Happenings

December 14, 2018 No Responses

Seven dead, several injured in Reasi road accident

Seven persons including two minors died and three others were injured in a road accident in Reasi district of Jammu late last night. An official said an overloaded car, bearing registration number JK02H 1515 skidded off the road and fell...

December 8, 2018 No Responses

11 Dead, 19 Injured in Poonch bus accident

At least 11 passengers died and nineteen others were injured, five of them critically, in a road accident in Mandi tehsil of Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday. An official said that a passenger bus (registration number JK02W0445)...

December 5, 2018 No Responses

‘Wall of Kindness’ comes up in Srinagar

The ‘wall of kindness’, a charitable initiative for donating clothes to needy and poor, has reached Kashmir. The charity wall, which was introduced in Iran and from there reached Pakistan and several other countries have surprisingly surfaced on The Bund.....

November 29, 2018 No Responses

J&K govt announces vacations for winter zone

The Jammu and Kashmir government on Thursday announced winter vacations in Kashmir division and winter zone of Jammu division. According to an order issued today, winter vacations for classes up to eighth standard shall be observed from December 6, 2018...

November 27, 2018 No Responses

Kashmir Continues To Bleed -Two rebels, Army soldier killed, two CRPF personnel wounded in Kulgam gunfight, Intense clashes on, scores injured

Two militants and an army soldier were killed and two Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel wounded in a gunfight in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Tuesday. A police official said that two militants were killed in the gunfight. “The...

November 23, 2018 No Responses

Gunfight erupts in Bijbehara, Six Hizb rebels killed in gunfight

Six Hizb ul Mujahideen militants were killed in a gunfight in Shalgud village of Dashnipora in Bijbehara area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Friday, police and army said. An army spokesman in Srinagar said that six militants were killed...

November 21, 2018 No Responses

PDP likely to head grand alliance with Congress, NC to form govt in J&K

A grand alliance is shaping up in Jammu and Kashmir where arch rivals Peoples Democratic Party and National Conference are set to team up with the Congress to stake claim to form the government. Former finance minister and senior PDP...

November 20, 2018 No Responses

Four rebels, army soldier killed in encounter in Shopian

One army soldier and four militants were killed in an encounter between militants and security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian early on Tuesday. The operation was launched by army and police at Nadimarg village based on inputs about the...

November 14, 2018 No Responses

Observe Shutdown across Kashmir on Nov 17 against Panchayat polls: JRL

Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) has called for a complete shutdown across Kashmir on November 17 against the panchayat polls. The JRL comprising Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik urged people to observe shutdown against “ye...

November 14, 2018 No Responses

J&K and Punjab police on alert after four men hijack taxi in Pathankot

A high alert was sounded in Punjab’s Pathankot and J&K’s Kathua after four men commandeered a taxi at gunpoint near Madhopur. The four men hired the taxi, a silver coloured Innova with registration number JK02AW-0922, from Jammu railway station on...