Jammu-Srinagar highway reopened after brief closure

Banihal/Jammu: The strategic Jammu-Srinagar national highway was reopened on Wednesday following a brief blockade caused by mudslides at several places in Ramban district triggered by heavy rains, officials said. The blockade had brought hundreds of vehicles, including a convoy of Amarnath pilgrims, to a halt, they said. Ramban Deputy Superintendent of Police Pradeep Kumar Sen […]

Rising number of children recruited, for terror related activities: India at UN

Calls the trend dangerous, worrying

United Nations: India has expressed concern on the rising number of children recruited and involved in terrorism-related activities, terming it as a “dangerous and worrying trend” and asked UN member states to demonstrate greater political will to hold the perpetrators of terrorism and their sponsors to account and also fulfil the Security Council’s child protection […]

KP’s in Valley – 6,000 transit accommodations approved for migrant employees: MoS Rai to RS

New Delhi: The central government has approved construction of 6,000 transit accommodations for Kashmiri migrant employees working in the Valley under a special package of the prime minister, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Wednesday. Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai also said the government has acquired state land (including Khalsa Sarkar, Kahchrie, […]

Srinagar arms recovery case: NIA carries out searches at 9 places in Kashmir

Srinagar: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday conducted searches at nine locations in the Kashmir valley in connection with a case related to the recovery of a huge cache of arms and ammunition here, an official said. Two local “hybrid” militants of proscribed terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) were arrested in the Chanapora area of […]

13 structures washed away, 20 damaged in flashfloods in Doda

Bhaderwah/Jammu: Thirteen structures, including a school building, were washed away and at least 20 others got partially damaged in flash floods triggered due to cloudburst in Doda district on Wednesday, officials said. Top districts officials, including Deputy Commissioner Vikas Sharma, Senior Superintendent of Police Abdul Qayoom and Thathri Sub-Divisional Magistrate Ather Amin Zargar reached the […]

Old shell explodes at construction site in Pulwama

Two labourers injured

Srinagar: Two non-local labourers were on Wednesday injured when an old shell exploded at a construction site in Pulwama district of south Kashmir, officials said. During construction work of a boundary wall on the bank of a stream in Tahab area of the south Kashmir district, the shell exploded, the officials said. The officials identified […]

Over 43,00 pilgrims leave for Amarnath cave from Jammu

Jammu: The 30th batch of 4,355 Amarnath pilgrims left the Bhagwati Nagar base camp in Jammu for the twin base camps of of Pahalgam and Baltal in Kashmir on Wednesday, officials said. The pilgrims left in a convoy of 166 vehicles amid heavy CRPF cover, they said. Officials said 1,846 pilgrims heading for Baltal were […]

18 injured in separate road accidents in JK

Jammu: As many as 18 people were injured in two separate road accidents in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi and Rajouri districts on Wednesday, police said. In Reasi, 14 people, including four children, were injured after a minibus collided head-on with a truck on the Katra-Reasi road, they said. The injured have been hospitalised, they said. […]