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Jammu-Srinagar highway blocked by massive landslide

Banihal/Jammu: Traffic on the strategic Jammu-Srinagar national highway was suspended Saturday after a massive landslide blocked the arterial road in Ramban district, officials said. A huge landslide occurred at Anokhi Fall in the afternoon, blocking the nearly 270-km highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with rest of the country, the officials said. They said […]

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In Gujarat, Amit Shah says ‘entire Kashmir is ours’

Ahmedabad: BJP chief and the party’s Gandhinagar contestant Amit Shah Saturday held a road show here, where he made people chant a slogan that “entire Kashmir belongs to us”. His slogan-chanting comes in the wake of PDP chief and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti’s criticism that Shah was “daydreaming” about abrogating Article […]

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Top Army commanders to go in a huddle at key conference on Monday

New Delhi: Top Army commanders will deliberate extensively on security challenges facing the country and ways to enhance its combat edge over potential adversaries at a week-long conference beginning Monday. Sources said the commanders will particularly review India’s security preparedness along the border with Pakistan in the wake of changing security scenario following India’s air […]

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Pakistan opens airspace for west-bound flights from India

New Delhi: Pakistan has opened one of its 11 air routes for west-bound flights from India and airlines such as Air India and Turkish Airlines have started using it, said a senior government official Saturday. “Pakistan has been opening its airspace in tranches. On Thursday, it opened one of the 11 routes for west-bound flights. […]

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Army man shot dead in Sopore

Srinagar: An army jawan was Saturday shot dead inside his home in the Sopore area of Baramulla district by suspected militants, police said. The militants barged into the residence of Mohammad Rafi Yatoo, an army jawan, and fired at him indiscriminately, a police official said. He said Yatoo was rushed to a hospital but succumbed […]

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Moves to weaken special status need to be rejected: Mehbooba

Srinagar: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti Saturday said the society needs to collectively reject the nefarious moves aimed at fragmenting Jammu and Kashmir to weaken the special status of the state. “Recent statement of some right-wing political leaders using lure of sops for a particular community, tactical mandate for LokSabha elections by some parties and fielding […]

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Mahore youth creates history, becomes first to crack IAS

Jammu: Babar Ali Chagatta became the first person from his remote Mahore tehsil in Reasi district to crack the civil services examination, an achievement which he feel would inspire more youngsters in the coming years. Chagatta, who secured the 364th, is among seven candidates from the state who qualified the prestigious examination — the final […]

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LoC flare-up: Couple injured in firing in Rajouri

Jammu: A couple was injured Saturday in Pakistani firing along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district, officials said. Sanjeev Kumar, 32, and his wife Rita Kumari, 28, were hit by bullets inside their house during unprovoked firing by Pakistan in the Kalal area of Nowshera sector around 2.30 am, they […]

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Former independent MLA from Kathua joins BJP

Jammu: Days ahead of the LokSabha polls, former independent MLA Charanjit Singh Saturday joined the BJP in Kathua district of Jammu division. The 68-year-old Singh, who had won the Kathua assembly seat in 2008, joined the saffron party in the presence of BJP National vice-president and in-charge of Jammu and Kashmir, AvinashRaiKhanna and former minister […]

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NIA claims arrests of JeM operative involved in 2017 attack on CRPF camp

New Delhi: The NIA on Saturday arrested an operative of Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed in connection with the 2017 terror attack on a CRPF camp in South Kashmir, officials here said. Syed HilalAndrabi, 35, of Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district, was produced before a court which sent him to five days’ police custody, they said. […]

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