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Five killed,15 injured in Jammu bus accident
Jun. 9 | Jammu: At least five people were killed and 15 others injured in a bus accident Saturday evening near Katra, the base camp of Mata Vaishno Devi shrine, in Jammu and Kashmir. According to police, the bus carrying about 40 passengers and going from Udhampur...
LeT militant killed in Kishtwar shootout
May. 21 | Jammu: Security forces have killed a Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militant in a shootout in the jungles of Kishtwar district in Jammu and Kashmir early Monday. Akhtar Hussain was involved in the killing of a soldier a couple of months ago, said an army source...
Two Hizbul Mujahideen militants escape from police custody
Mar. 29 | Jammu: Two Hizbul Mujahideen militants, under arrest for allegedly making an assassination bid on Congress MP Lal Singh in 2004, have escaped from police custody, officials said. Police said the Dullah Gujjar, commander of a Hizbul Mujahadeen outfit,...
Bijbehara town car blast kills one,injures 24
Mar. 22 | Srinagar: One person was killed and two dozen were injured in a powerful car bomb explosion in a south Kashmir district Thursday. No group has claimed responsibility for the blast that shattered weeks of calm in the state. A police officer told IANS the...
One killed, two missing in Bandipora avalanche
Mar. 20 | Srinagar: One person has been killed and two are missing in an avalanche in Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipora district, officials said Tuesday. They were among five people trapped in the avalanche in the north Kashmir area late Monday. Two of the five...
Two women killed in Poonch firing
Mar. 7 | Jammu: Two women were killed and two people were injured in firing by an army soldier in Poonch town of Jammu and Kashmir Wednesday morning, police said. According to police sources, a soldier of the Territorial Army, Tariq Pathan, went on roof top of...
Afzal Guru should ‘pay price’:Farooq Abdullah
Feb. 25 | Jammu: Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru should “pay the price” for attacking India, union New and Renewable Energy Minister and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah said Saturday. “Anyone who attacks India should...
Two avalanches kill 16 soldiers in north Kashmir
Feb. 23 | Srinagar: Sixteen Indian Army soldiers were killed in two avalanches overnight in two districts of north Kashmir, an army officer said Thursday. “Thirteen bodies have been recovered so far from the avalanche debris in Dawar (Gurez) area of Bandipora...
Top Lashkar commander killed in Sopore town
Feb. 21 | Srinagar: A top commander of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) outfit was killed in a gunfight with security forces in north Kashmir’s Sopore town Tuesday evening, police said. “The seniormost commander of LeT in the Valley, Abu Ukasha Badar, was...
