Kandahar hijack suspect arrested
The Jammu and Kashmir police on Thursday said that it has arrested a top militant from eastern district of Kishtwar who is reported to have been involved in the 1999 hijacking of an Indian Airlines je
Hizb module busted in J&K
The Jammu and Kashmir police on Tuesday claimed it has solved the mystery of “Kashmir Islamic Movement” and said that the group involved in a series of killings, bombings and attacks on security force
Jawan killed in bid to foil LoC infiltration
An Army jawan was killed while foiling an infiltration bid from across the Line of Control (LoC) in Gurez sector of Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipore district overnight, officials here said on Thursday.
‘Media, netas on love-hate terms’
Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah said on Thursday that a “love-hate relationship” existed between politicians and media and termed it as “supplementary and complimentary to each other.”
Yatra ends, 6.2l pilgrims this yr
The annual pilgrimage to Amarnath caveshrine in Kashmir Himalayas ended on Thursday after the traditional puja was held in the 12,729-foot-high sanctum sanctorum, coinciding with Shravan Purnima.
Lorry falls off J&K road, 16 pilgrims killed
A lorry carrying members of a langar group helping Amarnath pilgrims skidded off a mountain road and fell into a deep gorge in Kashmir’s Samba district overnight, killing 16 and injuring 18 others, the police said Friday.
Pilgrims, volunteers were going home
Reports from Samba said that the pilgrims and volunteers were returning home in Uttar Pradesh and New Delhi from langar duty at Baltal, one of the base-camps of the annual yatra.
Locals say J&K youth shot dead by troops in cold blood
General-Officer-Commanding of the Army’s Srinagar-based 15 (Chinar) Corps Lt. Gen.
Yatra measures satisfy J&K gov
The Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB), which met here on Tuesday, is quite satisfied at the slew of measures initiated by it over a period of time to improve amenities available to devotees visiting
Most deaths due to pulmonary oedema
Most of the over 90 deaths among the Amarnath pilgrims during the annual yatra this year have occurred due to pulmonary oedema, an abnormal accumulation of fluid beneath the skin or in one or more cav