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Jammu grenade blast: Juvenile Board rejects police claims on age of detainee

Jammu: Juvenile Board of Jammu and Kashmir has rejected medical reports suggesting that the teenager allegedly involved in a grenade attack in Jammu last week was in fact an “adult”, officials said on Wednesday. The board has sought for all school records of the accused which it suspects to be a minor. The officials said […]

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NIA delaying our cases deliberately, say arrested separatist leaders

NIA delaying our cases deliberately, say arrested separatist leaders

New Delhi: Number of Hurriyat Conference leaders arrested in a terror funding case accused the NIA on Wednesday of delaying the case, which also involves Lashkar-e-Taiba chief and 26/11 Mumbai attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed. The NIA had accused Saeed and others, including Hizbul Mujahideen head Syed Salahuddin, of “conspiring to wage war against the government” […]

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Ex-SPO shot dead by militants in Pulwama

Srinagar: A former Special Police Officer was shot dead by militants in broad day light on Wednesday in a village in Pulwama district of South Kashmir, officials said. The deceased has been identified as Ashiq Ahmed Nayak, they said. The militants, believed to be from Jaish-e-Mohammed, fired at Nayak while he was walking on a […]

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Naik family loses sole son

Pulwama: Former SPO who was killed in his native village on Wednesday afternoon was the lone son of Nayak family. Showkat Ahmad Nayak, son of Mohammad Yousuf Naik of Pinglena was shot dead by unidentified gunmen on a road in his native village. Eyewitnesses said that unidentified gunmen who were boarding a vehicle fired upon […]

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People in JK ‘consciously disenfranchised’: Omar

People in JK ‘consciously disenfranchised’: Omar

Srinagar: National Conference vice-president Omar Abdullah said on Wednesday the Modi government had “consciously disenfranchised” the people in Jammu and Kashmir by not holding the Assembly election on time. “Dear @narendramodi Sahib, it is good to see you appealing to famous people to increase voter turnout however at the same time your government has consciously […]

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PDP, BJP want to influence Lok Sabha polls by deception, deceit: NC

Jammu: The National Conference Wednesday said the erstwhile coalition partners, PDP and BJP, want to influence the Lok Sabha polls by “deceit and deception” in Jammu and Kashmir as they are still in an “alliance” despite the fall of their government. “We have credible information about the PDP soliciting the advice and direction of the […]

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Farooq destroying scope of combined resistance to BJP: PDP leader

Srinagar: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday said that Dr Farooq Abdullah was destroying scope of combined resistance to the designs of BJP and their assault on special position in Jammu and Kashmir. Senior PDP leader and former minister Naeem Akhtar said that Dr Farooq is travelling from one state capital to the other to […]

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Cross-LoC trade suspended after border shelling in Poonch

Jammu: The cross-LoC trade was suspended on Wednesday after Pakistan Army violated the ceasefire along the Line of Control by resorting to unprovoked mortar shelling and small arms firing in Poonch district, officials said. Five mortar shells hit the trade facilitation centre at Chakan-da-Bagh, damaging a few sheds, including the one housing the X-ray scanner, […]

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Landslide buries over three dozen shops in Doda

Bhadarwah: A massive landslide early on Wednesday buried nearly three dozen shops in a rural market in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district, police said. There was no immediate report of any casualty in the incident, which took place at Bathri market in Bhalessa, 65 km from the district headquarters, around 4.15 am, Bhadarwah Superintendent of […]

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Inter-state gang of drug smugglers busted, six held

Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir Police Wednesday claimed to have busted an inter-state gang of drug smugglers with the arrest of six people in separate operations in Samba and Jammu districts. The police seized 3.5 kilograms of charas and 2,214 bottles of codeine phosphate, a derivative of opium. Two alleged drug peddlers, Firdous Ahmad Dar […]