Unidentified terrorists have shot dead an 18-year-old youth in Jammu and Kashmir. Police say Suhail Ahmad Sofi was chased down and shot in Dobgah village of Sopore at around 10 pm on Tuesday night. ...
02:37 PM, Mar 20, 2013
The Jammu and Kashmir government on Tuesday again demanded the return of parliament attack convict Afzal Guru's body to his family. Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Mir Saifullah said the mortal remains of Guru must be handed over to his family. "That's our stand." ...
02:55 AM, Mar 20, 2013
Police today claimed to have cracked the suicide attack case on a CRPF camp here with the arrest of four persons, including an LeT terrorist from Pakistan, and recovered huge cache of arms, but said investigation did not prove that the attack was linked to execution of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. ...
04:24 PM, Mar 19, 2013
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday alleged that the Legislative members do not utilise the "right procedure" to make their view points. "It has been observed that members do not utilise the right procedure to make their view points in the Assembly or Council, but they choose speaking outside the Houses which weakens the institutions," Omar, who was here to attend the 'Best Legislators' award function at...
04:47 AM, Mar 19, 2013
The Jammu and Kashmir Police claimed they have cracked the case of the deadly attack in Srinagar that left five paramilitary personnel dead on Wednesday. The breakthrough came after the third arrest of a government employee, Pradeep Singh. ...
09:42 PM, Mar 16, 2013
The Jammu and Kashmir Police has made a third arrest in connection with the fidayeen attack on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in Bemina, Srinagar in which five personnel and two suspected terrorists died. ...
12:59 PM, Mar 16, 2013
The Pakistani terrorist arrested in a major breakthrough in the suicide strike that killed five CRPF men was a Lashkar-e-Toiba recruit and it was he who allegedly dropped the two 'fidayeens' in the outskirts of the city on the day of the attack, investigations show. In a swift operation a day after the attack, the Special Operations Group of the Jammu and Kashmir police arrested 22-year-old Zubair alias Abu Tallah...
07:43 AM, Mar 16, 2013
The "time is not ripe" for withdrawing the Armed Forces Special Powers Act from the Kashmir valley, Indian Army chief general Bikram Singh said here on Friday. He also noted that the proposed mountain strike corps was in an advanced stage of finalisation. Referring to the AFSPA as an enabler, Gen Singh said it should stay. "The time is not right at the moment to tamper with the framework," he...
08:52 PM, Mar 15, 2013
In an embarrassing lapse, the portrait of the brother of CRPF soldier N Satish, who was killed in the terror attack in Srinagar, was taken in his funeral procession here today with relatives and district authorities blaming each other for it. As a large number of people from Satish's village and Ministers Suresh Kumar and A Ramdas paid homage to the CRPF soldier, killed in Wednesday's suicide attack in Srinagar,...
12:02 PM, Mar 15, 2013
Security forces in Jammu and Kashmir claim to have arrested two persons suspected for having been linked to Wednesday's suicide attack on a CRPF camp. The first person arrested is a suspected Pakistani terrorist from Multan and was picked from the Rampura Chattabal area of Srinagar late on Thursday night. ...
11:42 AM, Mar 15, 2013
The BJP has targeted the government over the Pakistan assembly resolution against Afzal Guru's hanging. The BJP has demanded that India should suspend dialogue with Pakistan. The party also staged a walkout in the J&K assembly on Friday. ...
10:53 AM, Mar 15, 2013
The final draft of the anti-rape Bill, which proposes stringent punishment for rape, acid attack, stalking and voyeurism besides reducing the age of consent for sex to 16 years from 18, was cleared by the Union Cabinet on Thursday. ...
11:58 PM, Mar 14, 2013
A Pakistani terrorist, suspected to be involved in the suicide attack on a CRPF camp in Srinagar, was on Thursday arrested from Chattabal area in the city. On a tip off about presence of two terrorists in Chattabal, the special operation group cordoned off the area and nabbed Abu Talib, a resident of Multan, sources said. ...
10:59 PM, Mar 14, 2013
Anger erupted among CRPF jawans on Thursday over absence of state political leaders at the wreath laying ceremony at Police Control Room in Srinagar in memory of their five colleagues killed in a 'fidayeen'(suicide) attack. As officers and jawans of the CRPF and state police bid a tearful adieu to the five slain men, rage overtook grief with some personnel from the paramilitary force targeting Chief Minister Omar Abdullah for...
10:52 PM, Mar 14, 2013
Angered by the absence of the government officials at a homage ceremony organised for the five CRPF personnel, who were killed in a fidayeen attack on Wedneday, one of the soldiders said they felt like orphans who don't have a father to care for them. ...
09:17 PM, Mar 14, 2013
A sting operation conducted by Cobrapost across various branches of private financial institutions, including HDFC, ICICI and Axis banks showed how bank employees were helping customers convert black money into white. ...
08:36 PM, Mar 14, 2013
The Kashmir Valley was returning towards normalcy for the last three years as terror related incidents were on a decline. Tourism and allied activities were on the upswing but following Wednesday's audacious terror attack on a CRPF camp in which five security personnel and two terrorists were killed has brought back fears of troubled times ahead. ...
03:57 PM, Mar 14, 2013
Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Thursday committed yet another faux pas in Lok Sabha by reading out twice a part of his statement on the terrorist attack in Srinagar. Members were agitated and even Shinde's ministerial colleagues were looking in disbelief as the Home Minister started reading the statement for the second time. ...
03:30 PM, Mar 14, 2013
Slamming the Jammu and Kashmir government for "disarming" the police and CRPF in Kashmir valley and making them "targets" to terror attacks, Opposition parties on Thursady staged a walkout over the killing of five CRPF personnel by terrorists in Srinagar. ...
03:16 PM, Mar 14, 2013
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah rushed to the airport to pay homage to the five CRPF soldiers killed in Wednesday's terror attacks after protests by the Opposition over the absence of government officials from the funeral ceremony of the martyrs. CRPF soldiers were upset after the Jammu and Kashmir ministers failed to attend a homage paid to the five soldiers who died in the terror attack in Bemina....
02:17 PM, Mar 14, 2013
