Three inmates injured inside Baramulla lockup scuffle, police
Srinagar: Three youths who were arrested allegedly on charges of stone pelting suffered injuries inside a police lockup in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district after they had scuffle with each other, police said. SSP Baramulla Imtiyaz Hussain said that the “stone pelters” were locked up and under proper remand from Court fought with each other […]
Man stabbed by unknown gunmen in Pulwama
Srinagar: Unidentified men stabbed one person after barging into his house in Nowpora Payeen village of the southern Kashmir’s Pulwama district. The incident happened on Sunday. Sources said that a 30-year-old man Shabir Ahmad Ganai was stabbed in his stomach. He was admitted to District Hospital Pulwama.
Govt to sell shares of people who migrated to Pakistan: Report
NEW DELHI: The Union government has said it will sell stocks worth millions of dollars seized from people who moved to Pakistan following the partition and the wars since, as a way to make up for a shortfall in revenues. The stocks worth at least Rs30 billion ($412.26 million) are part of what India calls […]
Union Minister Ananth Kumar dies
Bengaluru, Nov 12 (PTI) Senior BJP leader and Union Minister Ananth Kumar died early monday morning in Bengaluru, officials said. Parliamentary Affairs and Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister, Kumar was not keeping well for sometime and was on ventilator for the last few days, Ministry officials said. He was 59. Kumar was a BJP MP from […]
BJP gets control of all civic bodies in Kathua
Kathua: Bharatiya Janata Party members were elected to the top positions in all the six municipal bodies in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district on Saturday, officials said. Former Congress leader Naresh Sharma, who recently joined the BJP along with three party councillors, was elected president of the Kathua Municipal Council, while Rekha Kumari was elected […]
India slams UNSC Sanctions Committees for ‘opacity’, ‘lack of accountability’
United Nations, Nov 11 (PTI) India has slammed the UN Security Council’s Sanctions Committees, saying they are opaque and lack accountability and never inform the reason for not acceding to requests for sanctioning militants, in an apparent reference to China repeatedly blocking New Delhi’s bid to list Pakistan-based JeM chief Masood Azhar as a global […]
Soldier killed in another sniper attack by Pak along LoC in Rajouri
Rajouri: An army soldier was killed in a sniper attack from across the border along the Line of Control (LoC) in Nowshera sector of Rajouri in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday evening. A police officer said that Pakistan army in “violation of ceasefire” attacked the army’s 24 Maratha Regiment near Raja Post along the border […]
Around 160 militants waiting at launch pads to infiltrate: Lt Gen Singh
Jammu: The militant infrastructure in Pakistan remains intact and around 160 militants are waiting across the Line of Control (LoC) to infiltrate into Indian territory, a senior Army officer said Sunday. Lieutenant General Paramjit Singh, who took over as the general officer commanding of the Nagrota-based White Knight Corps, commonly known as XVI Corps, also […]
Search on for missing truckers caught in landslide
Banihal (J&K): A team of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has joined an ongoing operation to locate three persons who are believed to have being buried alive following a landslide on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway last week, officials said on Sunday. The landslide struck the highway last Monday at Battery Cheshma in Ramban district […]
Authorities close Mughal road for three days owing to bad weather
Srinagar/ Poonch: In wake of bad weather conditions from November 12, the authorities ordered the closure of Mughal Road for vehicular traffic for three days from tomorrow. SSP Poonch Rajiv Panday said that in view of predictions of bad weather from tomorrow, the Mughal Road will remain closed for three days as precautionary measure. “We […]
