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 KV Correspondent

No civilian traffic will move on JK Highway on two days every week

JAMMU: The administration has decided to close down the arterial Jammu-Srinagar National Highway for civilian traffic for two days in a week. The measure has been announced keeping in view the large movement of security personnel for deployment during the Parliamentary elections. An official said that the associated possibility of any fidayeen attack on security […]

 Press Trust of India

LeT militant involved in ‘arms loot’ held

Srinagar: A Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist, the prime suspect in the looting of weapons from the residence of a legislator last year, has been arrested from a hospital here, police said Wednesday. Danish Haneef was taken into custody from a private hospital in Rajbagh area of the city where he was undergoing treatment for injuries sustained during […]

 KV News

Gunmen shoot former PDP activist in Kulgam

Srinagar: A former PDP activist and a Panch was injured after shot at by suspected militants at Shalipora village in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Wednesday evening. Reports said that the masked gunmen believed to be militants barged inside the house of Abdul Majeed Dar son-in-law of Ghulam Ahmad Malla and fired upon him. The […]

 Press Trust of India

Ceasefire violations: Pak summons Indian diplomat

Ceasefire violations: Pak summons Indian diplomat

Islamabad: Pakistan on Wednesday summoned India’s Deputy High Commissioner GauravAhluwalia and condemned the “unprovoked ceasefire violations” by the Indian forces along the Line of Control which resulted in the killing of one civilian. Foreign Office spokesman Dr Mohammad Faisal, who is also the Director General (South Asia & SAARC), summoned Ahluwalia and “condemned the unprovoked […]

 Press Trust of India

NIA arrests Kashmiri youth after being deported from UAE

New Delhi: Nisar Ahmed Tantray, whose brother Noor Trali is believed to have helped revive the Jaish-e-Mohammed terror outfit in Jammu and Kashmir, has been arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) after being deported from the United Arab Emirates in connection with an attack on a CRPF camp in South Kashmir in 2017, officials […]

 Press Trust of India

US, China slug it out on Azhar listing

Moving the issue to UNSC complicates its resolution, says China

Beijing: China on Wednesday hit out at the US for threatening to use “all available resources” to designate Pakistan-based JeM chief MasoodAzhar as a ‘global terrorist’, saying Washington’s move is complicating the issue and not conducive to peace and stability in South Asia. After China put a hold on a French proposal to list Azhar […]

 Press Trust of India

Congress promises to review AFSPA in JK

Congress promises to review AFSPA in JK

Says nothing will be allowed to change state’s constitutional position

Says nothing will be allowed to change state’s constitutional position

 Press Trust of India

LoC flare-up: Seven Pak posts destroyed during shelling, 3 Pak army men killed

LoC flare-up: Seven Pak posts destroyed during shelling, 3 Pak army men killed

Jammu: Seven Pakistani posts across the LoC were destroyed as the Indian Army retaliated to cross border shelling by Pakistani troops who targeted border areas in Rajouri and Poonch districts, officials said Tuesday. There have been several casualties to Pakistani troops too, they said. As a precautionary measure, all schools along the borderline in Poonch […]

 Press Trust of India

Study group to suggest security upgrade on JK highway

Study group to suggest security upgrade on JK highway

Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Police chief Dilbag Singh said a study group has been set up to suggest measures to strengthen security along the 270-km Jammu-Srinagar highway, following the Pulwama attack. Singh said two suicide attacks were foiled by police with killing of two Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorists after the February 14 terror attack in which […]

 Press Trust of India

Omar defends comment on return of Prez, PM posts for JK

Omar defends comment on return of Prez, PM posts for JK

Says NC will strive hard for restoring the terms of accession

Srinagar: National Conference vice-president Omar Abdullah Tuesday defended his statement that his party would strive hard for restoring the terms of accession of Jammu and Kashmir, including the provisions for having a ‘sadr-e-riyasat’ and wazir-e-azam in the state. “I have not said anything wrong. I have only reiterated what is a reality. Is it not […]