arrested with arms and ammunition at security checkpoints in the Kashmir Valley last week, police said Sunday. While the AGH affiliate was apprehended in south Kashmir’s Shopian district on November ...

Kashmiri journalist Fahad Shah on Wednesday walked out of jail 21 months after he was arrested in February last year for allegedly glorifying terrorism through a “seditious” article on the now-defunct news website The Kashmir Walla, reported the Hindustan Times.Shah, the editor-in-chief of the website, was first arrested on ...

SRINAGAR: On Thursday, officials reported that the minimum temperature in most places across the Kashmir Valley dropped below freezing, with Shopian being the coldest at minus 3.3 degrees Celsius. A slight increase in minimum temperature occurred on Wednesday night due to the arrival of a western disturbance, anticipated to ...

SRINAGAR: A government girls’ school teacher in Bandipora district of north Kashmir was arrested on Tuesday following a student’s complaint to police that he had forcibly removed and torn her hijab inside the classroom. She also claimed that the teacher had been consistently targeting and harassing her and other ...

The encounter began after security forces launched an anti-militancy operation in the Alshipora area after receiving information about the presence of militants there. File. (for Representational purpose only) | Photo Credit: Nissar Ahmad Two terrorists of the proscribed Lashkar-e-Taiba were killed in an encounter with security forces in Jammu and ...