Gunfire along LoC perturbs peace in Machil sector
Pak says 4 of its civilians killed
Srinagar/Islamabad: Pakistani troops violated the ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Macchil sector of north Kashmir by firing mortar shells towards Indian positions on Thursday, Army officials said here. “On June 18, in the afternoon hours, Pakistan initiated an unprovoked ceasefire violation (CFV) along the LoC in Machil Sector by firing mortars […]
India elected non-permanent member of UN Security Council
Will boost counter terrorism actions by UNSC: India
United Nations/New Delhi: India was elected as non-permanent member of the powerful UN Security Council for a two-year term on Wednesday night, winning 184 votes in the 193-member General Assembly. Along with India, Ireland, Mexico and Norway also won the Security Council elections held Wednesday. India was a candidate for a non-permanent seat from the […]
Nepal hardens stance, passes bill to redraw map
Kathmandu: Nepal’s upper house of Parliament on Thursday unanimously voted to amend the Constitution to update the country’s new political map, laying claim over three strategically key areas along the border with it. India has already termed as “untenable” the “artificial enlargement” of territorial claims by Nepal after its lower house of Parliament on Saturday […]
Two relatives of Covid-19 victim die during cremation
Admin orders probe
Jammu: District Magistrate Jammu, Sushma Chouhan on Thursday evening ordered a magisterial probe after two family members of a Coronavirus patient died while performing his last rites. Official sources said that a man who tested positive for Coronavirus died in Government Medical College (GMC) Jammu on Wednesday evening. “The body was being cremated on Thursday […]
Two militants killed in south Kashmir encounters
One newly recruited militant held
Srinagar: Two unidentified militants were killed in two separate encounters in South Kashmir’s Pulwama and Shopian districts in 24-hours. Both operations are underway, security officials said Thursday. Officials said that encounter broke out between security forces and militants at Meej area of Pampore in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district early Thursday morning after joint teams of […]
LAC standoff: Pak will lookout to push in more militants: DGP
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Police chief Dilbag Singh on Thursday warned that Pakistan will try to infiltrate more militants and also give impetus to violence in the Kashmir Valley and elsewhere in view of the standoff between the armies of India and China in Ladakh. The Director General of Police, Jammu and Kashmir, Thursday chaired […]
Covid-19: Three more deaths reported, 149 test positive
Srinagar: Covid-19 claimed three more lives including a 55-year-old woman from Shopian district of south Kashmir on Thursday, taking the overall toll due to the virus to 72 in Jammu and Kashmir. “She was hypertensive and had also septicemia,” Medical Superintendent CD hospital, Dr Salim Tak, said. A resident of Neldoora Shopian, the woman was […]
Faceoff at LAC: China, India agree to ‘cool down’ tensions
Beijing: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and the two leaders agreed to “cool down” tensions on the ground “as soon as possible” and maintain peace and tranquility in the border area in accordance with the agreement reached between the two countries, an official statement said here. The telephonic […]
India ups the ante as Armed forces raise alert level
China claims sovereignty over Galwan Valley
New Delhi/ Beijing: Front-line bases of the Indian army and the air force along the nearly 3,500 km de-facto border with China were Wednesday put on high alert in view of the worst border clash between Indian and Chinese troops in Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh that left 20 Army personnel dead, official sources said. […]
‘Surveillance post set up by Chinese triggered clash’
New Delhi: A surveillance post set up by the Chinese Army on a narrow mountain trail in violation of an agreement was the trigger for the high altitude border clash in eastern Ladakh’s Galwan Valley in which at least 20 Indian soldiers were killed, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. Indian troops, commanded […]
