Tag: Jammu And Kashmir

New Delhi: Amid reports that Saudi Aramco is set to announce its IPO next month, which would be the world’s largest ever listing, India would be looking to expedite the $44 billion West Coast refinery project in Maharashtra, in which Saudi Aramco is to hold considerable stake, as well Reliance Industries Ltd $15 billion deal […]

Jammu/Srinagar: Three militants have been killed in a gunfight in Jammu and Kashmir that broke out on Saturday. The police said three militants were killed and all the hostages were rescued in Thor village of Ramban district where the militants had entered a house and took the inmates hostage. An army soldier was also killed […]

New Delhi: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Chief Mohan Bhagwat has said that some incidents of violence such as lynchings were actually being branded to defame India, Hindu society and create fear among some communities. Speaking at the foundation day celebrations at Maharashtra’s Nagpur on Tuesday, Bhagwat said that in such incidents, the RSS members do not […]

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a one-time payment of Rs 5.5 lakh as a resettlement package for the 5,300 displaced families who had come from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and initially settled outside Jammu and Kashmir but later relocated to the state. A “historical wrong” has been corrected by the government, Union minister Prakash […]

Srinagar: Two militants were reportedly killed on Wednesday in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district in a gunfight with the security forces, police sources said. Security forces surrounded Pazalpora village in Bijbehara area following specific information about a group of militants hiding there. “As the security forces closed on the hiding militants, they fired triggering an […]

Srinagar: Three local militants, who had joined terror groups recently, were killed on Wednesday in an encounter with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district, officials said. The encounter broke out at Pazalpora area in Anantnag on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday on a specific intelligence provided by the district police. All […]

New Delhi: The Indian Army on Sunday destroyed four terror launch pads in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), killing at least four Pakistani soldiers, in a counter-attack launched against the ceasefire violation that killed two soldiers and a civilian in Jammu and Kashmir, sources said here. Pakistani Army posts were also hit in the artillery gun attack […]

Srinagar: At least 35 Jaish-e-Mohammed and Hizbul Mujahideen militants were killed in retaliatory firing and shelling in Tangdhar sector of Kupwara district in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, Defence sources said. Along with that, five Pakistani Army men were killed in the firing. The sources said that Pakistan Army resorted to unprovoked firing on Indian […]

Jammu: Pakistani army violated ceasefire by targeting forward posts and villages with small arms firing and mortar shelling along the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, officials said. The shelling from across the border took place in Sunderbani sector around 6.30 a.m., prompting a retaliation by the Indian […]

New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry has issued a notification on reorganisation of “Jammu and Kashmir into the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the Union Territory of Ladakh”. The references, by whatever form, of words to the “Government of Jammu and Kashmir”, except where it is otherwise expressly provided, in such law or […]

New Delhi: Around five to six Pakistani Army personnel crossed the Line of Control (LoC) and entered Jammu and Kashmir amid heavy shelling and fired at an Indian Army post, killing a soldier on Thursday night. “It was a stand-off situation,” said a source in the Army. The incident took place at Nangi Tekri in […]

Jammu: A soldier was martyred in a gunbattle with terrorists who, aided by the cover fire by the Pakistan Army, tried to cross the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Friday, a defence spokesman said. The Indian Army observed suspicious movement of terrorists in Krishna Ghati Sector of Poonch district around […]

Srinagar: As many as 300-350 people, including women and children, stuck on the road to the Zojila Pass, connecting the Kashmir Valley to Ladakh, following heavy snowfall have been rescued by the Indian Army, a defence release said on Friday. According to the release, the continuing westerly disturbances led to heavy snowfall in the areas […]

Jammu: At least two Pakistani soldiers were reported to have been killed on Saturday in an exchange of fire with the Indian Army along the Line of Control (LoC) in Akhnoor sector of Jammu and Kashmir, defence sources said. They said the Pakistani troops violated ceasefire and fired on forward posts in Pallanwalla area of […]

Jammu: The Pakistan army violated ceasefire by resorting to shelling and firing on forward posts and villages along the Line of Control (LoC) in the twin districts of Rajouri and Poonch in Jammu and Kashmir, a defence spokesperson said on Sunday. The firing from across the border started in Rajouri’s Nowshera sector on Sunday morning […]