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Tragic mishap at Handwara kills one injures many

Tragic mishap at Handwara kills one injures many

On Monday morning in a tragic road accident one person identified by police as ghulam mohideen mir of Rajpora Handwara was killed while three other passengers were injured. Police said that all the injured persons were hospitalised for treatment. Reports said that passenger vehicle was coming to Handwara when driver of the vehicle lost control […]

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Yet another crackdown on Mir Mohalla Hajin

Yet another crackdown on Mir Mohalla Hajin

Army and security forces in the wee hours of Monday have started yet another crackdown on Mir Mohalla of Hajin in Bandipora district. Reports said that people were told to come out in open and house to house searches in the area were being conducted. Locals of the area said that in the past few […]

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Mehbooba Mufti seeks defence minister’s intervention to get back land in Kashmir

Mehbooba Mufti seeks defence minister’s intervention to get back land in Kashmir

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today sought the intervention of Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for the return of the state land which is no longer required for operational purposes by the Army. Mufti had a one-on-one meeting with Sitharaman at Pahalgam in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district where the defence minister had come to […]

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Search operation going on at Hillar Kokernag

Search operation going on at Hillar Kokernag

Army SOG wing of Jammu and Kashmir police along with CRPF were conducting house to house searches in Hillar village near Kokernag on Sunday night, reports said. According to locals search operation was going on in the village and all exit points of the village have been sealed.police sources have told media that the operation […]

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35th quashing order from court and revolving doors of prison for Masrat Alam

35th quashing order from court and revolving doors of prison for Masrat Alam

After the court quashed 35th detention order of Hurriyat leader Masrat Alam, he was released from Kot Balwal jail on Saturday evening and rearrested by waiting Jammu and Kashmir police outside the jail. His party colleagues told media that he was brought to kashmir and was lodged in Handwara police station and authorities were busy […]

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Farooq, Rishi Kapoor come under barrage of criticism

Farooq, Rishi Kapoor come under barrage of criticism

Dr Farooq Abdullah suggested that there should be greater autonomy given to both sides of Kashmir and both countries should shun Thier egoes and enemity. This got lots of people on twitter and actor Rishi Kapoor came in support of Abdullah on twitter and said that jk belongs to us and pok to Pakistan and […]

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Why is Farooq Abdullah singing autonomy song so loudly?

Why is Farooq Abdullah singing autonomy song so loudly?

Farooq Abdullah has been very active in advocating autonomy as the only solution to the Kashmir problem. He is perhaps privy to the developments behind the scene between India and Pakistan which have resulted in appointment of Dineshwar Sharma as new interlocutor. The reaction to his autonomy pitch by Yasin Malik is the reaction of […]

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Yasin Malik calls Farooq Abdullah political joker

Yasin Malik calls Farooq Abdullah political joker

JKLF chief Yasin Malik in a statement while reacting to the Farooq Abdullah’s greater autonomy remarks said that he was political joker. Yasin said that people of J&K have not spilled blood on the streets for the song of autonomy. He said that father of Farooq Abdullah in 1953 was arrested by a police man […]

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Police arrest lot of youth in Pulwama on stone pelting charges

Police arrest lot of youth in Pulwama on stone pelting charges

District police of Pulwaam have prepared alist of stone pelting youth and arrested most of them during night raids, locals said. The parents of the arrested youth told VOV that arrest of youth in Pulwama has become an industry for police and labeled allegations of corruption against them to get their wards released. “They arrested […]

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Dozens of villages in twin districts of Shopian, Pulwama reeling under crackdown

Dozens of villages in twin districts of Shopian, Pulwama reeling under crackdown

In the wee hours of of Saturday 44 RR along with paramilitary CRPF and SOG of J&K police laid seige of about two dozen villages in the highlands of Keller forests after the inputs about the presence of militants. A police officer told VOV that they were conducting house to house searches and so far […]