
NEW DELHI, India: From November 1 prepaid mobile phone will seize to work in Jammu and Kashmir. For serious security concerns the Centre decided on Friday to ban all existing prepaid mobile phone connections. No new connections will be issued and existing prepaid SIM cards will not be renewed thereafter decides the ministry of home [...]

BANGALORE, India: A cricketer belonging to Jammu and Kashmir was detained on Saturday after police found traces of RDX in his kit bag.
The cricketer Pervez Rassol is an under-22 from J&K and has been arrested from the Chinnaswamy stadium.
According to the police sources, Rassol was being questioned and the state police have already sent [...]

The annual Amarnath yatra is going to starts from 15th of June. More than 1 lakh 55 thousand people have till now registered themselves for the pilgrimage.
Sources say, “Over 1.55 lakh devotees have been registered for Amarnath pilgrimage at 110 registration counters across the country and online till today. The highest number of 52,700, [...]
An earthquake of 5.7 magnitude struck Northern India, New Delhi, Pakistan & Afghanistan on Saturday morning. The epicentre of this equake was in the Hindukush mountain range in Afghanistan. There were no immediate reports of any Casualty or damage.
The quake struck at a depth of 174 kms. In India, the tremors were felt at around [...]
The activists of Pro-shrine have on Thursday attacked the police station and torched vehicles in Jammu district’s Bhagwati Nagar. The activists have attacked Senior Congress leader & former deputy chief minister Mangat Ram Sharma.
Sharma was on his way to a doctor’s house in Bhagwati Nagar when a group of youth pelted his car with [...]
Shoot-at-sight orders have been issued on Wednesday in Kishtwar town, rocked by communal clashes over the Amarnath issue, even as fresh violence erupted in Srinagar with protesters pelting stones at security personnel in several areas in the city.
There are various Incidents of stone pelting by protesters reported from Safakadal, Nawakadal, Fatehkadal, Karan Nagar, Natipora, Chanapora [...]
Uma Bharti, former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, was detained on Saturday in Jammu. Uma Bharti arrived at Jammu airport on Saturday morning from New Delhi & was to address a press conference in Jammu but police took her into custody. She was later taken to Udhampur district.
Another fire-brand Hindu leader Sadhivi Ritambhara was not [...]
At least five people have been killed & more than 15 injured after a grenade blast at the busy Batamaloo bus stand in Srinagar on Thursday. Unidentified persons hurled a grenade on a Jammu-bound bus at the bus stand located in the periphery of Lal Chowk in afternoon.
The injured were immediately admitted to the nearby [...]
Jammu & Kashmir’s CM Ghulam Nabi Azad has resigned after losing the floor test. The Azad government was reduced to a minority after PDP withdrew support on June 28. Ahead of the confidence vote, Azad, along with state Congress president Saif-ud-din Soz, met Governor N N Vohra last night. The meeting lasted more than two [...]
Amarnath Yatra has been called off from Jammu in view of the continued strike in Kashmir valley over transfer of forest land to Shri Amarnath Shrine Board. The devotees were not allowed to proceed from Bhagwati Nagar base camp to the Amarnath cave shrine of Lord Shiva in the Kashmir Himalayas.
The step has been taken [...]
The Amarnath Yatra has been suspended on Friday due to heavy rains near the cave shrine & along the route of the pilgrimage in South Kashmir Himalayas.
No new batch of pilgrims was allowed to move to the shrine in Anantnag district from Jammu in view of heavy rains, a private news agency reported.
The road from [...]
Four militants, including a commander of Laskar-e-Toiba outfit, were killed in separate encounters in Kashmir valley. The commander of LeT, Mehboob Ahmed Afradi alias Jugnu, was killed in a joint operation by Army & police in Baramulla district on Friday. The militant was asked to surrender but he opened fire & in the ensuing [...]
Police has on Tuesday arrested four Laskar-e-Toiba militants in Handwara who were directed to lob grenades at police stations & public rallies in the area. Following a tip off that a person was roaming around Chinar Park in Handwara of Kupwara district planning to lob a grenade on the police station in the area.
A special [...]
Two Hizbul Mujahideen militants have been killed & two policemen, including an officer, injured in a fierce gunbattle in Jammu & Kashmir, where a seven-year-old boy was critically injured in an explosion on Sunday. The militants – Ajaz Ahmad Shah alias Janbaz & Bajeer Hussain – were killed in a gunbattle at Narpora village in [...]
Army has on Sunday raided two militants hideout & recovered arms & explosives, including five kilogramme of RDX, in Rajouri & Doda districts. The troops have busted a hideout in Joda forest belt of Thatri tehsil of Doda district on Sunday & seized two AK rifles, 50 live rounds, three Chinese pistols & two wireless [...]
At least sixteen people have been killed & six others injured when a bus fell into a 150-metre deep gorge in Rampur sub-division of Shimla district on Sunday. The Himachal Pradesh Road Transport Corporation (HRTC) bus was on the way to Rampur from Bachri village when it fell into gorge near Kaichi More, about 18 [...]
Militants have on Sunday fired a rifle grenade at the Civil Secretariat of Jammu & Kashmir, wounding two persons including a CRPF constable. Two persons, including a CRPF constable, were injured in the blast. The identity of the other injured could not be ascertained immediately. The grenade was probably fired from Suthrashahi locality & the [...]
Four day strike over fuel price hike called by the yransporters in Jammu & Kashmir was called off on Friday, following a deal with the government on raising passenger fares. The strike was called off after the State Government agreed to a 14 percent hike in passenger fares.
S Wazir, president of the state’s transport association [...]
The transporters in Jammu & Kashmir are continuing their strike for the fourth day today. Passenger buses & commercial vehicles remained off the roads in Jammu & Kashmir as talks between striking transporters demanding 50 per cent increase in fares & the government failed to end the stalemate.
The representatives of all Jammu & Kashmir Transporters [...]
Police has on Friday arrested four criminals in Jammu. On a tip off, police intercepted a Tata Safari vehicle on Jammu-Pahtankote highway at Bari Brahamana & arrested four of its occupants.
The arrested have been identified as Mohmmad Kafeeq, PHE employee Ajay Kumar, Krishna Singh & Raj Kumar. Kafeeq is a history sheeter & wanted [...]