Srinagar: The eight year old Kathua girl who was raped and murdered was being held captive in a temple, the DNA report has suggested. According to news agency GNS, the DNA test of hair strands recovered by the crime branch of Jammu and Kashmir Police from Devsthan temple in Rassana village has matched with the […]
Archives for April 4, 2018
Shutdown observed on 4th successive day today
“Restrictions in to prevent Shopian march” Srinagar, April 04: Curfew and restrictions were imposed by the authorities across the Kashmir to prevent a solidarity march towards Shopian, today. Call for the march was given by the Joint Resistance Leadership to express solidarity with the people and families of 18 martyrs, killed by the troops on […]
Kangan on boil over youth’s killing
Srinagar: Gowhar Ahmed Rather, 22, who was shot at during a protest in Kangan on Monday succumbed to his injuries at the SKIMS, Soura, on Tuesday. During the protests that erupted in Kangan town against his killing today, three youths were injured, one of them critically. Gowhar battled for his life for about 20 hours […]
Forces besieged civilians in orchard and opened fire in Shopian
Srinagar: Farida Banoo, 50, shivers as she recalls the horrific evening of Sunday when her 17-year-old son came home wounded and blinded by pellets. “It was agonising to see my son’s condition. He was pale, his whole body was bruised, and he was covering his left eye with a cloth,” Farida told Kashmir Reader in […]
From undergraduates to MPhil: 5 militants killed at Kachdora
Shopian: All five militants killed in the Kachdora encounter were identified as locals and buried on Monday at graveyards in their native villages, amid huge gatherings of mourners. Due to the continuous throng of people, multiple rounds of funeral prayers were held for the militants. The militants were identified as Ishfaq Ahmad Thoker, resident of […]
Death of 13 local militants on Sunday: a first in the last 20 years
Srinagar, April 04: On Sunday, when an army general, to mark the killing of thirteen militants, told the media that it was a special day, it was perhaps for the first time in the last nearly twenty years of armed insurgency that so many Kashmiri men had been killed in a single day of violence […]
