J&K

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Three soldiers and the daughter of an armyman were injured when a group of terrorists stormed into the Army camp at Sunjawan, on the outskirts of Jammu city, on Jammu-Pathankot national highway. The condition of one of the injured is said to be serious. IGP Jammu told the media person that terrorists involved in the attack are ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The NHRC has taken cognisance of a complaint filed by three children of Army officers alleging violation of human rights of the force’s personnel in recent incidents of stone-pelting in Jammu and Kashmir. In a statement today, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said the complainants have also sought its “intervention for an appropriate enquiry into the ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Lashkar-e-Taiba militants today staged a daring attack outside a hospital in Jammu and Kashmir’s summer capital to free a Pakistani terrorist from custody, killing a policeman and critically injuring another, police said. Naveed Jutt, the LeT militant from Pakistan who was caught in Kulgam in south Kashmir in 2014, managed to escape with the assailants, police officials ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Jammu and Kashmir Police have released a girl, who was arrested a day before Republic day from south Kashmir on the suspicion of being a “suicide bomber”. An 18 years old Pune girl was handed over to members of her family, who were camping in Srinagar, after the police found nothing incriminating against her. Sadiya Anwar ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has urged the youth to stay away from the scene of encounter between security forces and militants. Her appeal came after a youth died yesterday in clashes between security forces and protesters near a site of encounter in Chaigund village of Shopian district. Expressing anguish, Mufti described the death of ...

The Cross-LoC bus service resumed through Poonch district today after being suspended last week, despite the ongoing skirmishes along the Line of Control (LoC) and the India-Pak border. Nine people, including five Jammu and Kashmir residents, returned to India, while 20 used the service to go back to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), a senior official said. Last week, on January 18, ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Senior Congress leader Raman Bhalla on Wednesday took a dig at PDP-BJP coalition, saying the government has ‘failed to meet even basic minimum expectations of the people’. He said ‘administrative inertia’ has terribly affected the life of J&K.“The government is a non-starter as it has not yet moulded itself into governing mode”, Bhalla said while addressing a ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Deputy Chief Minister, Dr Nirmal Singh today met several union ministers during his visit to Delhi and flagged several issues related to the state. While calling on the Union Minister For road, Transport and Highways, Water resources, Nitin Gadkari, the deputy chief Minister raised the issue of conservation and protection of River Tawi River in Jammu city. ...

An Army jawan on Thursday shot himself dead with his service rifle while on duty in the RS Pura border belt of Jammu district, police said. Lance Naik Parvesh Kumar Mishra (34) of the 118 Medium Regiment shot himself dead with his INSAS rifle around 0645 hours. He was on duty near Chhalla village in the RS Pura police station ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Two army men went missing after a snow avalanche hit army post in Nowgam sector of Kupwara district today, reports said. According to the sources, two army men of 20 Dogra came under the avalanche. Sources said that the army has launched a rescue operation to trace the missing men. Earlier, three soldiers of the Indian Army ...