Gunfight breaks out in Kashmir NEW DELHI: An encounter erupted between terrorists and security forces in the forest area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Tuesday. Acting on intelligence about terrorist activity in the Valley’s northern area, security forces started cordon-and-search operation.A gunfight erupted when the terrorists opened fire on the advancing forces, who…
Srinagar: J&K Police Tuesday claimed to have busted a heroin smuggling network and arrested three key individuals of the nexus in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district besides seizing around 2.7kg heroin worth Rs 20 crore in the international market.Acting on intelligence inputs, a police team detained one Nazim Din (28) from Zamboor Pattan Uri during a…
JAMMU: J&K Police on Saturday claimed to have busted a module of the proscribed Jammu and Kashmir Ghaznavi Force (JKGF) — a shadow outfit of Jaish-e-Mohammad — in Poonch district and solved several past grenade attacks with the arrest of two JKGF terrorists.At a press conference, ADGP (Jammu Zone) Anand Jain termed the twin arrest…
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…
Security personnel stand guard along the Bani-Billawar road after an encounter JAMMU/SRINAGAR: J&K police head constable Bashir Ahmed was killed and an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) and a deputy SP, who was leading the operation, were wounded Saturday evening during a shootout between security forces and terrorists in Kog-Mandli village in Billawar tehsil of Jammu division’s…
NEW DELHI: Colonel Manpreet Singh and deputy superintendent of J&K Police Humayun Muzzammil Bhat, who laid down their lives while battling terrorists in a fierce encounter in Anantnag district of J&K last September, and two others have been awarded Kirti Chakra, the nation’s second-highest gallantry medal during peacetime, on Independence Day.The other Kirti Chakra awardees…
NEW DELHI: Jammu and Kashmir police have announced a reward of Rs 20 lakh for information about the Reasi terror attack. Police have also released a sketch of one of the terrorists involved.Ten people were killed and 33 injured as terrorists open fired on a bus carrying pilgrims from Uttar Pradesh in Jammu and Kashmir’s…
SRINAGAR: J&K Police have filed an FIR against a student of Srinagar’s Government Medical College (GMC) over an alleged blasphemous postamid protests. The absconding student has been suspended.Classes at the medical college have been suspended for three days till Saturday because of the protests by junior doctors, students as well as faculty members over the…
NEW DELHI: The Army and Jammu and Kashmir Police conducted a joint search operation in Uri, Baramulla on Thursday, resulting in the apprehension of one suspected individual.The operation was initiated following specific inputs from intelligence agencies, as disclosed by the Indian Army‘s Chinar Corps.During the operation, security forces successfully recovered a pistol along with other…
JAMMU: Three ready-to-use improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were seized from a suspected terrorist hideout in the border district of J&K’s Poonch early Wednesday, ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls in Anantnag-Rajouri segment on May 7, officials said.“Around 6am, a search operation based on a specific input was launched by Special Operation Group (SOG) of…
