Tag: Jammu And Kashmir

  Jammu: Two Pakistan-trained LeT militants from Jammu and Kashmir were arrested soon after they returned to India via the Wagah-Attari border crossing in Punjab with valid passports and visas, police said on Friday. “Baramulla police, army and CRPF have arrested two militants who had gone to Pakistan on valid Pakistani visas to obtain arms training […]

Jammu: A Border Security Force (BSF) trooper and a civilian were injured in overnight Pakistan shelling and firing on the international border in R.S. Pura sector of Jammu district in Jammu and Kashmir. “Pakistan Rangers resorted to heavy shelling and firing on Indian positions late last evening in R.S. Pura sector resulting in injuries to […]

Washington: The US State Department has warned Americans to exercise increased caution in India due to crime and terrorism and to avoid going to Jammu and Kashmir except the Buddhist-dominated region of Ladakh. The State Department on Wednesday launched improvements on sharing information with US travellers to provide clear, timely and reliable safety and security […]

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik was arrested here on Wednesday while senior separatist leader Mirwaiz Umer Farooq was put under house arrest. Malik was taken into preventive custody from his uptown Abi Guzar Party office. Earlier, authorities placed Mirwaiz Farooq in house arrest at his residence at Nigeen on […]

Srinagar: Intense cold wave lashed Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday as the weather office said no relief was in sight for the next three days. “Cold wave conditions are likely to continue in the state for the next three days and the minimum temperatures could drop by a few degrees more in this period”, an official […]

Srinagar: The ongoing cold wave in Jammu and Kashmir will continue unabated until January 5, the weather office said on Saturday. “We are expecting light rain and snow in the state after January 5. The present cold wave conditions are likely to continue until then,” a Met Department official said. The minimum temperatures in Srinagar, […]

Srinagar: Night temperatures throughout Jammu and Kashmir improved on Wednesday as the Met forecast light rain and snow in the higher reaches on Thursday and Friday. Minimum temperatures improved due to nightlong cloud cover in the state, a Met official said. Srinagar recorded a minimum temperature of 0.7 (rising above the freezing point) against Tuesday’s […]

Jammu: Pakistani troops opened fire on an Indian Army patrol, killing a Major and three soldiers, along the Line of Control (LoC) in Keri sector of Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district today, officials said. The latest violation of the ceasefire agreement took place at a time when Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti was camping in Rajouri […]

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Police has detained a French journalist for making a documentary on pellet victims. “Comiti Paul Edward has been detained for violating visa norms in Srinagar,” a senior police officer said. Edward was arrested on Sunday evening from Kothibagh area. He was meeting separatists and pellet victims in the city to shoot […]

Srinagar: Militants have killed an off-duty Indian Army Jawan whose body was found in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district on Saturday, informed an official. Defence Ministry spokesman, Colonel Rajesh Kalia said: “Sepoy Irfan Ahmad Dar, 23, a resident of Senzen village in Shopian district, was a serving soldier. He was posted in a Territorial Army […]

Srinagar: Three Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants hailing from Pakistan were killed on Tuesday in a gunfight with the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district, police said. The security forces cordoned off Magam area in Handwara after receiving specific information about the presence of the militants. As the security forces closed in on the hiding […]

Srinagar: Three militants of the Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) outfit were killed in an overnight gunfight with the security forces in Aglar village of Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district, police said. “One soldier of 44 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) was martyred and two soldiers and a civilian injured during this operation,” police said, adding the encounter has ended. […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday deferred the hearing on challenge to the Constitution’s Article 35A granting special rights to natives of Jammu and Kashmir as the Central government told the apex court that it may have implications for the dialogue being held by its interlocutor Dineshwar Sharma to find solution to the state’s […]

Jammu: Three children were injured on Saturday as Pakistan shelled Indian positions on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, officials said. Indian troops were retaliating. Police said Pakistan Army resorted to unprovoked, indiscriminate shelling and firing in Balakote sector of Poonch district on Saturday evening, in which the children were injured. […]

Srinagar:  Two militants were killed on Saturday in a gunfight with the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Based on specific intelligence inputs about the presence of militants in Litter village the security forces had launched an early morning operation, a police officer said. When the hiding militants fired at the approaching security […]