Srinagar, Jammu, Leh airports closed for civilian air traffic
Srinagar, Feb 27: Srinagar, Jammu and Leh airports were Wednesday closed for civilian air traffic shortly after an IAF jet crashed in Budgam district and amid escalation of cross-Line of Control shelling between armies of India and Pakistan. “The civilian air traffic has been suspended temporarily in view of the emergency,” an official of the Airport […]
No fresh incidents of violence against Kashmiris since Feb 22, Centre to SC
New Delhi, Feb 27: The Supreme Court Wednesday took note of the Centre’s submissions that no fresh incident of violence against Kashmiris has been reported since February 22, the day when the apex court had taken cognisance of a PIL on the issue. The apex court on February 22 directed chief secretaries and DGPs of […]
Pak violates Indian air space in J-K’s Poonch, Nowshera sectors, drop bombs, pushed back
Jammu: Pakistani fighter jets on Wednesday violated Indian air space in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch and Nowshera sectors but were pushed back by Indian aircraft, senior officials said. The Pakistani jets dropped bombs while returning, officials said. There were no immediate reports of any casualties or damage. “The jets entered Indian air space over Nowshera […]
Two pilots were killed after a Fighter Jet of Indian Air Force crashes in Budgam
Srinagar, Feb 27 : Two pilots were killed after a Fighter Jet of Indian Air Force (IAF) has crashed in Garend Kalan area of central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Wednesday morning. A police officer told news agency that the IAF jet was crashed at Garend Kalan, some 7 kilometers away from Budgam town at around 10:40 […]
CASO Launched in North Kashmir’s Sopore village
Sopore: Government forces Wednesday launched a cordon-and-search operation (CASO) in Naseerabad area of Sopore in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Reports said that a joint team of Army’s Special Operation Group of Police (SOG) and CRPF sealed the Naseerabad area of Sopore town and conducted door to door search. Official sources said that following the inputs […]
Indo-Pak armies exchange heavy shelling Uri sector
People being shifted to safer places: SSP Baramulla
Baramulla: Amid escalation of tension between India and Pakistan after India’s Air strike, Indo-Pak armies of exchanged heavy gunfire along LoC in frontier sector Uri in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district since Wednesday. Sources said that the Indo PaK armies exchanged mortar shelling Kamalkot area of Uri and the interment firing and shelling continues. However, no […]
Shopian gunfight: 2 JeM militants killed
Srinagar: A top commander among two JeM militants were killed after an encounter broke out between militants and government forces in Memander area of South Kashmir’s Shopian district on Wednesday. IGP Kashmir S P Pani confirmed that two Jaish militants have been killed in Memander and said it was clean operation without any collateral damage. […]
WAR: India strikes; takes Pakistan by surprise!
Pakistan rejects India's claim but denies its claim saying, will respond ‘when and where it wants?’
New Delhi/Islamabad, Feb 26: In a swift air strike that lasted less than two minutes, India claimed it pounded “Jaish-e-Mohammed’s biggest training camp” in Pakistan early Tuesday, “killing up to 350 terrorists and trainers who were moved there for their protection after the Pulwama attack.” The pre-dawn operation, described as “non-military” and “preemptive”, struck a […]
Exercise ‘maximum restraint’: Int’l community
Srinagar, Feb 26: In the face of escalated tensions between India and Pakistan, various countries urged the nuclear-armed South Asian neighbours to exercise “maximum restraint”. “We remain in contact with both countries and what we believe is essential is that all exercise maximum restraint and avoid further escalation of tensions,” Europen Union spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic […]
Balakot residents thought earthquake jolted them
Islamabad, Feb 26: Residents in the quake-prone Balakot town in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province Tuesday said they were woken by “loud explosions” and thought a fresh tremor must have hit the region when Indian Air Force jets pounded a large militant “training camp”. Balakot town in Pakistan’s north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province was destroyed during the 2005 […]
