Police on Thursday arrested an employee of state-owned BSNL for allegedly providing mobile SIM cards to militants in Sopore town of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district.
A National Conference worker was shot dead by suspected militants in Srinagar’s Batamaloo area on Saturday. On December 11, militants had made an attempt on the life of rural development minister Ali Mohammad Sagar. HT reports.
Three CRPF jawans were killed and another injured in a fratricide incident, the first of this year in the force, at a camp in south Kashmir's Kulgam district, police said on Sunday.
The scenic Kashmir Valley may have been devoid of snowfall this Christmas, but the cold spell continued on Sunday as the minimum temperature fell to the season's lowest in Srinagar at minus 4.8 degrees Celsius.
The Jammu and Kashmir police have filed a case against the state’s school board for publishing a book that has a picture depicting a policeman as a “tyrant”.
An indicator that militancy might be down but not out, the police on Thursday claimed to have busted indigenous Hizbul Mujahideen and the Lashkar-e-Taiba modules in south Kashmir by arresting eight militants. In north Kashmir, one Hizb militant was arrested in a separate operation.
Continuing its operations against militants, the police along with the army today recovered arms and ammunition in north Kashmir’s Handwara area.
Breaking its silence over the unaccounted Rs. 3.4 crore meant for the state’s madrassas, the Peoples Democratic Party on Saturday demanded a white paper over the release of Central funds.
Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah today said anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare should not dictate terms to the Parliament admitting that the Centre had allowed itself to be dictated.
Kashmir valley continued to shiver due to biting cold with the minimum temperature across the valley dropping several degrees below the freezing point even as the weather department forecast light to moderate snow at many places in Srinagar.
At least 100 guerrillas were waiting to infiltrate into the Kashmir Valley from across the Line of Control (LoC), the army on Monday said quoting information gleaned by intelligence agencies.
From protests against security forces, Kashmir is now witnessing a protest against the protesters.
Sub-zero temperature during nights engulf Kashmir valley as the meteorological department forecast chilly nights ahead. The chill has people of the valley braving odds to go on with their routine life.
Lashing out at successive governments for "discriminating" with the Gaddis and Sippis in Jammu and Kashmir, BJP on Wednesday demanded special status for the community in the state.
Hardline Hurriyat Conference chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Tuesday said he would approach the court against a "ban" on a calendar and diary, published by his organisation Tehreek-e-Hurriyat.