Bengaluru : The body of late Captain M.V. Pranjal, 28, who was killed in an encounter with terrorists in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, November 22, arrived at the HAL airport here on Friday late evening (November 24). Governor Thawarchand Gehlot, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Energy Minister K.J. George, Member of Parliament Tejaswi […]
Jammu : The Army detected and defused three mortar shells fired by Pakistani troops in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, officials said on Tuesday. The shells had landed in hamlets along the LoC in Balakote and Mendhar on Thursday last but did not explode. The bomb disposal squads of the Army detected them and defused […]
Srinagar : Two army personnel were killed in a gunfight with heavily-armed Pakistani infiltrators along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Wednesday, officials said. The infiltrators were intercepted in the Khari Thrayat forest when they were trying to sneak into India from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), they said. “Two army soldiers […]
New Delhi : General Manoj Mukund Naravane on Tuesday took charge as the Chief of Army Staff, succeeding General Bipin Rawat. General Naravane served as vice chief of the Army before taking charge of the 1.3 million strong Army. In his 37 years of service, General Naravane served in numerous command and staff appointments in […]
New Delhi : Terming the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) passed by Parliament unconstitutional, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Thursday that the entire northeast is “burning” in protest against the legislation, and what is happening in the region is a repeat of what happened in Jammu and Kashmir. The Leader of Opposition in […]
Kashmir : Indian billionaire entrepreneur Dr.BR Shetty has announced plans to open a film city in Jammu and Kashmir to boost his home country’s film industry. “[Jammu and Kashmir] is a very scenic place and I’m going to have a film city there so that people can come and shoot films there, and for tourism,” […]
New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi outlined his government’s vision on J&K following the dilution of Article 370 and the bifurcation of the state. The PM promised free and fair elections will be held soon, greater employment opportunities, development as a tourism hub and that normalcy will return soon. The government had in a […]
New Delhi : Two Kashmiri students, one pursuing MTech and another doing diploma in electrical engineering, suspected to be members of the Islamic State in Jammu and Kashmir (ISJK) were arrested near the Red Fort with arms, police claimed on Friday. MTech student Pervez Ahmed Lone (24) and Jamshed Jahoor (19), a final-year-diploma student, were […]
New Delhi: India celebrates the 19th anniversary of Kargil Vijay Diwas today. As on this date, in 1999, the Kargil misadventure ended with India getting victorious. Till date, this day is remembered in the memory of those who sacrificed their lives for the country. India took command of the high outposts on July 26, 1999 […]
Kasargod: Kasargod is observing a voluntary bundh or hartal on April 16, Monday to protest against the barbaric rape and murder of an eight year old girl at Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir. Buses as well as other vehicular movement has come to a standstill as part of the hartal being observed under the aegis […]
