Residential house damaged in cross LoC shelling in Uri
Srinagar:Cross border shelling again in Uri Sector of northern region of Kashmir created panic among residents on early Sunday. Reports said that cross-border firing and shelling took place in Kamalkote sector in Uri during the night and continued in the morning hours today resulting in damage to one house belonging to Mohammad Sadiq Barwal son […]
Cordon and search operation started in Tral village
Pulwama: Government forces on Sunday morning launched a Cordon and Search Operation (CASO) in Pinglish area of Tral in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Official sources said that the search operation was jointly launched by the 42 RR and SOG Tral after receiving credible information about the presence of militants in the village. The search operation […]
Pak demands India’s removal from terror financing watchdog’s review body
Islamabad: Pakistan has asked the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an international terror financing watchdog, to remove India as co-chair of its Asia-Pacific Joint Group, the Finance Ministry said. Currently placed on the FATF’s ‘grey list’, Pakistan has been scrambling in recent months to avoid being added to a list of countries deemed non-compliant with […]
Missing Italian, British climbers found dead on Pak’s ‘killer mountain’
Islamabad: The bodies of two mountaineers from the UK and Italy were found Saturday in northern Pakistan, nearly two weeks after the duo went missing while trying to climb Nanga Parbat in Gilgit-Baltisitan region, the Italian ambassador said . Italian national Daniele Nardi, 42, and Tom Ballard, a 30-year-old Briton, went missing on February 24 […]
Twelve dead in Colombia plane crash
Bogota, Mar 10 (AFP) A plane crash in Colombia killed 12 people on Saturday, including a mayor and her family, aviation and emergency services said. The Douglas DC-3 aircraft, an American-made twin-engine propeller plane that was first produced in the 1930s, crashed in the centre-east of the country on a flight between the towns of San […]
Forces start cordon and search operation in Shopian village
Shopian: Government forces on Sunday morning launched a Cordon and Search Operation (CASO) in Braripora area of South Kashmir’s Shopian district. Official sources said that the search operation was jointly launched by the 44 RR and SOG Shopian after receiving credible information about the presence of militants in the area. The search operation was going […]
Turn the page
India and Pakistan have been living with hostilities towards each other since the day the two nations were carved out of a single entity. The countries have since then fought many wars and have been acting as die hard enemies, causing a loss to the people living in both the countries. It has been more […]
Bid to smuggle cigarettes outside J-K foiled
Jammu, Mar 9 (PTI) Sleuths of the Excise Department Saturday foiled an attempt of tax evaders to smuggle cigarettes, weighing around 1,200 kilograms, outside the state when they intercepted a truck at Lakhanpur toll plaza in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. “Cigarettes attract toll tax at the rate of Rs 4,000 per […]
Won’t allow BJP to turn J-K into theatre of war for electoral gains: Mehbooba
Srinagar, Mar 9 (PTI) PDP president Mehbooba Mufti Saturday alleged that there were attempts to “intimidate” the people of Kashmir following the Pulwama terror strike, and said her party will not allow the BJP to turn Jammu and Kashmir into a “theatre of war for electoral gains”. At a meeting of PDP’s top leadership here […]
Pakistan violates ceasefire along LoC in Rajouri
Jammu, Mar 9 (PTI) Pakistani troops violated ceasefire along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Saturday, a defence spokesperson said. At about 6.00 pm, Pakistani Army initiated unprovoked ceasefire violation by shelling with mortars and firing of small arms in Sunderbani sector, he said. The spokesperson said the Indian Army […]