NEW DELHI: Indian Army on Tuesday gunned down second terrorist following counter-terror operation in Jammu‘s Akhnoor sector. The gunfight began on Monday after terrorists opened fire on an Indian Army convoy near the Assan temple in the Sunderbani Sector. Following a swift response, security forces eliminated one terrorist on Monday and recovered a weapon. Two…
JAMMU: A terrorist was killed early Monday in retaliatory action after he and two associates fired at a military ambulance that was part of an Army convoy moving through Battal Keri-Jogwan near the LoC in Sunderbani sector of Akhnoor, 28km from Jammu city.An official said no soldiers were wounded in the counteroffensive. “The area was…
SRINAGAR/JAMMU: Amid grief and disbelief, two families — one from Kashmir’s Budgam district and the other from Jammu — find themselves bound by an unimaginable tragedy. What was meant to be a festive time of Karva Chauth for architectural designer Shashi Bhushan Abrol’s wife and children, and a hopeful return to routine life for Dr…
J&K CM Omar Abdullah (PTI photo) Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Monday resigned from the Budgam assembly seat and retained the Ganderbal seat, which is the National Conference’s (NC) bastion.Abdullah won both the Ganderbal and Budgam seats in the recently concluded assembly polls, which took place after a decade.Omar Abdullah, who is…
SRINAGAR: Congress opted out of joining Union territory J&K’s first elected govt “till statehood is restored”, while a recent National Conference recruit from BJP — Surinder Kumar Choudhary of Jammu‘s Nowshera — made the cut Wednesday as CM Omar Abdullah‘s deputy in the six-member INDIA bloc ministry that took the oath of office in the…
JAMMU: AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal offered support and advice Sunday to National Conference’s Omar Abdullah on “how to run a half-state“, suggesting that J&K’s first elected CM since it became a Union territory would soon realise how different his second stint was going to be compared to when he helmed the erstwhile state 15 years…
SRINAGAR: The resounding mandate for the INDIA bloc in J&K failed to hide the tame failure of Congress to live up to its pre-poll expectation of taking on BJP in its Hindu stronghold of Jammu. Congress won a lone seat in Jammu region, and that too via a minority candidate in the reserved Rajouri constituency….
NEW DELHI: In the Jammu and Kashmir assembly election, the C voter exit poll has predicted that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would emerge as the single largest party in the Jammu region by winning 27-31 seats.According to C voter predictions, the National Conference (NC) and Congress alliance will get around 11-15 seats, while Mehbooba…
Demonstrators, carrying black flags, gathered in Magam market and Budgam town, chanting anti-Israel and anti-US slogans. NEW DELHI: Protests erupted in Jammu and Kashmir‘s Budgam district on Wednesday following the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon, officials reported. Demonstrations took place in the Magam market area and Budgam town, as people observed the…
JAMMU: Jammu: Security forces gunned down a terrorist in Kog-Mandli village of Billawar tehsil in Jammu division’s Kathua district Sunday during an ongoing gunfight that began the previous evening.Another shootout was reported Sunday evening from Manial Gali in Rajouri district during a search operation based on specific intelligence about the presence of terrorists in the…
