Man dies, two others injured as avalanche hits Doda village

Doda: A 40-year-old government employee was killed Saturday and two of his colleagues were injured after an avalanche struck a remote village in this hilly district, police said. A group of Public Health Engineering (PHE) department employees were performing their duties to restore drinking water supply in the snow-bound Gandoh when they came under the […]

MDTMG will help end militancy in JK: Guv

Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik Saturday said the newly set up multi-disciplinary terror monitoring group (MDTMG) would help put an end to the menace in the state. “Terror funding and terrorist organisationsympathisers are everywhere… Unless they are dealt with, terrorism cannot be wiped out,” Malik told reporters on the sidelines of a […]

ITBP sub-inspector commits suicide

Srinagar: A sub-inspector of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) committed suicide in Baramulla district of north Kashmir on Saturday, police said. Sub-Inspector Chandar Mani shot himself with his service rifle at a CRPF camp in Kunzar area of the north Kashmir district, they said. It is not yet known why the officer took the extreme step, […]

ED slaps Rs 15L penalty on three LeT ‘operatives’

Says it confiscated Rs 7 lakh hawala money

NEW DELHI: The ED said Friday that it has imposed a penalty of Rs 15 lakh on three alleged militant organisation operatives and has confiscated cash worth Rs 7 lakh in a 17-year-old funding case linked to the banned outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT). The penalty and confiscation action has been taken under the Foreign Exchange Management […]