Mehbooba calls for dialogue with Pakistan, seeks end bloodshed in Kashmir
Anantnag, Feb 20: People’s Democratic President and former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday batted for dialogue with Pakistan to end bloodshed in Kashmir. The PDP cheif visited Logripora , Aishmuqam Anantnag to express sympathies with the bereaved family of constable Suhail Ahmad who was killed in a militant attack in Baghaat area […]
Father, son killed in crash on highway in Samba
Jammu, Feb 20 (PTI) A 70-year-old man and his son were killed while three others suffered injuries when a van and a truck collided on the Jammu-Pathankot highway in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district in the early hours of Saturday, police said. Both the vehicles were coming from Kathua and the accident took place near […]
Two militant associates of LeT arrested in JK
Srinagar, Feb 20 (PTI) Security forces have arrested two militant associates of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) outfit and recovered incriminating materials from their possession in Bandipora district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Saturday. Acting on specific inputs, security forces established a checkpoint near Papachan-Bandipora Bridge and apprehended two militant associates linked with the proscribed outfit […]
Three separate Kabul explosions kill 5, wound 21: Afghan Police
Kabul, Feb 20 (AP) Three separate explosions in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday killed at least five people and wounded two others, a police official said, amid a surge in violence in the war-torn country. Kabul police spokesman Ferdaws Faramarz said the first two explosions took place 15 minutes apart and a third targeting […]
India and China hold 10th round of military talks; focus on further disengagement in eastern Ladakh
New Delhi, Feb 20 (PTI) India and China on Saturday held another round of military talks with a focus on taking forward the disengagement process in Hot Springs, Gogra and Depsang in eastern Ladakh and bring down the tensions in the region, official sources said. The 10th round of Corps Commander-level talks are taking place […]
Dead body recovered in Handwara
Srinagar, Feb 20: Police on Saturday recovered a dead body of a man in Handwara area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district. Officials said that body of the man identified as Mohammad Amin Tantary son of Abdul Jabar Tantary of Khnabal Handwara was recovered from bus stand Handwara. They said the body bears multiple injury marks. […]
Three lottery sellers arrested for ‘cheating’ people in Kupwara
Kupwara, Feb 20: Police arrested three lottery sellers for cheating people within the jurisdiction of police station Sogam in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district, officials said on Saturday. They said that based on a complaint from a woman from Takipora Lolab, Police arrested three lottery sellers identified as Mehrajudin Shah, Yawar Irshad Malla and Wasim Akram […]
No hasty or disorderly withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan: US Defence Secretary
Washington, Feb 20 (PTI) Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin has said that the US will not undertake a hasty or disorderly withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan, stressing that violence must decrease now in the war-torn country and more progress is needed in the Afghan-led negotiations. The US and the Taliban reached an agreement in February […]
Morning cup of tea proves fatal for two policemen shot dead in upmarket Srinagar area
Srinagar, Feb 20 (PTI) A regular morning cup of tea proved fatal for two unarmed policemen who were gunned down by a militant in broad daylight in an upmarket Srinagar area, an incident witnessed by several people and captured on CCTV cameras, police said on Friday. The two policemen, posted in nearby Saddar Police station […]
32 militants arrested in Delhi in 2020: Police
New Delhi, Feb 20 (PTI) The Delhi Police arrested 32 militants last year, the highest since 2016, officials said on Friday. A total of five were arrested in 2019, eight in 2018, 11 in 2017 and 16 in 2016, they said. In 2020, the Delhi Police busted an ISIS terror module, the officials said. The […]
