2018: Deadliest year for JKP in 15 years, lost 41 men to militant’s bullets
Srinagar: 2018 has been the deadliest year for the Jammu and Kashmir police who have lost 41 cops in militant attacks. Highest in the past 15 years. In 2017, 31 policemen fell to bullets. Militants also looted 28 weapons from the police, official figures say. According to figures nine of the killed were special police […]
Diversion plan aftermath: Traffic mess returns to haunt Srinagar commuters
Srinagar: The traffic mess in Srinagar has once again returned to haunt the Srinagarities from past couple of days after the authorities issued traffic diversion plan in view of construction of much-awaited Jahangir chowk-Ram Bagh flyover. The vehicles in large number could be seen stuck in the traffic mess for hours together in Jahangir chowk, […]
Nowgam gunfight: Clashes erupt at Sangam in southern Kashmir’s Anantnag
Srinagar: Clashes broke out in Sangam area of southern Kashmir’s Islamabad district on Wednesday after the news that one of the two militants killed in Nowgam gunfight in Srinagar was a local, spread in the area. Reports said that scores of youth hit streets raising pro-freedom, anti-India slogans and hurled stones at the government forces. […]
Militants should not expect bouquets if they fire bullets: J&K Governor Satya Pal Malik
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik has said militants don’t have “much of a shelf life” with more than 40 being killed since August and should not expect bouquets if they fire bullets. Stone pelting has come down as has the number of local recruits in militancy, Malik said while describing the situation […]
DSP, PSO injured in militant attack in north Kashmir’s Pattan
Baramulla: A senior police officer and his security guard were injured on Wednesday in a militant in Pattan town of this north Kashmir district. Witnesses said that militants lobbed a grenade at a team of policemen near Babteng in Pattan here this afternoon injuring Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) operations Zaffar Mehdi and his PSO. […]
Fateh Kadal gunfight: ‘Civilian killed’ was active accomplice of slain militants, police say
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Police has said that the civilian killed in Fateh Kadal gunfight was an active accomplice of the militants slain in the gunfight. Two militants including a top Lashkar commander Mehrajudin Bangroo and Faid Mushtaq Waza were killed after government forces’ cordon and search operation turned into a gunfight. A civilian was also […]
Fatehkadal encounter: Police issues advisory to general public
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir police on Wednesday issued an advisory requesting general public not to go near the Fateh Kadal encounter site. A police spokesperson said that the advisory was issued as the encounter site is being sanitized and cleared by Bomb Disposal (BD) squad of J&K Police. “Entering in such area can prove dangerous due […]
Two Old City militants Mehraj Bangroo, Mushtaq Waza slain in Fateh Kadal gunfight: Police
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday identified the two militants killed in a gunfight with government forces in Fateh Kadal as Mehraj ud Din Bangroo and Faid Mushtaq Waza. Talking to reporters after the wreath-laying ceremony of a cop killed in the Fateh Kadal gunfight, J&K police chief said that two militants killed in the […]
Srinagar gunfight: Photojournalists thrashed, Kashmir Press club condemns
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir police cops on Wednesday thrashed photojournalists in Srinagar while they were performing their professional duties. A photojournalist said that the forces personnel of Jammu and Kashmir police thrashed photojournalists working with different media organizations while they were performing their duties near the gunfight site in Fateh Kadal. “We were clicking pictures […]
Kashmir: 3 militants, policeman killed in Srinagar gunfight
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir police on Wednesday said that three militants and a policeman were killed in a fierce encounter in Fateh Kadal area of Kashmir’s capital city Srinagar. Police sources said that acting on an inputs about the presence of militants, the forces cordoned off Syed Ali Akbar locality of Fateh Kadal early this morning. […]
KU suspends class work, schools, colleges closed in Srinagar
Srinagar: All school and collages in Srinagar have been closed while Kashmir University has suspended class work following the killing of militants at Fateh Kadal, Srinagar. According to an order by Deputy Commissioner Srinagar all All school and collages shall remain closed in the summer capital of the state. A senior official of Kashmir university […]
Detainee escapes from Police custody in Sopore
Srinagar: A detainee gave police a slip and escaped from police custody in Sopore on Friday. According to SSP Sopore Javaid Iqbal an Over Ground Worker of militants escaped from Police station Sopore on Friday. He has been identified as Mehraj khan alias Maroof a resident of new colony sopore, and was arrested few days […]
