SRINAGAR, Jan 30 (Agencies): Security forces on Thursday arrested a militant from Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. Kaiser Ahmad Rather was nabbed from Lalpora in Kupwara district, they said. Rather was arrested during an anti-militancy operation in his native village in the north Kashmir region The militant was being questioned by police. […]

SRINAGAR, Jan 30 (Agencies): One-way traffic was resumed on Thursday on the national highway, the only all weather road connecting Kashmir valley with the rest of the country, after stranded vehicles from Jammu were cleared. Traffic will ply from Srinagar to Jammu and no vehicle will be allowed from opposite direction, a traffic police official […]

SRINAGAR, Jan 30 (Agencies): A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service rifle inside the camp in Pahalgam area of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district. Reports reaching Aagency, said that a CRPF personnel from 116 battalions, posted at Pahalgam, shot himself dead while on duty today. Soon after […]

SRINAGAR, Jan 30 (Agencies): Security Forces launch Cardon and Search operation (CASO) at Amiraabad Tral area of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district this morning following information about the presence of militants in the area. Army’s 42 Rashtriya Rifles,180Bn of Central Reserve Police and Jammu and Kashmir Police jointly launched search operation. House to house searches underway […]

SRINAGAR, Jan 29 (Agencies): The Kashmir Press Club has expressed concern over the continuous internet blockade for journalists in Kashmir for the last 177 days. The press club in a statement described the move as a deliberate attempt to stifle the press in Kashmir. The statement said that the January 10 Supreme Court verdict has […]

SRINAGAR, Jan 29 (Agencies): There has been a spurt in anti-terror operations across Kashmir with as many as 13 militants getting killed in seven encounters in the last one month alone. With the killing of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Qari Yasir and his three accomplices on Saturday, the entire leadership of JeM in Kashmir has been […]

SRINAGAR, Jan 28 (Agencies): The Dawar Battalion of Indian Army’s Snow Leopard Brigade airlifted more than 100 stranded civilians including critically ill patients and elderly people from Gurez valley in Jammu and Kashmir. The valley is has been cut off from Kashmir and a large number of locals have been stranded since early November due […]

SRINAGAR, Jan 28 (Agencies): Traffic on the Srinagar to Jammu national highway, the only all weather road connecting Kashmir valley with the rest of the country, was suspended again on Tuesday due to fresh snowfall since early this morning. Traffic was to ply from Jammu to Srinagar on Tuesday, a traffic police official said. However, […]

SRINAGAR, Jan 28 (Agencies): Security forces arrested a suspected Lashkher-e-Toiba (LeT) after he allegedly hurled a hand grenade in Sopore in north Kashmir district of Baramulla, official sources said on Tuesday. They said panic gripped in Tujjar Sharief, Sopore, in Baramulla when unidentified persons hurled a hand grenade. “The grenade exploded near a house without […]