Woman law student from Jamia booked for Instagram post on Handwara gunfight
Srinagar: A student of the Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi was booked on Thursday after a Bajrang Dal office-bearer filed a complaint over a post on her Instagram account on the 3 May Handwara gunfight. According to Indian Express, the FIR was registered in Bulandshahr’s Khurja police station. The FIR states that the student, 22-year-old […]
Amid COVID threat, militancy returns to Kashmir
Notwithstanding the threat posed by the spread of COVID-19, the onset of summer in Kashmir Valley has seen a return to violence, with 28 militants being killed in April alone and four in the first three days of May. The data on local recruitment also shows that the suppression of militancy after revocation of Jammu and […]
No justification for detention of Sagar, others: NC
Srinagar, 05 May: Jammu and Kashmir National Conference on Tuesday sought immediate release of Senior Leader and Party General Secretary Hajji Ali Muhammad Sagar and others detained under PSA saying there is no justification for their continued detention. While expressing concern over the plight of detainees arbitrarily arrested during the course of 2019, party’s Spokesperson […]
‘Our Problems Don’t Make Any Difference To Party’: Ex-BJP Ladakh President
Everything in the Union Territory of Ladakh is being run by bureaucrats, who are not from here and care little about us, says Chering Dorjay, who resigned as the BJP President in the area and left the party. Almost nine months after the Centre abrogated Article 370 and moved a separate motion to bifurcate the […]
Gunfight starts in South Kashmir
Pulwama: Gunfight started between the government forces and militants in Shaarshali of Khrew-Pampore belt of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Wednesday early morning. An official said that on specific inputs about the presence of militants cordon and search operation was launched in the area by joint team of forces including 50 RR, Central Reserve Police […]
Mehbooba Mufti’s detention under PSA extended by three months
The Jammu and Kashmir administration Tuesday extended the detention period of former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti by three months under the Public Safety Act (PSA). Apart from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief, the administration also extended the detention of senior National Conference leader Ali Mohammad Sagar and PDP leader Sartaj Madani. Mufti has been […]
Shopkeeper apprehended with rifle in Tral
Tral, May 5, KNT: A shopkeeper has reportedly been apprehended along with a rifle in Sutura tral that fall under the jurisdiction of police station tral in South Kashmir. Sources told KNT that after receiving inputs, Government Forces raided a house and recovered an AK-47 and arrested the shopkeeper. Sources identified the shopkeeper as […]
JKAP flays Govt. for ambiguity among J&K’s stranded residents
SRINAGAR, May 5: Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) president Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari on Monday flayed the J&K UT administration for prevailing chaos and confusion among its residents who are stranded in various parts of the country and are not being evacuated even after completing their online registration formalities in time. In a statement issued here, Bukhari said: “The […]
Next wave of 400 Jaish terrorists for Kashmir could be from its Afghan camps
Jaish-e-Mohammed, the UN designated terror group that targets Jammu and Kashmir, has readied 400 terrorists at its training camps in Afghanistan who have been deployed with Taliban units before they are sent to Kashmir valley, people familiar with the development told Hindustan Times. As first reported by Hindustan Times, Afghan forces had discovered one of Jaish’s […]
Teen Shot In J&K Encounter Not Buried In Village, Cops Say Coronavirus
Srinagar: A 14-year-old specially-abled boy, who was killed in Jammu and Kashmir’s Handwara yesterday, was not allowed burial in his family graveyard. The boy was buried in Baramulla district, more than 30 km from his village. The officials have cited coronavirus as the reason. The student of Class 7 was killed yesterday when security forces […]