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Srinagar: Over 2.29 lakh devotees have performed the ongoing Amarnath Yatra since it started on June 30. However, the authorities on Friday stopped another batch of pilgrims in Jammu due to blockade of Jammu-Srinagar highway. Officials said that due to incessant rain along the over 300 km long Jammu-Srinagar highway, shooting stones and landslides have occurred […]
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Srinagar: Over 2 lakh pilgrims performed the Amarnath Yatra in 20 days as another batch of 4,355 pilgrims left Jammu for the Valley on Wednesday. Officials of Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB) that manages the affairs of the annual pilgrimage to Himalayan cave shrine situated 3,888 metres above the sea level said, “Another batch of 4,355 […]
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Srinagar: Amarnath Yatra remained suspended due to inclement weather as another batch of 5284 pilgrims left Bhagwati Nagar base camp in Jammu on Sunday for the Valley. Officials said no Yatri was allowed to move either from Baltal or from Pahalgam base camp towards the cave shrine on Saturday due to inclement weather. “Only helicopter services […]
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Srinagar: Rescue operation was resumed at the Amarnath cave shrine on Saturday where 15 people were killed and over 40 injured in a cloudburst Friday evening. Authorities have temporarily suspended the Yatra from both Baltal and Pahalgam base camps. Teams of NDRF, SDRF, BSF, CRPF, Army, police and ITBP resumed rescue operation with the first light […]
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Srinagar: At least 13 yatris were killed, five others injured and around three dozen missing after a cloudburst near the Amarnath cave shrine on Friday evening caused flash floods, officials said. J&K DGP Dilbag Singh said 13 pilgrims were killed in the cloudburst that hit the area around 5.30 p.m. At least three langars (community […]
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Srinagar: A cloudburst hit the area near the Amarnath cave shrine on Friday and five casualties have been reported so far, officials said. “Cloudburst occurred in area near the Amarnath cave shrine around 5.30 p.m. Rescue operation has been launched at the site. Rescue teams were rushed to the spot using helicopter services,” an official […]
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Srinagar: Two LeT terrorists were killed and a policeman was injured after a late night encounter broke out between terrorists and security forces at Bemina in Central Kashmir’s Srinagar district, officials said. “Two terrorists of proscribed terror outfit LeT neutralised by Srinagar Police in a swift encounter in Bemina area of Srinagar. One policeman also […]
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Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir police on Saturday arrested Kashmir-based Youtuber Faisal Wani, who had digitally enacted the act of beheading former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma. “We have registered an FIR against the Youtuber under sections 505 and 506 IPC at Safa Kadal Police Station in the Srinagar, after his gory video went viral,” police said. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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.
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"Two terrorists killed. Incriminating materials including arms and ammunition recovered. Search going on," police said.
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"One terrorist killed. Operation in progress," the police said.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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The father and Ahmad Alai have been caretakers of Gopi Tirith Temple, a small Shiva temple in Zabarwan hills in Srinagar.
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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.