Category: Jammu and Kashmir

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"A third team raided The Khyber Himalayan Resort & Spa at Gulmarg. All the entry and exit points have been sealed and searches are being carried out," the sources said, adding that further details will be out after the raids are over.

"The contents of the threats depict the intention of terrorists and anti-national elements. They have put the lives of people, especially mediapersons, in danger by publicly calling them corrupt and giving a direct threat," the police said.

In July 2019, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for the first time in 30 years seized a property belonging to any separatist leader in Kashmir by attaching the house of Asiya Andrabi, self styled chief of women radical organisation Dukhtaran-e-Millat.

"Terrorists fired upon and injured two non-local labourers in Rakh-Momin area of Anantnag. Both the injured are being shifted to hospital for treatment. Area being cordoned off," Jammu and Kashmir Police said.

Syed Altaf Bukhari, president of J&K Apni Party, said on Saturday that statehood to Jammu and Kashmir should be restored as promised by Union Home Minister Amit Shah on the floor of the Parliament.

After receiving multiple inputs regarding an individual, namely Bilal Ahmed Dar hailing from the Cheerkote area of Kupwara district, a joint operation was launched by the Army and Kupwara police to nab the individual from the general area Nutnussa and Lolab localities of Kupwara.
 

Three LeT terrorists, including a commander, were killed in an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district on Tuesday, as they were on their way to attack a security force camp, police said.

Three young informants, Umar Javeed, Aaqib and Sukarma Thapar finally forced the tech giant, Google to cough up a whooping fine of Rs 1,338 crore for abusing its dominant position in multiple markets with its Android mobile operating system.

Is Pakistan repeating its Punjab drug push strategy in Kashmir? It certainly appears so. Drug traffickers are out to destroy Kashmir's generation-next by selling poison to it at the behest of Pakistan, which wants to enslave the youngsters for fighting its proxy war in Jammu and Kashmir.

Allowing a revision petition filed by government against the 2011 order by the trial court in Shopian, Justice Vinod Chatterji Koul directed examination of the witnesses on commission.

National Conference President and former J&K Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah on Monday shot down BJP claims of normalcy in J&K and said that killings won't stop unless "justice" is given.

Visibly angered over the recent killings, the group of activists told reporters that the Hurriyat leaders had deceived the people for the past 30 years and they were responsible for killing innocents in Kashmir.

Internally, Pakistan believed hell would break loose in Kashmir. Delhi had put all separatist and Pro-India regional players like those of the National Conference and the Peoples Democratic Party under arrest.

"The activities of these employees had come to the adverse notice of law enforcement and intelligence agencies, as they have been found involved in activities prejudicial to the interests of the security of the state," the statement read.

National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday carried out raids at multiple locations in Jammu and Kashmir in connection with the terror funding case pertaining to the Jamaat-e-Islami, J&K.

Jammu and Kashmir police on Saturday recovered 3 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 3 sticky bombs in Kathua district on the disclosures of an arrested terrorist.

He also advised the security agencies to ensure that J&K becomes completely terrorism free so that people live in peace and get benefitted from the various developmental and welfare programmes of the government.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Wednesday that Mufti & Co and Abdullah & Sons had made Kashmir a 'terrorist spot' while Modiji has made it a 'tourist hotspot'.

Three Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists were killed in a gunfight with the security forces in the Drach area of South Kashmir's Shopian district, officials said on Wednesday.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah addressed a massive public rally here on Tuesday and said that the Justice Sharma Commission has recommended reservations for Gujjars, Bakarwals and the Pahari communities of J&K and all of them will get their lawful right of reservations.

"In the initial investigation into the incident of death of DG Prisons, HK Lohia, it has come to fore that one domestic helper Yasir Ahmed resident of Ramban is the main accused," police said.

Police sources said the throat-slit body of the senior IPS officer was allegedly found at his residence in Jammu city. It is reported that the domestic help of the deceased IPS officer is absconding.

Police said that a local journalist operating in south Kashmir's Anantnag district, Nadeem Nadu was arrested for interrogation after he was accused by a university teacher of rape, extortion, intimidation and trafficking.

Officials said the Union Home Minister has a busy schedule ahead of him during his visit to the Union Territory. "The Union Home Minister will arrive in Jammu around 5 p.m. tomorrow (Monday). He will meet delegations of Gujjars/Bakarwals and Yuva Rajput Sabha in the evening."

As per reports, the bus was parked near a petrol pump and was empty at the time of explosion. The intensity of blast was such that the roof of the bus got damaged, while window panes of several nearby vehicles were also damaged.