The security forces gunned down two militants belonging to Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) outfit after a prolonged encounter in the Kashmir Valley on Thursday.he 15-hour gun battle started on Wednesday in Kulgam district of South Kashmir.
Two personnel of Special Operations Group of police were also injured in the encounter.
The killed militants have been identified as [...]
A Lashkar-e-Taiba militant was gunned down in a fierce gunbattle with security forces in south Kashmir Wednesday evening, police said.
The gunfight, which was still on late Wednesday night, also left two soldiers and a policeman wounded in Tangmarg Watu village of Kulgam district, nearly 70 km from here.
The shootout began after police and army [...]
Two security men were injured in a gunfight between guerrillas hiding inside a house and troops who laid seige to it in Kulgam district in south Kashmir Wednesday evening.
‘A Rashtriya Rifles contingent and the local police have surrounded the house in Tangmarg Watu village in Kulgam,’ a senior police officer said. The gun battle [...]
The cold wave continued to be severe in Jammu and Kashmir Sunday as the mercury dipped in Ladakh region with district capital Leh recording a minimum temperature of minus 21.4 degrees Celsius.
‘The minimum temperature in Srinagar was minus 4.6 degrees Celsius while it was minus 21.4 degrees in Leh and minus 17 degrees in Kargil [...]
Home Minister P. Chidambaram Friday said security forces must maintain a ‘high level of vigilance’ considering that Jammu and Kashmir remains vulnerable to militant attacks.
The home minister’s comments come after security forces killed two guerrillas who were holed up in a hotel building following a 23-hour gun battle in Srinagar’s Lal Chowk area that ended [...]
Srinagar, Jan 1 (IANS) Amid intelligence reports that he figures on the target list of militants, separatist leader Yasin Malik was taken into a preventive custody Friday when he was on way to a south Kashmir village to address a rally there, police said.
Malik, who is the chief of the pro-independence Jammu and Kashmir Liberation [...]
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 16 (IANS) A day after the shutdown in Kashmir Valley, fresh protests erupted in parts of Srinagar Wednesday over the CBI probe report into the death of two young women in Shopian. The Shopian bar association also went on a day’s strike.
Angry youth shouted slogans against the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that [...]
Srinagar, Dec 16 (IANS) Fresh protests erupted in parts of Srinagar Wednesday over the CBI probe report into the death of two young women in Shopian. The Shopian bar association also went on a day’s strike in the district.
Angry youth shouted slogans against the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that has ruled out rape and [...]
Srinagar, Dec 14 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Monday said the deaths of two women in south Kashmir’s Shopian district, which triggered a massive furore in the Kashmir Valley this year, were due to drowning and neither of them was raped or murdered.
‘The two women died due to drowning and were not raped [...]
Srinagar, Dec 14 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Monday submitted its 66-page probe report into the alleged rape and murder of two women in south Kashmir Shopian district which triggered a massive furore in the Kashmir Valley this year.
The report was filed before the Jammu and Kashmir High Court that was yet to [...]
Srinagar, Dec 14 (ANI): The production of trout fish has increased in the Kashmir Valley this year due to pleasant weather conditions and a proper breeding of fish by the fishers department.
Last year, the production of trout [...]
Srinagar, Nov 24 (IANS) Three passengers were killed and nine injured Tuesday when their bus collided with a speeding truck in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, police said.
The accident took place at Sangam, 48 km from here, in Anantnag district. The dead were men. The injured included two children.
Poonch (J-K), Nov 16 (ANI) Wildlife authorities rescued a black bear trapped in a river of Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district.
On being chased away by the wildlife department officials, the bear ran towards the Kalai River and was trapped. Officials captured the bear using a net and an anaesthetic injection.
“Our prime concern was the safety [...]
Srinagar, Nov 16 (IANS) Two soldiers of the Indian Army and two separatist guerrillas were killed in separate gunfights in Jammu and Kashmir Monday, authorities said.
The separatist guerrillas made an infiltration bid into the Kashmir Valley in the north Keran sector of the Line of Control (LOC) late Sunday when soldiers challenged them, an army [...]
Srinagar, Nov 2 (IANS) A wild bear mauled to death two militants of the Hizbul Mujahideen outfit in a south Kashmir forest Monday, officials said.
A spokesman of the army said a wild bear entered the forest hideout of the separatist guerrillas and killed two of them in Kulgam district.
‘The bear entered the hideout of the [...]
Srinagar, Oct 30 (IANS) Senior separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani Friday said he was ready to engage in a dialogue with India, provided the government accepted that Kashmir was a disputed territory.
‘India should first accept that Kashmir is a disputed territory and then we shall enter into a dialogue with the Indian government,’ Geelani, chairman [...]
Anantnag (Jammu and Kashmir) Oct 28 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said here Wednesday that he felt the situation in his state was improving as both Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi did not use a bullet-proof screen while addressing the people.
‘Today I felt for the first time that [...]
Anantnag (Jammu and Kashmir), Oct 28 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday said his government was ready to discuss all issues with Pakistan, but asked Islamabad to ‘curb the activities of those elements that are engaging in terrorism in India’.
After underlining that his government was ready to discuss all subjects with Pakistan, he said: ‘For [...]
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 [...]
Srinagar, Oct 27 (IANS) An isolated village in Kishtwar district of Jammu region wore a festive look and its entire population moved out on the road to have a glimpse of the first ever bus to enter the village.
There was jubilation all around in Inshan village Monday with the residents waiting for hours for [...]
Jammu, Oct 16 (IANS) Gujjars in Jammu and Kashmir have demanded an aid package for the nomadic community, which its leaders alleged was a victim of neglect by successive governments in the state.
Lashing out at the state government led by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah for its indifference toward the Gujjars, Gujjar United Front (GUF) president [...]
Srinagar, Oct 9 (ANI): Jammu and Kashmir Police assisted by the army and the CRPF foiled an attempted fidayeen (suicide) strike by killing Hizbul terrorist Omar Maviya here on Friday.
A huge cache of ammunition including 30 kilograms of RDX, suicide vests with wires and two batteries, two grenades and [...]
Srinagar, Oct 8 (ANI): Security forces are continuing with their manhunt for Lashkar -e -Taiba (LeT) militants hiding in the jungles of Pampore in southern Kashmir.
Seventy two hours of their search and nab operation, the army has busted a terrorist hideout but failed to nab the militants who managed to flee under the cover of [...]
Srinagar, Oct 6 (IANS) Four people, including two paramilitary Border Security Force (BSF) troopers were wounded Tuesday afternoon in this Jammu and Kashmir summer capital in a powerful explosion, officials said.
A senior police officer said guerrillas tossed a hand grenade at a parked BSF vehicle in Lal Chowk this afternoon, wounding two troopers sitting in [...]
Srinagar, Oct 6 (IANS) Four people including two paramilitary Border Security Force (BSF) troopers were wounded Tuesday afternoon in a powerful explosion in the high security city centre, Lal Chowk, officials said.
A senior police officer said guerrillas tossed a hand grenade at a parked BSF vehicle in Lal Chowk this afternoon, wounding two troopers sitting [...]
Srinagar, Sep 29 (IANS) Three paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were killed and a woman bystander was wounded in a militant attack in north Kashmir’s Sopore town Tuesday, police said.
A senior police officer said separatist guerrillas fired at a CRPF patrol party near the old bus stand in the town, 54 km from [...]
Srinagar, Sep 27 (IANS) In a startling revelation, the gynaecologist who conducted autopsies on the bodies of the two women who were raped and murdered in south Kashmir’s Shopian town has admitted that she did not take the vaginal swabs of the victims but submitted samples of other women, sources here said Sunday.
According to the [...]
Srinagar, Sep 27 (IANS) In a startling revelation, the gynaecologist who conducted autopsies on the bodies of the two women who were raped and murdered in south Kashmir’s Shopian town has admitted that she did not take the vaginal swabs of the victims but submitted slides of other women, sources here said Sunday.
According to the [...]
Srinagar, Sep 24 (IANS) Two guerrilla commanders were gunned down by the security forces during an operation in south Kashmir Thursday, police said.
A senior police officer said troops of 9 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) surrounded a forest area near Damhal Hanjipora in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district on specific information about presence of a group of heavily [...]
