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 Press Trust of India

Amarnath yatra crosses 2 lakh mark

Srinagar: The number of pilgrims visiting the holy cave shrine of Amarnath Tuesday crossed the two-lakh mark as over 11,000 yatris paid obeisance at the naturally formed ice-lingam in the 3,880 metre high cave in south Kashmir Himalayas, officials said. “On the 16th day of the ongoing yatra, 11,538 yatris paid obeisance at the shrine,” […]

 KV News

Soldier slips to death along LoC

Srinagar: An army soldier died on Tuesday after he fell into a deep gorge in Pharkiyan along the Line of Control (LoC) in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district. A police official said that the army soldier Naik Ramandeep Singh (35) slipped and fell down into the gorge while he was part of a patrolling party near […]

 KV News

Unidentified male body retrieved from Jhelum

Srinagar: Police on Tuesday recovered an unidentified male body from river Jhelum near Shadipora area in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district. Reports said that some locals spotted the body floating in the river near Shadipora and informed the concerned police station immediately. A police team reached the spot and retrieved the body. Confirming it, a police […]

 Press Trust of India

‘Tackling terror’: Anti terror body NIA gets more teeth

‘Tackling terror’: Anti terror body NIA gets more teeth

NEW DELHI: Seeking to give more teeth to the National Investigation Agency (NIA), Lok Sabha on Monday passed a bill to allow it to probe terrorist acts against Indians and Indian interests abroad. The amendments will also allow the NIA to probe cybercrimes and cases of human trafficking. The NIA was set up in 2009 […]

 Press Trust of India

Govt will never misuse NIA law: Amit Shah

Govt will never misuse NIA law: Amit Shah

NEW DELHI: Refuting opposition’s claims of “misuse” of the NIA law, Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday asserted that the Modi government will never abuse it to target anyone but will ensure that terrorism is finished off irrespective of the religion of the accused. In an intervention during a discussion in Lok Sabha on the […]

 Owais Gul

India being turned into a ‘police state’: Congress

India being turned into a ‘police state’: Congress

New Delhi: Congress leader Manish Tewari on Monday accused the government of turning the country into a police state. Tewari opposed the bill, saying probe agencies are misused for “political vendetta” and “inspired media leaks” from them have turned the maxim of “innocent until proven guilty” on its head. He also claimed that the constitutional […]

 Press Trust of India

Police seeks adjournment of Kathua trial

Police seeks adjournment of Kathua trial

Says accused being a major or minor still undecided

Says accused being a major or minor still undecided

 KV Correspondent

Student killed as shed collapses due to gusty winds in Hajin village

Hail, windstorm damages several houses, crops

Hail, windstorm damages several houses, crops

 Press Trust of India

Cloud burst kills 23 in PaK village

Islamabad: At least 23 people were killed and several others are missing after a cloudburst caused flash flood in the Neelum Valley of the Pakistan administered Kashmir, officials said. A large number of homes in the Laswa area of the Valley were damaged and dozens of people were swept away in the flooding caused by […]

 Press Trust of India

Pakistani ‘intruder’ shot dead by BSF personnel

Jammu: A suspected Pakistani intruder was shot dead by BSF personnel while he was trying to cross the International Border in Samba district on Monday, officials said. The incident took place around 3 am when a man in his 60’s was trying to sneak into the Indian territory near the S M Pura border post, […]