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Siblings among 4 persons die while cleaning trench in Anantnag village*

Siblings among 4 persons die while cleaning trench in Anantnag village*

Two brothers were among four persons who died due to asphyxiation while cleaning a trench at Tulkhan Bijbhera in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district. Official sources told GNS that two person are from Luktipora and as many others from Tulkhun. They have been identified as Nazir Ahmad Dar (45) his brother Abdul Rashid Dar (40) sonS […]

 Crescent Kashmir

824 New Covid-19 Cases In J&K, Less Than Thousand Infection After Over 3 Weeks

824 New Covid-19 Cases In J&K, Less Than Thousand Infection After Over 3 Weeks

Jammu and Kashmir reported 824 new novel coronavirus cases including 82 travelers in last 24 hours, taking the total count to 73014, officials said on Monday. It is for the first time in more than three weeks that less than a thousand cases have been registered in J&K. Sources told GNS that 540 cases were […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Forces personnel injured by Pak firing in north Kashmir: Army

Forces personnel injured by Pak firing in north Kashmir: Army

Srinagar: A forces personnel was injured in mortar firing by Pakistan army along the Line of Control in Machil sector in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district, a defence ministry spokesman here said on Monday. “Pakistan initiated an unprovoked ceasefire violation along LoC in (Machil) Sector, Kupwara today morning by firing Mortars and other weapons,” a the […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Militant killed in Samboora had joined militancy before Burhan Wani: DGP

Militant killed in Samboora had joined militancy before Burhan Wani: DGP

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir police chief Dilbagh Singh said that the gunfight that took place at Samboora, Pampore in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district yesterday night was a successful operation and government forces achieved a “big success” by killing one of the longest surviving militant commanders of Lashkar-e-Toiba outfit and his close aide. “The operation at […]

 Crescent Kashmir

We got some clues about Babri Qadri’s case, will crack it soon: DGP

We got some clues about Babri Qadri’s case, will crack it soon: DGP

 Director General of Police on Monday said that police have managed to get some clues about Babar Qadri’s case. DGP said that he is hopeful that JK Police will be able to crack the case. “We have already constituted a SIT in this regard and probe is on.” Regarding Amshipora encounter he said that after matching […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Pakistani wives of former militants detained for trying to meet LG Manoj Sinha

Pakistani wives of former militants detained for trying to meet LG Manoj Sinha

Police detained some Pakistani women, who had married to former Kashmiri militants, at Srinagar’s Gupkar after they tried to meet the Lieutenant Governor (LG), Manoj Sinha, on Monday morning, reported a local news agency, Kashmir News Trust (KNT). About eleven Pakistani women had gone to the LG House to meet the LG Mr. Sinha, however, […]

 Crescent Kashmir

13-yr-old girl’s body fished out after 103 days in south Kashmir

13-yr-old girl’s body fished out after 103 days in south Kashmir

The body of a 13-year-old girl who drowned on 16 June this year, was fished out on Monday morning from river Jhelum at Jaffer Pora Marhama area of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district. A local news agency, Kashmir News Observer (KNO) reported that the decomposed body of Nighat Jan, daughter of Ghulam Hassan Dar from Jafarpora […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Three questioned for their role as Army informants in Shopian killings: Report

Three questioned for their role as Army informants in Shopian killings: Report

Three persons, who are said to have been working as informers for the Army, on Saturday deposed before the Army’s Court of Inquiry, set up to probe the 18 July “gunfight” at Amshipora, Shopian, in which three labourers from Rajouri were killed and declared militants. Top sources in the administration told The Sunday Express that […]

 Crescent Kashmir

DIVINE JUSTICE

DIVINE JUSTICE

Sajad Gani Lone was right and was speaking the heart of victim families when he said that justice should not be ornamental but should be divine. He was reacting to the police statement that the DNA samples of parents of Rajouri have matched those three persons killed by army in a staged encounter at Shopian. […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Explosion at Anantnag gunfight site: Injured youth succumbs at SMHS

Explosion at Anantnag gunfight site: Injured youth succumbs at SMHS

Anantnag: A youth who was among four persons injured due to an explosion at a gunfight site at Sirhama in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Friday has succumbed to his injuries. The persons were injured after an unexploded device went off at the gunfight site when they were clearing the debris of the house razed […]