A militant hideout has been busted in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district. Media reports said on Thursday that the hideout was busted in a joint operation by army soldiers and state police personnel.
With a series of quakes in Bhaderwah and adjoining areas triggering panic among locals, the Jammu and Kashmir government launched relief and rescue operations in the affected areas as tremors jolted the valley for the third day today.
Tremors shook Bhaderwah Valley on Thursday and adjoining areas of Doda district, triggering panic among locals rattled by a series of quakes. The quake, measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale shook the area at 6.04am, the MeT department official said.
Delhi Police has denied permission to Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik to hold a 48-hour hunger strike in the capital to press for his demands including handing over the body of Parliament attack case convict Afzal Guru to his family.
The army on Tuesday claimed to have detected and defused an 11-kg pressure cooker bomb in Srinagar, similar to the one used in Boston Marathon blasts in the USA, thus averting a major tragedy in the state, reports Ashiq Hussain.
The alleged mass rape of women by army men in 1991 in Kunan-Poshpora has again caught attention of people after state high court sought legal justifications from a civil society group for accepting their demand of reinvestigating the case. HT reports.
An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was diffused by security forces in city outskirts on Srinagar-Baramulla highway, not far away from the place of a militant suicide attack in March, which had led to loss of five CRPF men.
An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale was felt in Bhaderwah and adjoining areas of Doda district on Tuesday, officials said.
An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale was felt in Bhaderwah and adjoining areas of Doda district on Tuesday, officials said.
A US-based survey has painted a grim picture of children born and brought up in hostile and violent atmosphere in Kashmir as "they are showing stunted growth, poor performance in schools and jobs, and poor health conditions."
Suspected militants threw grenade and fired shots at a police check post near Kani Pora on the outskirts of Srinagar city on Sunday evening. Preliminary reports suggest that a police party assigned with random checking of vehicles and people tried to stop a vehicle when suspected militants hurled a grenade.
It seems the National Conference-Congress coalition government never meant to fulfill what its election manifesto promised to people some five years ago. At least the grim status of power scenario since the government took over in January 2009 in the hydro-energy-rich state depicts the same.
Alleging that India's defence policy towards China is soft, as a result of which the nighbouring country indulges in intrusions every now and then, BJP national executive member and former member of Parliament Thupstan Chhewang, said the country under the Congress-led UPA has adopted a complete silence over incidents of foreign attacks on country's sovereignty.
Two days after a deadly attack killing four policemen in Sopore, the Hizbul Mujahideen announced a reward of Rs. 5 lakh for the cadre who carried out the strike, Toufiq Rashid reports.
A sarpanch in north Kashmir's Baramulla district was injured after unidentified gunmen opened fire at him today evening, police said. He suffered a superficial injury and was discharged after first aid.