Grenade lobbed at CRPF in Tral
Srinagar: Suspected militants on Saturday hurled a grenade at paramilitary at Bhatgund area of Tral in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Official sources told that militants attacked CRPF 185BN at Bhatgund. However there was not any immediate report of injuries on CRPF side so far. Unconfirmed reports said that two civilians sustained minor splinter injuries in […]
Kashmir students assault: Harayana police arrests three among six identified persons
Srinagar: Three persons have been arrested in connection with assault on Kashmiri students by Harayana police on Saturday. “We have arrested three among the six identified persons. They too will be arrested very soon,” Director General of Police (DGP) B.S. Sandhu, IPS, Harayana told Srinagar-based news agency. He said that the persons were identified from […]
Kashmiri students assault: Harayana police procures footage, forms SIT
Srinagar: Harayana police has registered a case and constituted a special investigation team (SIT) in to the assault of Kashmiri students in Mahendergarh town of the state. Director General of Police (DGP) B.S. Sandhu, IPS, Harayana told Srinagar-based news agency GNS that FIR no 53/2018 under section 148 (rioting), 149 (unlawful assembly), 341 (wrongful restraint), […]
Temperatures dip further in J&K
Srinagar: Minimum temperatures in the Kashmir Valley and the Ladakh region on Saturday plummeted further due to clear overnight sky, a Met official said. Srinagar city recorded a minimum temperature of minus 1.5, Pahalgam minus 4.2 and Gulmarg minus 7 degrees Celsius. At minus 13, Kargil was the coldest town in Jammu and Kashmir as […]
Kashmiri students’ assault: Oppn raises issue in JK Assembly, demands reply from govt
Jammu: Opposition in Jammu & Kashmir Assembly raised the issue of alleged assault on two Kashmiri youth by a mob in Haryana’s Mahendergarh. The opposition members while raising the issue demanded reply from state government. Pertinently, two Kashmiri youth were allegedly beaten by a mob in Harayana central university while returning to campus after offering Friday prayers. […]
US warns countries against aiding terrorists eyeing nuclear weapons
Washington: The United States has warned countries against supporting non-state actors and terrorist groups trying to obtain or employ nuclear weapons. “The US will hold accountable any state or non-state actor that supports terrorist efforts to obtain or employ a nuclear weapon,” Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Tom Shannon, told reporters at a Pentagon […]
Lawmaker says army personnel violated law
Langate: The Langate lawmaker, Engineer Abdul Rasheed Sheikh on Friday visited the Mawar Nallah and monitored the situation there after some chemical was ‘poured into it due to which many trout fishes died’. Er Rasheed in a statement issued here appealed the people of the area to not to pay heed to rumors. He, according […]
3rd successful Thyroid Surgery conducted in Sopore Hospital
Sopore: A team of specialist doctors on Friday conducted the third thyroid surgery in north Kashmir’s Sopore Hospital. Dr Farooq Dar ENT and neck surgeon said that “we admitted a 70 year old Thyroid patient Lal ud Din, resident of Armpora Sopore last night and conducted a Thyroid surgery through 200 gm of skin crease […]
Mirwaiz lashes out at govt for disallowing Friday prayers at Jamia Masjid
Srinagar: After defying the house detention, Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Friday denounced the government for imposing curbs in Srinagar and Shopian. While speaking to media persons after defying house detention, Mirwaiz lashed out at the Govt for disallowing Friday prayers at Jamia Masjid for the consecutive second week. “Joint Resistance Leadership […]
Grant amnesty to photojournalist Kamran Yousuf, demands lawmaker
Srinagar: A lawmaker from North Kashmir on Friday urged Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti to personally intervene in the case of photojournalist Kamran Yousuf who is detained at Tihar jail, Delhi. MLA Kupwara and senior PC leader Bashir Ahmad Dar urged the chief minister to intervene into the case of Kamran Yousuf who was arrested […]
