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Srinagar: The first Hajj 2022 flight carrying pilgrims to Saudi Arabia left the Srinagar International Airport on Sunday. The annual Muslim pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia re-starts this year after remaining suspended for two years due to the Covid pandemic. The Hajj flight is carrying 145 J&K pilgrims to Madina. The flights will carry a total […]

Srinagar:  Migrant Kashmiri Pandit employees were on Wednesday confined to their pooled accommodations by the authorities as they have threatened to leave the Valley in protest against recent killings by the militants. Authorities confined migrant Kashmiri Pandit employees to pooled accommodations in Tullamulla area of Ganderbal district, Sheikhpora in Budgam district, Veesu in Anantnag and […]

Srinagar: Two unidentified terrorists have been killed in an ongoing encounter between terrorists and security forces at Bijbehara in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district, officials said on Saturday. “Two terrorists killed. Incriminating materials including arms and ammunition recovered. Search going on,” police said. The firefight between terrorists and security forces took place after a joint team […]

Jammu: At least six workers are feared trapped in an under-construction tunnel along the Jammu-Srinagar national highway that collapsed on Friday in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district, police sources said. Several workers are feared to be trapped, inside an under construction tunnel that has collapsed in Ramban District, near Khoni Nalla on Srinagar Jammu National […]

Srinagar: Thirty-nine people, including 17 tourists, were injured in an alleged attack by stray dogs in Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar city. Locals said 39 persons were injured when a pack of stray dogs attacked them in Dalgate area of Srinagar city on Friday evening. “The injured included 17 tourists and 22 locals. All the injured […]

Police said Rayees Ahmad Bhat had been a journalist previously running an online news portal while Hilal Ahmad Rah, a categorised terrorist, belonged to Bijbehara in South Kashmir.

"Two terrorists killed. Incriminating materials including arms and ammunition recovered. Search going on," police said.

"One terrorist killed. Operation in progress," the police said.

Srinagar: One pilot of an army helicopter that crashed in the Gurez border area in J&K’s Bandipora district on Friday was killed while the other sustained injuries, officials said. The helicopter had gone to airlift a sick BSF trooper, but it crashed in the Gujran Nallah in Gurez tehsil before it could land. Officials said […]

Srinagar: Two terrorist have been killed in an encounter between militants and security forces at Naina Batpora area in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district, officials said on Thursday. “Another terrorist killed (Total 2), both affiliated to proscribed terror outfit LeT (Lashkar-e-Taiba). Search going on. Incriminating materials including arms and ammunition recovered,” the police said. Earlier, the […]

The father and Ahmad Alai have been caretakers of Gopi Tirith Temple, a small Shiva temple in Zabarwan hills in Srinagar.

Acting on specific inputs about the presence of militants in the Zakura locality of the city, security forces launched a cordon and search operation there during the night, a police official said.

The JeM terrorist was involved in Zewan Terror Attack.

Srinagar: After nearly one month the minimum temperature on Thursday rose above the freezing point in Srinagar and many places in Kashmir. Sonam Lotus, director of the MeT department said, “As expected, there is a significant rise in minimum temperature by 4-5 degree Celsius in J&K and Ladakh. “Light Snow also reported at isolated places […]

The terror attack on a police bus on the outskirts of Srinagar, claiming three lives, comes as a grim reminder of the audacity with which the Pakistan-sponsored terror outfits have been carrying out their macabre agenda in Jammu & Kashmir. The timing of the strike, coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the Parliament attack, is […]

The 14.15 km Zoji la bidirectional tunnel will be Asia’s longest. Located on the Srinagar-Leh road, under the Zoji La pass, it will shorten the distance between Baltal (Sonamarg) and Minamarg in the Kargil region of Ladakh from 40 km to 13 km. That would slash travel time from over three hours to 15 minutes. […]

Srinagar: Hyderabad-based Megha Engineering & Infrastructure Limited (MEIL), which is executing Zojila Tunnel, a project of national importance that will strengthen both defence and economy, is keen to expedite the project execution. The company, which has completed over 10 per cent of the works, is aiming to complete the project by 2025, ahead of the […]

Srinagar: The mobile Internet services will be restored in Kashmir on Monday evening, top police officials told IANS. The blockade on Internet and voice calling services was imposed in Kashmir as a precautionary measure after the death of separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Wednesday night. The Voice calling and broadband Internet was later […]

As the security forces zeroed in on the spot where terrorists were hiding they came under a heavy volume of fire.

Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Danmar area, falling along Safakadal-Soura road, in Srinagar.