Crescent Kashmir

Protests in Srinagar

Protests in Srinagar

Recently a woman was killed in Batmaloo during a cordon and search operation triggering a lot of protests and demand for a probe into the incident. The family members of the deceased woman including her son who was accompanying her when she was fired told the media that she was killed in cold blood. However […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Budgam attack: Injured ASI of CRPF succumbs

Budgam attack: Injured ASI of CRPF succumbs

An assistant sub-inspector of Central Reserve Police Force was killed and his rifle snatched in an attack by militants in Keisarmulla area of Chadoora in Central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Thursday, reported a local news agency, Global News Service (GNS). An unidentified senior police officer told GNS that militants attacked 117 BN of CRPF party […]

 Crescent Kashmir

CRPF man injured, his rifle snatched in Budgam militant attack

CRPF man injured, his rifle snatched in Budgam militant attack

Srinagar: A CRPF man was injured and his rifle snatched after militants attacked a forces party in Kaiserrmulla area of Chadoora in central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Thursday. A senior police officer said that before escaping from the spot, the militants also managed to snatch the injured trooper’s rifle. The injured trooper has been shifted […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Tral gunfight over without any collateral damage, says police

Tral gunfight over without any collateral damage, says police

Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir Police have said that the gunfight which broke out between militants and forces in Tral area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district this morning wherein an unidentified militant was killed, has concluded “without any collateral damage”. Kashmir Zone Police tweeted that arms and ammunition had been recovered from the militant slain […]

 Crescent Kashmir

NIA raids multiple locations in Srinagar; all associated with cross-LoC trade

NIA raids multiple locations in Srinagar; all associated with cross-LoC trade

The National Investigation Agency on Thursday morning conducted raids in different areas of Srinagar city, reported a local news agency, Kashmir News Observer (KNO). Unidentified official sources told the agency that NIA sleuths, accompanied by paramilitary CRPF and police, raided the house of Zahoor Ahmad Bhat at Wazir bagh Srinagar,  Bashir Ahmad Lone at Hokersar […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Tral gunfight: One militant killed, operation on

Tral gunfight: One militant killed, operation on

One militant was killed after a gunfight broke out between militants and the government forces in the Machoma Tral area of South Kashmir’s Awantipora on Thursday, reported a local news agency, Global News Service (GNS). An unidentified senior police officer told GNS that in initial exchange of firing one militant has been killed and the […]

 Crescent Kashmir

JK reports 1249 new positive cases, 46530 recovered so far

JK reports 1249 new positive cases, 46530 recovered so far

Govt launches free general OPD services by Specialists/MBBS Doctors for J&K residents under National Tele-consultation Service JAMMU, SEPTEMBER 23: The Government on Wednesday informed that 1249 new positive cases of novel Corona virus (COVID-19), 646 from Jammu division and 603 from Kashmir division, have been reported today thus taking the total number of positive cases […]

 Crescent Kashmir

IIT Delhi Rolls Out A New B.Tech Programme Ahead of JEE Advanced

IIT Delhi Rolls Out A New B.Tech Programme Ahead of JEE Advanced

Students qualifying the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced this year will have an option to pursue a new 4-year undergraduate programme at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi. The premier technical institute launched a first of its kind course, B Tech in Engineering and Computational Mechanics, on Wednesday, ahead of the nationwide entrance examination […]

 Crescent Kashmir

BJP’s block development councilor from Khag shot dead

BJP’s block development councilor from Khag shot dead

Srinagar: A BJP worker and block development councilor (BDC) of Khag Budgam was shot dead near his ancestral residence at Dalwash village in the Central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Wednesday late evening. A senior police officer told GNS that the BDC chairman Bhupinder Singh left two PSOs in police station khag and left ancestral home […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Power shutdown

Power shutdown

SRINAGAR, SEPTEMBER 23: According to the Power Controller, Kashmir Province, in order to carry out branch cutting and stabilization of 33 KV Gopalpora Pahalgam line, the power supply to the areas fed from the said line and falling under Receiving Stations Hutmurrah, Salia, Sallar, Ashmuqam and Pahalgam shall remain affected on September 24 from 10 […]