Tag: Srinagar

Srinagar: A youth run over by a CRPF vehicle here a day ago succumbed to his injuries on Saturday prompting authorities in Jammu and Kashmir to suspended internet services in Srinagar and Badgam districts. Kaiser Ahmed, 21, was ploughed down by the Central Reserve Police Force vehicle in the old city area of Nowhatta during […]

Jammu: Pakistani rangers have violated ceasefire on the international border (IB) in Jammu and Samba districts. The Pakistani Army resorted to unprovoked firing at the Border Security Force outposts in Arnia, Ramgarh and Chamliyal areas of Jammu and Kashmir late on Sunday, the BSF sources said. “The firing started at 10 p.m. The BSF retaliated […]

  Srinagar: On a day-long Jammu and Kashmir visit to inaugurate developmental projects, two days after the government announced an unconditional Ramadan ceasefire in the state, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday asked “misguided” Kashmiri youth to join “mainstream” India for a life with dignity. Amid a separatist called shutdown and protest march and restrictions […]

Srinagar: Security forces killed one militant in an ongoing gunfight in Srinagar’s densely populated Chatabal area on Saturday, police said. Following a tip-off about the presence of militants in the area, security forces including state police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel surrounded Gasi Mohalla. “One holed-up militant is still engaged in the gunfight […]

New Delhi: A Srinagar-bound Air India flight with 180 passengers developed a snag mid-air and made an emergency landing at the Delhi airport, police said. All passengers are safe. According to Deputy Commissioner of Police Sanjay Bhatia, the incident occurred around 10.30 a.m. “Air India Flight 825, from New Delhi to Srinagar, returned to IGIA […]

Srinagar: Heavy deployment of security forces was made in Srinagar and other sensitive places in the Kashmir Valley to maintain peace and law and order, even though the separatists did not call for a shutdown, officials said. The authorities decided to close all educational institutions and postpone exams scheduled for Wednesday as tension continued in […]

Jammu: The Jammu-Srinagar national highway remained closed for the fourth consecutive day on Thursday as authorities said landslide clearance work is still in progress. “No traffic will be allowed on the highway as road clearance operations are on at Battery Cheshma and some other parts of the road,” a traffic department official said. At least […]

Srinagar: The over 20-hour long gunfight between holed up militants and the security forces continued in Srinagar on Tuesday as fresh firing exchanges started. Two Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants are holed up inside an under construction building in Karan Nagar area since Monday after they were forced to withdraw and later trapped inside the building following […]

Srinagar: A paramilitary trooper was killed in an ongoing gunfight with militants holed up in a building after a failed terror bid on a CRPF camp in Srinagar, police said. The trooper was wounded in the shootout as the security forces prepared for a final assault against the holed-up militants, a police officer said. He was […]

Srinagar: Authorities imposed restrictions in Srinagar and Shopian districts on Friday to prevent a separatist-called march in protest of the killing of five civilians over the last few days. Police said restrictions under section 144 of the Code Of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) have been imposed in Rainawari, Nowhatta, M.R.Gunj, Safakadal, Khanyar, Maisuma and Kralkhud in […]

Srinagar: Authorities on Sunday imposed restrictions here to prevent separatist-called protests against the death of two civilians in army firing on Saturday. Two youths were killed and eight other protestors injured in an army firing when a mob attacked an army convoy in Ganowpora village of Shopian district on Saturday. Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister […]

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 […]

Srinagar: Srinagar witnessed the coldest night of the season so far as the minimum temperature dropped to minus 1.7 degrees Celsius on Tuesday. “The coldest town in Jammu and Kashmir was, however, Leh where the minimum was minus 10.2,” an official of the Met Department said here. While Kargil town was at minus 6.6 degrees […]

Srinagar: Weekly peace bus service Karvan-e-Aman left Srinagar carrying Muzaffarabad-bound passengers on Monday. “The exact number of passengers crossing the Line of Control (LoC) for Muzaffarabad would be confirmed only after more people board the bus at the Salamabad trade and travel facilitation centre near the Uri town,” an official said here. The Karvan-e-Aman bus […]