Civilian among 3 Cops injured in grenade attack.
Three J&K police personnel and one civilian were injured in a grenade attack lobbed towards a police station in old city Srinagar. According to sources at around 4:30 pm grenade was hurled towards Safa Kadal police station which exploded inside the police station premises, resulting in injuries to three cops and one civilian. All the […]
Video journalist among 14 injured in Kulgam clashes.
Kulgam: according to reports Fourteen students and a video journalist were injured after clashes erupted between students and government forces in Kulgam district of south Kashmir on Thursday. Witnesses said that forces resorted to pellet firing and tear gas shelling to disperse students of Government Degree College Kulgam who were protesting against the student arrests […]
ICJ stays death sentence of Jadhav.
Agencies The Hague The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the primary judicial organ of the United Nations, has stayed the death sentence awarded to former Indian Naval officer and Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav by the Pakistan military court, citing that both – India and Pakistan – were bound by the Vienna Convention and that the […]
Farooq bats for Governor rule
National Conference President and Member of Parliament for Srinagar, Dr. Farooq Abdullah on Thursday said imposition of Governor’s rule and placing the Legislative Assembly under suspended animation was unavoidable and imperative to restore normalcy and peace in Kashmir. Speaking to reporters in Srinagar, Dr. Farooq Abdullah said the PDP-BJP Alliance was bereft of a political […]
Clashes erupt at Anantnag after shopkeeper thrashed.
Clashes erupted in Anantnag town of south Kashmir on Thursday after the government forces allegedly roughed up a shopkeeper in Dangerpora locality. Reports and witnesses said that traders staged a protest against the alleged high-handedness of the forces after the incident. Forces lobbed teargas and PAVA shells to break up the demonstration, triggering chaos in […]
Jaitley may fly back to attend Dave last rites.
Srinaagr: Union finance minister Arun Jaitley who is in Srinagar attending the GST council meet may depart back to New Delhi today afternoon, sources said on Thursday. Jaitley, who was supposed to attend the two day meet and address the press on Friday, may fly back to New Delhi to attend the last rites […]
PDP zonal president’s brother found dead in hotel.
The brother of a ruling PDP leader in Jammu and Kashmir was found dead inside a hotel room in Srinagar on Thursday, police said. The deceased has been identified as Reyaz Ahmad Dar, 36, brother of Mohammad Shafi Dar, who is the Handwara zone president of the ruling PDP, officials said. The body was recovered […]
Kulgam tense after students clash
Clashes erupt after students protest in degree college kulgam, several injured in clashes, situation tense. More details to follow.
Cop critical after hit by stone.
A constable of Jammu and Kashmir police was critically injured after some youth pelted stones at a police vehicle on Batagund-Khanqah road near Midoora in Awantipora tehsil of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district Wednesday night, police said. An official said that a constable, identified as Reyaz Ahmad, was hit by a stone on his head when […]
Anil Dave no more.
*[Environment Union Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave died on Thursday. He was 61. Dave has been a member of the Rajya Sabha since 2009. He was sworn in as a Minister of State with independent charge of environment, forest and climate change in 2016. He was born in Badnagar in Madhya Pradesh.
