Srinagar: Terrorists hurled a grenade at the Sopore police station in Baramulla district on Saturday, leaving three persons, including two policemen, injured. The grenade exploded at the main gate of the police station, 52 kms from Srinagar, at 9:55 AM, official sources said. Two policemen and a civilian were injured, they said. Security forces have launched a hunt for the terrorists, the sources said, adding no terror outfit has claimed...
11:14 AM, May 19, 2012
New Delhi: A militant was killed and an army jawan wounded in a gunbattle between security forces and ultras in Sopore town in north Kashmir's Baramulla district on Wednesday. The gunbattle ensued when army and police jointly launched a search operation in Mominpora village, following information about presence of militants in the area. One army jawan was injured in the exchange of fire, police said. (With additional inputs from PTI)...
10:05 AM, Feb 22, 2012
Srinagar: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday alleged that Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had raked up the AFSPA issue to divert attention from the death of a ruling National Conference worker in police custody last year. "Omar took up the issue of AFSPA to divert attention from custodial killing of Mohammad Yousuf Shah," she said. The NC worker died on September 30 last year in police custody...
05:56 PM, Jan 10, 2012
Srinagar: Eid festivities on Monday were marred in Kashmir Valley as clashes broke out between protesting youths and police soon after the congregational prayers concluded in Anantnag and Sopore towns, police said. Clashes broke out in Anantnag, 50 km from here, when police tried to prevent a large group of teenage boys from taking out a protest rally after the congregational Eid-ul-Adha prayers, they said. The agitators threw stones at...
02:48 PM, Nov 07, 2011
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Everyone is satisfied that the summer in the Kashmir valley this season remained peaceful. Of course barring some incidents of stone pelting and strike calls ...
03:29 PM, Aug 15, 2011
PDP MLAs were attacked by a mob in Sopore as they visited the family of Nazim Rashid who died in police custody. ...
03:50 PM, Aug 02, 2011
Srinagar: People's Democratic Party President Mehbooba Mufti was arrested on Monday while she was on the way to Sopore to visit the family of Nazim Rashid who died in police custody. A resident of Krankshiven locality in Sopore town, 28-year-old Rashid allegedly died while being questioned by the police. He was in the custody of Special Operations Group after he was picked up yesterday for questioning in connection with a...
06:09 PM, Aug 01, 2011
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday lashed out at human rights activists and local media for not reacting to the killing of a youth in Sopore town of Baramulla district. "A young man was shot dead in Sopore yesterday for no apparent fault of his. Where the hell are all the irate voices? Bloody hypocrites," Omar wrote on the micro-blogging site Twitter. Unidentified gunmen on Monday...
04:53 PM, Jul 25, 2011
Srinagar: Three suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba militants, including one from Pakistan, were killed in an encounter with security forces on Friday in Sopore town of north Kashmir's Baramulla district. "All the three militants have been killed and the operation is over," Srinagar-based Defence spokesman Lt Colonel J S Brar said, adding further details of the incident were awaited. The encounter broke out last evening when troops of 52 Rashtriya Rifles and police...
08:05 AM, Jun 03, 2011
Srinagar: Two unidentified militants were on Friday killed in an encounter with security forces in Sopore area of north Kashmir Baramulla district, officials said. A gunbattle broke out in Nowpora locality of Sopore town, 55 kms from Srinagar, after security forces came under fire from militants during a cordon and search operation, the officials said. Two militants have been killed so far, they said, adding that the search operation was ...
02:11 PM, May 27, 2011
Srinagar: Two unidentified militants were on Friday killed in an encounter with security forces in Sopore area of north Kashmir Baramulla district, officials said. A gunbattle broke out in Nowpora locality of Sopore town, 55 kms from Srinagar, after security forces came under fire from militants during a cordon and search operation, the officials said. Two militants have been killed so far, they said, adding that the search operation was...
02:11 PM, May 27, 2011
Srinagar: A wanted Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militant from Pakistan was on Monday killed in a gunbattle with security forces at Sopore in north Kashmir's Baramulla district. "An LeT militant, Chacha Talha, was killed in an encounter with security forces at Reban in Sopore town, 55 kms from here," a police spokesman said. The gunbattle broke out after security forces launched an operation following information about the presence of militants in the...
05:28 PM, Mar 28, 2011
Srinagar: People in the Kashmir valley have come out to protest the indifference shown by the government and separatist leaders over the murder of two sisters by militants four days ago even as the separatists have called for a shutdown in Sopore on Friday. Four days after two the sisters were gunned down by militants for allegedly being police informants in Sopore, locals held a sit-in at a Srinagar park...
09:08 AM, Feb 04, 2011
Srinagar: Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) has denied involvement in the murder of two teenaged sisters in Jammu and Kashmir's Sopore town, days after police blamed it for the killings. The incident was also condemned by the United Jehad Council (UJC). In a statement to a local news agency on Wednesday evening, LeT spokesman Abdullah Ghaznavi said his group condemned the killings and shared the grief with the bereaved family. "It is the...
02:42 PM, Feb 03, 2011
New Delhi/Srinagar: The killing of two girls in Sopore by suspected LeT militants evoked sharp reactions on Tuesday with Chief Minister Omar Abdullah calling the "muted condemnation" of the shocking incident by citizens and separatist leaders as "unfortunate". Speaking on the sidelines of the Chief Ministers' Conference on Internal Security in the national capital, Omar said "I find it difficult to understand. Under these circumstances, I doubt anybody would have...
05:31 PM, Feb 01, 2011
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