SRINAGAR,NOV 2: Two militants were killed in an encounter with security forces in the Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, officials said. The encounter broke out near Halkan Gali in the Shangus-Larnoo area of the south Kashmir district. Of the two militants killed, one was a foreigner and the other a local. Their […]Continue Reading
SRINAGAR, OCT 8 : The National Conference-Congress alliance, which has secured a majority in the 90-member J&K Assembly, will be headed by NC vice president and former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. He would be the first chief minister of J&K Union Territory. NC president Farooq Abdullah today announced that Omar will be the chief minister […]Continue Reading
SRINAGAR, SEPT 30 : PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Monday said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the “biggest terrorist after Adolf Hitler” as the Jewish leader has turned Palestine and Lebanon into “gas chambers”. Mehbooba had earlier condemned the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Israeli airstrikes and cancelled her Continue Reading
SRINAGAR, SEPT 25 : Voting began on Wednesday for the second phase of the assembly election in Jammu and Kashmir in which over 2. 5 million voters will decide the fate of 239 candidates in the fray for 26 seats, including that of former chief minister of the erstwhile state Omar Abdullah, officials said. The […]Continue Reading
SRINAGAR, SEPT 18 : Long queues were seen at several booths early Wednesday as voting in the first phase of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly polls began on a brisk note, officials said. The assembly polls — the first since the abrogation of Article 370 — are being held in three phases. Polling is underway in […]Continue Reading
SRINAGAR, SEPT 14 : Three terrorists were killed on Saturday morning in an overnight encounter with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district, police said. They said a cordon-and-search operation was launched in Chak Tapper Kreeri in the north Kashmir district’s Pattan area late Friday night. The operation turned into an encounter after Continue Reading
SRINAGAR,AUG 29 : Three militants are believed to have been killed in two separate encounters along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district, the army said on Thursday. Another encounter is going in Rajouri in the Jammu region. According to an army official, a joint operation was launched by the army […]Continue Reading
SRINAGAR, JULY 27: Eight members of a family, including five children, were killed when their vehicle skidded off the road and fell into a gorge in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Saturday, officials said.A policeman, two women and five children aged between six and 16 are among the dead, they said.The victims were travelling […]Continue Reading
SRINAGAR, JULY 24: An unidentified terrorist was killed and a soldier injured in an overnight encounter in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district, the Army said on Wednesday. “Based on specific input regarding presence of terrorists in general area Kowut, Kupwara, a Joint Search Operation was launched by #IndianArmy and @JmuKmrPolice on days leading up to […]Continue Reading
SRINAGAR, JULY 16 : Four army personnel, including an officer, who were critically injured in a gunfight with heavily armed terrorists, succumbed to injuries in the Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir early Tuesday, official sources said. The encounter took place when the troops of Rashtriya Rifles and Special Operations Group of J&K Police launched […]Continue Reading