Tag: Jammu Amp Kashmir

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Clashes erupted as educational institutions re-opened in J&K

Srinagar: As colleges and universities opened on Monday after a week in the Kashmir Valley, students again clashed with security forces and resorted to stone pelting, officials said. Students of the S. P. College assembled on the Maulana Azad Road and started pelting stones on security forces causing blockade of one of the busiest roads […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
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India's longest highway tunnel set to open

Udhampur: March 31 (IANS) India will set a benchmark in infrastructure when the country’s longest highway tunnel of 10.98 km opens between Udhampur and Ramban in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday. To be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, it will also be Asia’s first longest bi-directional tunnel with fully transverse ventilation system, according to […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
Encounter breaks out between militants, security forces in J&K's Pulwama

Srinagar: An encounter broke out between militants and security forces in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, police said. The security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Aripal village of the south Kashmir district this morning following specific information about the presence of militants there, a police official said. He said […]

  • Tuesday, 29 June 2021
China urges India to abide by 'historic treaty' on border

Beijing: China today referred to the 1890 UK-China treaty, which it claims demarcated the Sikkim sector of the Sino-Indian border as it urged New Delhi to abide by its provisions, a day after Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman made her maiden visit to the Nathu La post. Reacting to Sitharaman’s visit to the area, the Chinese […]

  • Tuesday, 29 June 2021
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Amarnath Yatra suspended due to bad weather, Met office forecasts rain

Srinagar: The annual Hindu pilgrimage Amarnath Yatra in Jammu and Kashmir was suspended today due to landslides on the routes to the Himalayan cave shrine. “No yatri will be allowed to move towards the holy cave either from Baltal or Nunwan (Pahalgam) base camps today,” a police officer told IANS. The situation will be reviewed […]

  • Tuesday, 22 June 2021
Violence in Jammu despite curfew, FIR filed against policeman

Jammu: Protests were reported from various places in Jammu yesterday despite indefinite curfew imposed in parts of the city following violence over Sikh militant leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale’s posters in which a youth was killed. Meanwhile, police lodged an FIR against the Senior Superintendent of Police’s (SSP) security guard for firing at Sikh protesters. Protests […]

  • Tuesday, 22 June 2021
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Three Militants Killed In Encounter With Security Forces In J-K's Shopian, One Surrenders

Srinagar: Three Al-Badr militants were killed while one surrendered before security forces in an encounter in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, police said. Acting on a specific…

  • Thursday, 06 May 2021
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After Pakistani intrusion, Indian military on high alert: Services

New Delhi: The Indian Air Force (IAF), Army and Navy said on Thursday that they were on high alert and that Pakistani jets tried to target Indian military installations in Jammu and Kashmir a day earlier but were pushed back. Air Vice Marshal R.G.K. Kapoor told the media at a tri-service press conference that the […]

  • Monday, 03 May 2021
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Three killed in Pakistan shelling on LoC

Jammu: Three civilians were killed in shelling by the Pakistani army on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, officials said on Saturday. Police said a woman and her two children were killed in Salotri village of Jhalas area in Krishna Ghati sector of the LoC when a shell fired by […]

  • Monday, 03 May 2021
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Seven killed in Jammu and Kashmir gunfights

Srinagar: Six militants and a 12-year-old boy were killed on Friday in three separate gunfights in Jammu and Kashmir, police said. Two militants and a the boy, who was taken hostage, were killed in an encounter in Bandipora district’s Mir Mohalla area. “One Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander is among the two militant victims,” the police said. […]

  • Monday, 03 May 2021
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Yasin Malik-led JKLF banned under anti-terror law

New Delhi: The Yasin Malik-led Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) was banned by the Centre under anti-terror law on Friday, officials said. The outfit has been banned for alleged promotion of secessionist activities in Jammu and Kashmir, they said. They said the organisation has been banned under various provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. […]

  • Monday, 03 May 2021
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Police detains 21 for stone pelting in Pulwama

Srinagar: Police detained 21 persons during nocturnal raids in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district. They were picked up from Muran village of Pulwama district for their suspected involvement in incidents of stone pelting, police said.

  • Saturday, 01 May 2021
Kids fiddling with explosive device in Jammu, injured

Srinagar: Two minor boys were injured on Wednesday while fiddling with an explosive device in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district, police sources said. The boys identified as Shahid, 12, and Eiklaq, 11, were injured in Damhal Hanjipora village. “Both were shifted to hospital where doctors said their condition was stable,” sources said. Security forces have advised […]

  • Saturday, 01 May 2021
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Civilian among three killed in Shopian gunfight

Srinagar: While a police statement said that three militants were killed in a gunfight in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district, it was confirmed later that one of the victim was a civilian. The police said in a statement on Thursday that three militants were killed in the gunfight that took place earlier in the day in […]

  • Saturday, 01 May 2021
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Restrictions imposed in Srinagar over separatist march

Srinagar: Authorities have imposed restrictions in Srinagar on Tuesday to prevent a separatist-called commemoration march. The Hurriyat Conference has called for the march to the Martyrs Graveyard in the Old City’s Eidgah area to pay homage to two senior separatist leaders, Mirwaiz Moulana Moulvi Muhammad Farooq and Abdul Gani Lone, who were killed by unidentified […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
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