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Srinagar: A massive anti-militancy operation is underway in the Gunda area of Rajouri district, where militants carried out an attack, injuring a civilian said to be a relative of Shaurya Chakra Awardee Parshotam Kumar Sharma, and a soldier on Monday. Officials told GNS that the security establishment believes there are four heavily armed militants trapped. […]
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Srinagar: Senior advocate and former general secretary of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association, Mohammad Ashraf Bhat, was arrested from his residence and booked under the Public Safety Act (PSA), officials reported on Thursday. Bhat was detained at his home in the Rawalpora area of the city late Wednesday night and has since
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Srinagar: Four members of a family tragically lost their lives in a road accident in Rajwar village of Handwara in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district late last evening, officials reported on Tuesday. According to an official, the accident occurred when the family was traveling in a vehicle to fetch water from a nearby source, and the
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Srinagar: An army trooper who was injured in intial exchange of fire in Kulgam succumbed to his injuries in a hospital on Saturday. A top police officer told GNS that during intial exchange of fire one army soldier who was critically injured succumbed to his injuries in a hospital. Earlier, a exchange of fire took
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Srinagar: Former MLA Abid Hussain Ansari and the All Jammu and Kashmir Shia Association, led by Molvi Imran Reza Ansari, have announced their decision to boycott all government meetings related to the Muharram. This move comes in response to what they describe as the administration’s last-minute, insufficient efforts to cater to the community’s needs. In
Srinagar: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha flagged off the first batch of 4,603 Amarnath Yatra pilgrims from the base camp in Jammu this morning. Before the departure, LG Manoj Sinha offered special prayers at the temple. The 52-day pilgrimage to the cave shrine, located at an altitude of about 13,000 feet in the South Kashmir Himalayas,
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Srinagar: A fire damaged the shrine of Hazrat Baba Naseeb Din Ghazi (RA) in Sangam, Eidgah, Srinagar. The blaze, which occurred overnight between Tuesday and Wednesday, caused partial damage to the shrine and affected two nearby Chinar trees. This incident marks the second fire at the shrine recently, with locals having extinguished a previous fire
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Srinagar: A bus traveling from Hamam Mundaji to Sopore in Pazwalpora Dangiwach met with an accident today. Initial reports indicate three people were killed and several others injured. The bus, driven by Mohammad Saleem Malla (Pakhwara Dangiwacha) and carrying 20 passengers, reportedly suffered a brake failure, causing a loss of control and the crash. Media
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Srinagar: The Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Jammu and Kashmir Police and the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Kathua had a narrow escape when a militant opened fire on their vehicles during an ongoing anti-militant operation in Hiranagar, according to an official. The official informed GNS that the attack occurred when a hidden militant fired
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Srinagar: Five Army soldiers and a Special Police Officer (SPO) were injured in a gunfight with militants in the Chattargala area of Doda district early Wednesday morning while a CRPF trooper was killed in an ongoing anti-militancy operation in the Hiranagar area of Kathua district. Chattargala, Doda District At approximately 1:45 AM on Wednesday, a
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