Tag: Jammu Kashmir

Security forces in Poonch, Jammu and Kashmir, achieved a significant breakthrough by recovering three IEDs from a terrorist hideout. Weighing between 3 to 20 kgs, the devices were safely destroyed by bomb squads, thwarting potential attacks ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.

Officials said a boat carrying seven people capsized in the river at Gandbal in the district.

At least 10 passengers died after a cab fell into gorge on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway in Ramban. As per the officials, the cab was enroute to Srinagar from Jammu when the driver lost control over the vehicle and it subsequently fell into a 300-ft gorge.

First ever Formula-4 car racing event organised at the banks of Dal Lake in Jammu Kashmir’s Srinagar on Sunday. The drivers who had participated in the event amazed the people with their skills.

Jammu & Kashmir is gearing up to welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The upcoming rally will be PM Modi’s first public rally in the valley since the abrogation of Article 370.

A student from the Darul Uloom Deoband in Uttar Pradesh has been nabbed by police for issuing threat about another Pulwama-like attack.

A 72-year-old retired police officer and local "muezzin", Mohammad Shafi Mir, was shot dead by terrorists on Sunday morning while he was giving a call for "azaan" from a mosque in north Kashmir's Baramulla district, leaving the community in shock.

Security forces had started a joint operation in the Surankote area after intelligence that a group of terrorists was hiding there.

Three soldiers were killed and 3 others injured in a terrorist attack on their vehicle amid in an encounter between terrorists and security forces in J&K's Poonch on Thursday, officials said.

In unanimous verdict, Supreme Court on Monday said the 2019 order scrapping Article 370 was 'valid'. SC upheld the Centre’s decision to scrap provisions of Article 370 of Constitution, which had granted special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu & Kashmir.

His remarks came after the Supreme Court’s Constitution bench on Monday upheld the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution while announcing its judgment on a series of petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370 and the division of Jammu and Kashmir into two Union territories.

CJI Chandrachud is pronouncing the verdict on the batch of petitions challenging the constitutionality of the 2019 Presidential Order taking away the special status accorded to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir and its bifurcation into two Union Territories.

After the security forces cordoned off the area, terrorists hiding there started firing, drawing retaliation by the security forces.

Rashmi Ranjan Swain hails from Odisha’s Rourkela. A 1991 batch IPS officer, Swain held key positions in the Jammu and Kashmir Police before assuming charge as the DGP.

The security forces launched a cordon and search operation in the forested Patrada area on Monday and fired a few rounds after noticing the suspicious movement of two people, the officials said.