Drug-peddler arrested in Udhampur
Jammu, Oct 12: A drug-peddler was arrested after intoxicants were allegedly found in his possession in Udhampur district Thursday, police said. A police team intercepted the man at Roundomail area and recovered 600 tablets of Tramadol, an intoxicant, from his possession, they said. A case has been registered. Images News Netwokthekashmirimages.com
Lt Gen Paramjit Singh takes over as XVI Corps GOC
Jammu, Oct 12: Lt Gen Paramjit Singh Friday took over as the general officer commanding of the Army’s Nagrota-based XVI Corps. Lt Gen Singh, who has commanded an elite parachute regiment and has vast experience of high-altitude warfare, took over the command of the strategic corps from Lt Gen Saranjeet Singh at a function here, […]
PhD scholar Manan Wani among two Hizb militants killed in Handwara
Amid violent clashes, thousands participate in their funeral
Handwara, Oct 11: Two Hizb-ul-Mujahideen militants including top commander Manan Bashir Wani, a PhD scholar-turned-militant and his associate Ashiq Hussain Zargar was killed in a fierce gunfight at Shatgund Handwara in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Thursday. Residents of the Shatgund and Qalambad – nestled among the walnut and pine trees – woke up to […]
JRL calls shutdown
Srinagar, Oct 11: Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) has called for shutdown Friday over the killing of scholar-turned-militant Manan Wani in a gunfight with the government forces in north Kashmir’s Kupwara. “Alas! heard the tragic news of #MananWani’s Martyrdom and of his associates! Deeply pained that we lost a budding intellectual and writer like him, fighting […]
Cancellation of Indo-Pak FM meeting ‘disappointing’: Pakistan
Islamabad, Oct 11: The cancellation of the Indo-Pak foreign ministers’ meeting in New York by India on “flimsy pretexts” was “disappointing”, Pakistan said Thursday, asserting that it wants peaceful and good-neighbourly relations with New Delhi on the basis of sovereign equality, mutual respect and mutual benefit. India called off a meeting between the foreign ministers […]
Governor’s comments on Srinagar mayor misrepresented: Raj Bhavan
Srinagar, Oct 11: A Raj Bhavan spokesman on Thursday said that the comments made by Governor Satya Pal Malik regarding the Srinagar mayor were “misrepresented” by a New Delhi-based private news channel. The spokesman said that over the past three days, ever-since Governor Satya Pal Malik gave a live interview to a TV Channel in […]
Mehbooba urges political parties to realise gravity of Kashmir situation
Srinagar, Oct 11: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti said Thursday that PhD scholar-turned militant “preferring death in an encounter over life” should make political parties realise the gravity of the situation and facilitate dialogue with all stakeholders to end the bloodshed in Jammu and Kashmir. Manan Bashir Wani, who was pursuing PhD in Allied Geology at […]
Slain militants’ families protest in Srinagar, demand bodies
Srinagar, Oct 11: The families and relatives of the five militants killed on September 21, 2018 in Sumlar forests of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district held a protest demonstration at Press Enclave here today demanding the return of the bodies of their slain kin. Shouting pro-justice and pro-Islam slogans, the protesters demanded mortal remains of the […]
JK cop given ‘Shaurya Chakra’ posthumously
New Delhi, Oct 11: A Jammu and Kashmir Police constable has been awarded the ‘Shaurya Chakra’ posthumously for showing exemplary courage while fighting militants in the restive state, officials said. “Manzoor Ahmed Naik, who was a resident of Uri in Baramulla district, laid down his life at Haffu Nigeenpora village of Tral in south Kashmir’s […]
Former PDP MLC Vikramaditya Singh joins Congress
New Delhi, Oct 11: Former PDP MLC Vikramaditya Singh, the son of ex-Union minister Dr. Karan Singh, joined the Congress on Thursday in presence of senior party leaders. After joining the party, Vikramaditya Singh said he was disillusioned with the PDP in Jammu and Kashmir as it “failed” to fulfill its promises and “betrayed” the […]
