Illegal constructions pulled down during SMC demolition drive in posh uptown localities
Srinagar: A number of illegal structures in Rajbagh, Jawahar Nagar, Gogji Bagh and Wazir Bagh areas of Srinagar were demolished on Wednesday by Srinagar Municipal Corporation. A team of Enforcement wing headed by Commissioner Srinagar Municipal Corporation Khurshid Ahmad Sanai, accompanied by Chief Enforcement Officer and the concerned SHO of Rajbagh, carried the drive early […]
Suspect in Lethpora attack killed during encounter

One army man killed, three others sustain injuries during firefight
One army man killed, three others sustain injuries during firefight
Youth’s body recovered from encounter site

Srinagar: The body of a 20-year-old college student was recovered on Tuesday near an encounter site in Anantnag district, where a militant and an Army officer were killed a day ago, police said. Nasir Ahmad Mir’s body bore bullet wounds and was recovered near the encounter site in Achabal area in the morning, an official […]
7 civilians injured in grenade blast

Srinagar: At least seven civilians were injured in a grenade attack by militants on a police station in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Tuesday, officials said. The militants lobbed the grenade towards the police station, but it exploded on the roadside, causing injuries to seven passers-by, the officials said. The security forces have cordoned […]
Five youth go missing in south Kashmir, three join militant ranks

Pulwama: Despite a surge in the number of encounters and subsequent killing of militants reports about youth joining the militant ranks in south Kashmir are pouring in. Reports said that at least five youth from Pulwama have gone missing this month who have been identified as Irshad Ahmad Dar son of Mohammad Yousuf Dar resident […]
Infiltration from across the border has stopped: Guv Malik

Shirdi (Maha): Governor Satya Pal Malik claimed that infiltration of militants into the Valley has stopped in the last five months, while incidents of stone pelting have also gone down in the period. Kashmir has been under the President’s rule since June 20, 2018. Stating that two to three militants are getting killed in the […]
Run-up to assembly elections: JK gets first pre-poll alliance as Shah Feasal, Er Rasheed join hands

Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Movement headed by former bureaucrat Shah Faesal Tuesday forged a pre-poll alliance in the state with the Awami Ittehad Party led by former MLA Sheikh Abdul Rasheed. Faesal and Rasheed announced the pre-poll alliance at a crowded press conference here, naming the coalition as the Peoples United Front (PUF). […]
Two killed as rafting boat capsizes in Pahalgam
Eight others injured in fast flowing Lidder Nallah at Pahalgam
Srinagar: An employee of the tourism department and a participant of a rafting championship named after brave heart, Rouf Ahmad Dar died while as eight others were injured after a boat capsized in a river Lidder at Pahalgam in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Tuesday evening. Reports said that the boat carrying the employee identified […]
Tourism dept announces probe
Srinagar: The Department of Tourism Kashmir will conduct an inquiry into the tragic raft capsize at Pahalgam in which its employee and a participant drowned in river Lidder after the closure of the events for the day. An employee Rinku Raja from Udhampur and a participant Sanjna hailing from Reasi died in the incident when […]
Army men beat up cop, driver in separate incidents

Srinagar: A school bus driver and a traffic policeman were allegedly beaten up Tuesday by Army personnel in two separate incidents in Srinagar and Shopian districts of south Kashmir. A video of the terrified school children has gone viral on social media with the kids claiming that the “driver uncle” was thrashed by the Army […]