Two dozen protesters including some cops were wounded in anti-India protests in summer capital Srinagar and north Kashmir towns of Baramulla and Sopore after the Friday prayers.
For the third day running, protesters took to the streets in the Maisuma locality of the city as angry youth shouting slogans clashed with police and paramilitary Central Reserve [...]
Jammu, Jan 3 (IANS) The Jammu and Kashmir government has abandoned the plan to set up an elite anti-terrorism unit in the insurgency-riven state, five months after the formation of the squad was announced, a police official here said Sunday.
The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has been disbanded even before it was formally launched, [...]
Jammu, Jan 3 (IANS) The plan to set up an elite anti-terrorism group in insurgency-riven Jammu and Kashmir has been shelved, five months after the formation of the squad was announced, a police official here said Sunday.
The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has been disbanded even before it was formally launched, the official said.
‘The ATS never [...]
Srinagar, Jan 1 (IANS) Over a dozen people, including policemen, were injured in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla Friday afternoon as groups of youth pelted stones and clashed with police, an official said.
Groups of youth indulged in unprovoked violence in north Kashmir’s Baramulla town after Friday prayers, police said.
A senior police officer told IANS: ‘Some youth [...]
Srinagar, Dec 31 (ANI): Top brass of the Central Reserve Police Force on Thursday paid homage to four troops killed in an encounter with militants in Jammu and Kashmir.
The four men were shot dead by militants at Sopore region in north [...]
Srinagar, Dec 30 (IANS) Four paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers were killed and another critically injured when guerrillas ambushed a patrol party in north Kashmir’s Sopore town Wednesday, police said.
Police said guerrillas waiting in ambush in an apple orchard fired at a road opening party (ROP) of the CRPF in Warpora locality of [...]
Srinagar, Dec 30 (IANS) Three paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers were killed and one was critically injured in a guerrilla ambush in north Kashmir’s Sopore town Wednesday, a CRPF spokesperson said.
The spokesperson told IANS that a patrol party of the CRPF was ambushed by militants at Warpora locality in north Kashmir’s Sopore town, [...]
Srinagar, Dec 30 (IANS) Four paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers were killed in a guerrilla ambush in north Kashmir’s Sopore town Wednesday afternoon, police said.
A senior police officer told IANS that a patrol party of the CRPF was ambushed by militants at Warpora locality in north Kashmir’s Sopore town, 54 km from here. [...]
Srinagar, Dec 30 (IANS) Two paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers were killed and two others were injured in a guerrilla ambush in north Kashmir’s Sopore town Wednesday afternoon, police said.
A senior police officer told IANS that a patrol party of the CRPF was ambushed by militants at Warpora locality in north Kashmir’s [...]
Srinagar, Dec 25 (IANS) Seven people, including two Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers, were wounded Friday in a powerful grenade explosion in north Kashmir’s Sopore town.
A senior police officer said separatist guerrillas lobbed a grenade at a CRPF patrol near Gadakocha in Sopore, 54 km from here. Two troopers and five civilian bystanders were [...]
Srinagar, Dec 25 (IANS) Soon after Omar Abdullah took over as chief minister in January, he faced a series of challenges. Terror-riven Jammu and Kashmir hogged the headlines for violent protests over an alleged double rape and murder, a blanket ban on prepaid mobile phones and the young leader’s name being dragged into a sex [...]
Srinagar, Dec 22 (IANS) Three policemen were injured Tuesday evening when separatist guerrillas ambushed a police patrol in Kashmir’s Pampore town, a police official said. Two of them succumbed to their injuries in hospital.
A senior police officer said guerrillas fired indiscriminately at the police patrol in Kadalbal area of the town, 15 km from Srinagar, [...]
Srinagar, Dec 22 (IANS) Three policemen were injured Tuesday evening when separatist guerrillas ambushed a police patrol in Kashmir’s Pampore town, a police official said.
A senior police officer said guerrillas fired indiscriminately at the police patrol in Kadalbal area of the town, 15 km from Srinagar, famous for growing the world’s best saffron.
‘Two policemen and [...]
Srinagar, Dec 18 (IANS) Four people, including three paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers, were injured in a guerrilla attack in north Kashmir’s Sopore town Friday afternoon, police said.
‘The militants first lobbed a grenade and then fired from their automatic weapons at a CRPF bunker outside the State Bank of India branch in Sopore [...]
Srinagar, Dec 10 (IANS) Large flocks of cackling geese and ducks dot the evening sky in Kashmir these days. They herald the arrival of avian visitors from far off Siberia, Eastern Europe, the Philippines and China at their winter home.
Each year tens of thousands of these majestic navigators come to Kashmir to ward off the [...]
Srinagar, Dec 7 (IANS) Authorities imposed restrictions in Ladakh region’s Kargil town Monday after protests demanding the opening of the Kargil-Srinagar road. A few people have also been arrested, an official said.
Scores of protesters took to the streets in Kargil to demand the re-opening of the Zojila Pass connecting the Ladakh region with the rest [...]
Srinagar, Dec 7 (IANS) After performing at picturesque Gulmarg, US pop star Terra Naomi is set to sing on the banks of the Dal Lake here as part of her global campaign to create awareness about climate change.
‘She will sing the famous song ‘Say it’s possible’ wearing local attire and playing her own guitar. The [...]
Srinagar, Nov 18 (IANS) It was with joy tinged with sadness that Chief Minister Omar Abdullah inaugurated a school building, funded by an NGO, in north Kashmir. Pointing to the malaise of corruption, he wondered why the state government could not create similar facilities despite incurring the same expense.
The high school building in Uri town [...]
Srinagar, Nov 17 (IANS) One militant was killed and another terrorist, who was trained in Pakistan, was arrested as the army foiled yet another infiltration bid from across the Line of Control (LoC) in north Kashmir, an army spokesman said here Tuesday.
Lieutenant Colonel J.S. Brar, spokesman of the army’s 15th corps, said: ‘Terrorists made yet [...]
Srinagar, Nov 15 (IANS) A 23-year-old man was critically wounded when a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) trooper’s service rifle went off accidentally in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district.
A senior police officer said Riyaz Ahmad Ganai was critically wounded after the rifle of a CRPF trooper went off, letting out a sharp burst of automatic fire [...]
Srinagar, Nov 14 (IANS) Five separatist guerrillas were killed when the Indian Army foiled their attempt to sneak into Jammu and Kashmir, a military spokesman said.
Lt. Col. J.S. Brar of the army’s 15 Corps said a group of militants tried to cross the Line of Control (LoC) in north Kashmir’s Uri sector.
‘The infiltrators were [...]
Srinagar, Nov 13 (IANS) Hardline Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani was released on bail here Friday evening, hours after he was hospitalised while in detention.
Geelani was arrested from outside the Kashmir University on Wednesday, and was shifted to the high security central jail by the authorities’ Thursday evening.
He had to be hospitalised Friday morning [...]
Srinagar, Nov 12 (IANS) Hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani was Thursday evening shifted to the central jail in Srinagar, a day after he was arrested from outside the University of Kashmir campus where he met students and asked them to continue ‘peaceful struggle for the resolution of the Kashmir issue’.
Police arrested Geelani Wednesday immediately [...]
Srinagar, Nov 10 (IANS) A top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) guerrilla was Tuesday killed in an ongoing gunbattle in north Kashmir, according to a senior police officer.
The police officer said that security forces early Tuesday morning surrounded Sheikhpora Rafiabad village in Baramulla district in north Kashmir on specific information about presence of a group of militants in [...]
Srinagar, Nov 10 (IANS) Woollen clothes are out of the trunk, new ‘pheren’ robes are being ordered and, in the absence of consistent power supply, charcoal is being stored for earthen firepots – clear signs that winter has arrived in the Kashmir Valley.
Fresh snowfall in the mountains and incessant rain have made the temperature dip [...]
Srinagar, Oct 31 (IANS) One separatist guerrilla holed up in a house was killed by security forces in a gunfight that began early Saturday and continues in Sopore town of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.
‘One terrorist has been killed so far and the gunfight is still on in Chinkipora residential area of Sopore,’ a senior [...]
Sopore (Jammu and Kashmir), Oct.31 (ANI): One of the two militants engaging security forces in a gun battle in Jammu and Kashmir’s Sopore District has been killed, a television report said.
According to sources, the encounter began at 10.15 a.m. in [...]
Sopore (Jammu and Kashmir), Oct.31 (ANI): Security forces are engaged in a gun battle with two militants who are housed in a residential complex in Jammu and Kashmir’s Sopore District.
According to sources, the encounter began at 10.15 a.m. om Saturday. The security forces have cordoned off the area and operations are on to flush out [...]
Srinagar, Oct 30 (IANS) Two separatist guerrillas were killed Friday when the army foiled an infiltration bid across the Line of Control (LoC) that divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan, officials here said.
‘Two terrorists have been killed in an ongoing operation in north Kashmir’s Tangdhar sector of the LoC where a group of heavily armed [...]
Anantnag (Jammu and Kashmir), Oct 28 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday flagged off a new train service on the 18-km track linking south Kashmir with Srinagar and other places in the north of the valley. With this, the 129-km railway line in the Kashmir Valley is complete.
The 18-km stretch, not so long in terms [...]
