Jammu & Kashmir

  PALLI(SAMBA): On his first official visit to Jammu and Kashmir after the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government scrapped Article 370, which gave special status to J&K, Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised the local youths that they will not suffer like their parents and grandparents. “I assure, rather promise that youths of J&K won’t see […]

JAMMU: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said that the biggest achievement of the Central government in Jammu and Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370 was “decisive control” over terrorism in the Valley for the first time. Addressing the 83rd CRPF Day Parade program in Jammu, Shah said that the government of PM […]

SRINAGAR: Three wanted terrorists of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) offshoot The Resistance Front (TRF), who were involved in the murder of a sarpanch, were eliminated in an encounter with security forces here, the police said on Wednesday. The terrorists were killed during a search operation by a joint team of Jammu and Kashmir Police and the Rashtriya Rifles […]

KUPWARA (J&K): The victims of the 1991 alleged mass rape in Kunan-Poshpora villages in north Kashmir’s Kupwara were “used by a nexus through a fake narrative”, a top Army officer posted in the Valley said on Monday. Speaking on the sidelines of an event here, General Officer Commanding (GoC) of Srinagar-based 15 Corps, Lt General […]

Srinagar: The newly constituted State Investigation Agency (SIA), mandated to probe terror related cases in Jammu and Kashmir, has begun its crackdown on proscribed Jamaat-e-Islami and quizzed its chief along with some associates for their association with terrorist groups. On Thursday, SIA quizzed last serving Ameer (Chief) Abdul Hameed Ganie of Jamaat for eight hours […]

Srinagar: Anees-ul-Islam, the grandson of pro-Pakistan leader, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, has disowned his grandfather to save his Government job, which he got in lieu melting down of 2016 agitation. Anees was given a Government job when scores of Kashmiri mothers were receiving bodies of their sons covered in shrouds every day on calls of […]

It defies belief, but several among the separatist ranks are pleased with the way the delimitation commission wants to realign seats in Jammu and Kashmir. Consider this: the only new constituency they’ve created in the Kashmir Valley comprises people who, by and large, have been pro-Pakistan. The very name of the constituency sends a tingle […]

NEW DELHI: A day after the terror attack on a bus carrying Jammu Kashmir Police jawans in the down town area of Srinagar, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government on Tuesday claimed that the incidents of terror have come down since the abrogation of Article 370 in the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir. The government on Tuesday informed […]