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Jammu-Srinagar national highway shut due to landslides, leaving more 3000 vehicles stranded

January 8, 2022 Editor

Over 1,000 vehicles were cleared from Srinagar to Jammu on Friday after which landslides and shooting stones at multiple places in Ramban district again block the highway Landslides triggered by incessant rain on Saturday blocked the Jammu-Srinagar highway, leaving 3,000 vehicles stranded, according to traffic department officials. The officials said over 1,000 vehicles were cleared from Srinagar to Jammu on Friday after which landslides and shooting stones at multiple places in Ramban district again blocked the highway. “It is heavily raining in Udhampur and Ramban districts along the Jammu-Srinagar highway.…

5 Dead, 2 Injured as tempo falls into Gorge in Ramban

December 16, 2021 Editor

Five people including four women died on spot after a passenger vehicle in which they were traveling skidded off the link road and fell into a gorge near Ganoteh Kashtigarh in Ramban on Tuesday afternoon. The ill-fated Tempo Traveller was moving from Ramban to Doda. Police sources said the accident victims had come to Chuchater in Ramban to condole the death of slain ASI Ghulam Hassan Bhat, killed in Zeewan militant attack on Monday evening. The police report said a Tempo Traveler bearing registration number (JK06-2675) was on its way…

Rebels strike police bus at PanthaChowk near Srinagar, Killing 02 & Injuring 12 cops

December 13, 2021December 13, 2021 Editor

Rebels strike police bus near Srinagar, Killing two cops & Injuring 12 Personnel

Two cops were killed and 12 others injured as militants opened fire on a police bus in a high-security area near Srinagar city on Monday. This is the first major attack on the security forces in the valley since Article 370 was abrogated in 2019, revoking the temporary special status accorded to Jammu and Kashmir. The militants opened fire on the police bus carrying personnel of the 9th Battalion of J&K Police’s armed wing on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway. The incident took place in Zewan on the outskirts of Srinagar…

Traffic cop injured when rebels strike in Rajouri Kadal

December 1, 2021December 1, 2021 Editor

A traffic policeman was on Wednesday evening injured after suspected militants opened fire in the Rajouri Kadal area of Srinagar. Official sources told that the militants fired upon a man in blue identified as Muhammad Abdullah in Rajouri Kadal when he was performing his duty in the evening. Abdullah, as per them, has been rushed to SMHS hospital here where he is undergoing treatment. An official in the hospital said that the injured is being operated upon at present, adding that he has received a bullet in his left cheek.…

Orphans kids from Kashmir up for sale in in Delhi

December 1, 2021December 1, 2021 Editor

Children who lost their parents to the pandemic might be falling prey to illegal adoptions, and possibly trafficking, as an India Today investigation found several unscrupulous elements offering Covid orphans for sale. According to a Lancet study, around 1.16 lakh children in India may have lost a parent to the disease from March 1, 2020, to April 30, 2021. The breakdown showed an estimated 25,500 children losing their mothers, some 90,751 their fathers, and 12 both parents to Covid-19. An assessment by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights…

If you want to ‘Keep’ Kashmir, restore Article 370 & Address Kashmir Issue: Mehbooba to GoI

November 24, 2021 Editor

“Some of our own people get annoyed when I demand dialogue with Pakistan for peace in J&K and resolution of the issue. They dub me a traitor and anti-national.” PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday asked the Centre to restore Article 370 and resolve the Kashmir issue if it wants to “keep Kashmir”, saying people want return of “our identity and honour” and that too with interest. Addressing a public rally at Neel village of Banihal, she also said the people of Jammu and Kashmir have decided “our fate with…

Kashmir observed shutdown while families bury bodies of civilians killed during hyderpora shootout

November 19, 2021 Editor

Authorities exhume bodies of two civilians and return them to their families as separatists organise a shutdown in disputed region. Authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir have exhumed the bodies of two civilians and returned them to their families who claim Indian troops used them as human shields and executed them “in cold blood” during a gunfight earlier this week. Police earlier said the two men – Altaf Ahmad Bhat, 48, and Mudasir Gul, 40 – died in the crossfire when government forces on Monday attacked suspected rebels at a shopping complex…

Two persons injured in grenade attack in Eidgah area

November 11, 2021 Editor

Two persons were injured in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday after terrorists launched a grenade attack in Srinagar’s old city Eidgah. According to news agency ANI, one of the two persons was a policeman. This is the third attack by terrorists in the Valley in only four days, with the previous two ones resulting in the death of two civilians. Moreover, this is the second attack since Sunday’s attack on constable Tawseef Ahmad Wani (29) in which a policeman was targeted. Notably, Wani was shot outside his residence at around…

Kashmir Continues To Bleed: Unknown gunmen strike again shot a civilian in downtown Srinagar

November 9, 2021 Editor

The deceased has been identified as Ibrahim Khan hailing from Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipore district, who worked as a salesman for Kashmiri pandit businessman Roshan Lal Mawa. Terrorists shot dead a salesman at Srinagar in Jammu & Kashmir on Monday. This was the second such attack on a civilian in the city this week after constable Tawseef Ahmad Wani, 29, was killed in Srinagar’s Batamaloo region on Sunday. The deceased has been identified as Ibrahim Khan of Bandipore district. He was working as a salesman for Kashmiri pandit businessman Roshan…

11 Killed, 14 Injured as mini-bus falls into gorge in Doda

October 28, 2021October 29, 2021 Editor

The mini-bus, which was on its way from Thathri to Doda, fell into the gorge near Soi-Gwari, officials said Eleven people traveling in a mini-bus were killed and 14 injured when the vehicle skidded off the road and rolled down into a deep gorge on the Batote-Kishtwar highway in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district on October 28, officials said. The mini-bus, which was on its way from Thathri to Doda, fell into the gorge near Soi-Gwari, they added. The driver, who was also among the dead, reportedly lost control of…