Category: Jammu and Kashmir

• SRINAGAR
• ANANTNAG
• Leh
• Gurez
• Laharwalpora
• Jammu
• Pampore
• Ladakh
• Rajouri
• Kargil
• Udhampur
• Kathua

A woman pilgrim was arrested after a pistol was recovered from her possession at the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district, said officials on Tuesday.

A police statement said that Srinagar cops have arrested a gang of robbers, who were posing as police commandos to rob trucks on the highway during night.

After attending the meeting, J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said that although the implementation of the new criminal laws was not the responsibility of the elected government in the union territory, his government would make people aware of the new laws. 

J&K Lt Governor Manoj Sinha said on Monday that the Army is fully capable of dealing with any situation on the border and is giving befitting response to the enemy.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the train to Kashmir Valley on February 17 to fulfil the over 70-year-old dream of a rail service to the landlocked valley. 

All pesticide and insecticide shops have been sealed by authorities in Jammu and Kashmir’s (J&K) Rajouri district as part of preventive measures taken after 17 ‘mysterious deaths’ took place in Budhal village, officials said on Thursday.

Nagrota-headquartered White Knight Corps said that it detected a terrorist movement on the LoC on Thursday night and alert troops engaged the terrorists trying to infiltrate. Two terrorists were killed in the gunfight. The Army later conducted a search operation in the area and found weapons and war-like stores.

Alert troops detected terrorist movement along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Khari Karmara area of J&K’s Poonch district on Thursday after which a firing exchange broke out between the soldiers and the terrorists and is still on, the Army said.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday conducted raids at multiple locations in Kashmir in connection with the killings of non-locals by the terrorists. 

The inter-ministerial team of experts constituted under orders of Union Home Minister Amit Shah will arrive here on Sunday to visit Budhal village of Rajouri district to probe ‘mysterious deaths’. 

"The inauguration of the Jammu railway division is a historic milestone in the integration of J&K into the national railway network as also in the development of infrastructure and connectivity of J&K," he said.

On the first day of the 40-day period of extreme winter cold called the 'Chillai Kalan' on Saturday, Srinagar city froze at minus 8.5 degrees Celsius, recording the lowest temperature since 2000. 

An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was detected on Monday by the security forces on the Srinagar-Baramulla Highway in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) on Monday, thereby averting a major tragedy. 

Firing exchanges started on Monday evening between the security forces and terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K)'s Srinagar district, officials said.

J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday highlighted the implications of the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) on river-rich Jammu & Kashmir, which restricts its ability to harness its huge hydel power potential primarily due to storage constraints.

Twenty civilian vehicles stuck due to heavy snowfall in Razdan Pass of Jammu & Kashmir’s Bandipora district were rescued on Tuesday in a night-long operation by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO).

Jammu & Kashmir Police said on Monday that it has rescued two trekkers from Zabarwan Hills here, thereby avoiding a potentially dangerous situation.

A massive search operation continued on Monday in the forests of Jammu & Kashmir’s Kishtwar district to trace the terrorists responsible for the killing of a para commando during a gunfight in the Keshwan area on Sunday.

A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) trooper allegedly committed suicide on Monday by shooting himself in Jammu and Kashmir’s (J&K) Srinagar city.

As a gunfight is already underway between the security forces and terrorists in Kashmir’s Srinagar district, another exchange of fire started on Sunday in Kishtwar district of Jammu division.

An encounter started between security forces and terrorists in the Zabarwan forest area of central Kashmir's Srinagar district, police said on Sunday.

A para commando of the Army was killed and three others injured on Sunday as security forces engaged in a gunfight in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar with a band of terrorists, identified as the same one involved in the recent abduction and murder of two Village Defence Committee (VDC) members in the district.

One terrorist was killed in an encounter between the security forces and the terrorists in Sopore town of Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district on Saturday, while two to three others were still trapped there, officials said.

The cold-blooded murder of two members of a Village Defence Committee (VDC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s (J&K’s) Kishtwar district on Thursday was widely condemned as a massive operation started to trace the killers on Friday.

An encounter resumed on Friday in Jammu and Kashmir’s (J&K’s) Sopore area where security forces had started a CASO (Cordon and Search Operation) on Thursday evening.