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Jammu and Kashmir Police said the militants started shooting at the team when they closed in. (PTI Photo/File)

Two militants, including JeM commander, killed in gunfight in south Kashmir’s Pulwama: PoliceSubscriber Only

December 1, 2021 10:46 IST

🔴 The gunfight erupted early in the morning when a joint team of J-K Police, army and paramilitary forces cordoned off Qasbayar village of Rajpora in Pulwama following inputs about the presence of militants there.

BJP general secretary said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah have on the floor of the Parliament said that the statehood of J-K will be restored and the BJP also supports the demand. (Express Photo by Shuaib Masoodi/File)

J-K’s statehood will be restored after selective killings end: BJP

November 29, 2021 18:22 IST

The BJP is concerned over the selective killings in Kashmir as its activists were targeted, BJP general secretary, organisation, Ashok Koul told reporters in north Kashmir's Bandipora.

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NIA arrests J&K rights activist Khurram ParvezSubscriber Only

November 23, 2021 15:30 IST

Parvez is the programme coordinator of the JKCCS, a federation of human rights groups and individuals working in J&K founded in 2000 by human rights lawyer and activist Parvez Imroz.

Mehbooba Mufti demanded a judicial probe (File)

L-G Sinha must apologise to Hyderpora victims, says Mehbooba MuftiSubscriber Only

November 22, 2021 03:49 IST

Mufti led a protest where protestors demanded a judicial probe into the incident and the return of the body of the third person killed in the incident.

Paramilitary soldiers patrol in a market in Srinagar, Kashmir. (AP)

Hyderpora encounter: Ramban DDC chief warns of protest if 3rd victim’s body not returned to kin

November 20, 2021 16:19 IST

Ramban District Development Council chairperson Shamshad Shan welcomed Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor Manoj Sinha's order for a magisterial probe into the encounter which took place in Srinagar on Monday evening.

Paramilitary soldiers patrol in a market in Srinagar, Kashmir.

Militant killed in encounter in J-K’s Kulgam

November 20, 2021 14:56 IST

Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in the Ashmuji area of the south Kashmir district following information about the presence of militants there, a police official said.

Srinagar came to a halt on Friday as a shutdown was observed after the Hyderpora encounter. (Shuaib Masoodi)

Civilian killed in Srinagar encounter: Papa, why have they taken you away? A 13-yr-old grieves as her father is buriedSubscriber Only

November 20, 2021 07:54 IST

Kashmir observed a shutdown on Friday in response to a call by the Hurriyat Conference against the killings.

Omar Abdullah, Jammu & Kashmir National Conference Vice President and former chief minister, with party leaders during a sit-in protest demanding a probe into the killings of civilians Altaf Ahmad Bhat & Mudasir Gul and the return of their bodies, in Srinagar, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021. (PTI)

Ruthless, inhuman to deny bodies to families: Parties

November 19, 2021 04:10 IST

NC leader Omar Abdullah, who staged a sit-in seeking the return of the bodies, said this was the “naya Kashmir of 2021”. “This is how the J&K Police fulfills @PMOIndia promise to remove ‘dil ki doori and Dilli se doori’,” he tweeted.

"Again under house arrest & PDPs @SAAQQIIB & @Suhail_Bukhari too have been arrested," Mufti wrote on Twitter and posted pictures of the locked gate of her residence. (Express Photo by Shuaib Masoodi)

Placed under house arrest, says PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti

November 18, 2021 14:00 IST

The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said her party chief spokesperson Suhail Bukhari and spokesperson Najmu Saqib were arrested.

Security personnel stand guard during an encounter with militants in Jammu and Kashmir (PTI/File)

Hyderpora encounter: Families of slain civilians protest, demand return of bodies

November 17, 2021 17:09 IST

The families of two civilians — Altaf Bhat and Mudassir Gul — killed in the Hyderpora encounter, held a protest at Press Enclave in Srinagar, demanding that their bodies be returned to them as they were not militants or OGWs.

Dr Mudasir Gul’s family members. (Express photo by Shuaib Masoodi)

Civilians killed in Valley encounter, kin contest police claims, seek bodiesSubscriber Only

November 17, 2021 07:19 IST

Addressing a press conference Tuesday, Inspector General (Kashmir) Vijay Kumar said Altaf Ahmad Dar, owner of a building on Hyderpora bypass, had provided three rooms on the top floor to Dr Mudasir Gul who ran a real estate business.

Security personnel stand guard during an encounter with militants at Hyderpora, in Srinagar. (PTI/File)

Hyderpora encounter: Cops say businessman killed in ‘crossfire’ to be counted as harbourer of terrorists

November 16, 2021 19:57 IST

Altaf Bhat was among the four persons, including a Pakistani terrorist and his local associate, killed in the gunfight in Hyderpora locality of Srinagar late Monday evening.

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Two militants, one civilian die in Srinagar shootout

November 16, 2021 06:07 IST

Police is yet to release details on the identities of the deceased militants. The operation began in the evening and was still on when the last reports came in.

The encounter in Srinagar broke out on Thursday evening in the Hamdaniya Colony area of Bemina. (Representational)

Three militants killed in J&K, police say total count 133 this year

November 13, 2021 01:15 IST

With this, the police said, 133 militants have been killed so far this year, including “many top commanders”.

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Kashmir salesman’s killing: Pandit shop owner says he left at police warningSubscriber Only

November 10, 2021 12:42 IST

A senior officer in J&K Police, who did not wish to be identified, confirmed that Mawa had been alerted about a possible attack, and that the shop-owner had earlier been provided with two Personal Security Officers (PSOs).

The two killings have happened within 24 hours despite heightened security across Srinagar. (File)

Day after policeman shot in Srinagar, salesman of a Pandit’s shop is killed

November 9, 2021 07:10 IST

Mohammad Ibrahim Khan, 45, who worked as a salesman at a grocery shop run by a Kashmiri Pandit in Bohri Kadal, was shot in the chest and abdomen.

Mayor of Srinagar Junaid Azim Mattu took to Twitter to announce Srinagar's inclusion in the list. (Source: Thinkstock Images)

Srinagar added to UNESCO’s network of creative cities

November 8, 2021 21:04 IST

While Indian National Commission for Cooperation with UNESCO (INCCU) had recommended Srinagar and Gwalior for inclusion in the coveted list, only Jammu and Kashmir's summer capital made it.

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Srinagar court seeks police response on seizure of vehicles ahead of Amit Shah’s visit

November 8, 2021 10:24 IST

Over the last month, J&K Police seized motorcycles in the Valley, especially in Srinagar, without citing specific reasons, residents alleged.

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Terrorists manage to flee after brief gunfight with security forces in Srinagar

November 5, 2021 16:29 IST

The incident took place near SKIMS Hospital in Bemina area of the city on the Srinagar-Baramulla highway.

People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration termed the creation of the SIA, a measure aimed at strengthening the “repressive apparatus” in the region.

J&K parties slam SIA, say another agency to ‘repress’ peopleSubscriber Only

November 3, 2021 08:05 IST

They alleged that new agency will be used to “repress” the people of J&K further.

J&K Lt Governor Manoj Sinha on Tuesday ordered the termination of Feroz Ahmad Lone, a resident of central Kashmir's Budgam who was deputy superintendent, jail, before he was arrested by NIA in 2018.

‘Security threat’: DSP, school principal sacked

November 3, 2021 03:51 IST

Over the last four months, J&K has terminated services of at least 29 government employees — four from Jammu region and the rest from Kashmir Valley.

J&K to set up new specialised agency to investigate terrorism casesSubscriber Only

November 2, 2021 07:40 IST

The SIA will be the nodal agency for “coordinating with the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and other Central Agencies and shall take such other measures as may be necessary [for] speedy and effective investigation and prosecution of terrorism related cases.”

Reacting to the court's order, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president and former Jammu Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday said “the wheels of justice have completely collapsed" (Express File Photo by Shuaib Masoodi)

PDP claims Mehbooba Mufti placed under house arrest in Srinagar

November 1, 2021 16:19 IST

Mehbooba was put under house arrest at her Fairview residence in Gupkar locality of Srinagar and not allowed to move out, the PDP leader claimed. She was to visit the family of slain youth Shahid Ahmad in south Kashmir's Anantnag district.

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Father of Valley student booked for cheering Pak seeks ‘forgiveness for him’; Mufti urges PM to interveneSubscriber Only

October 31, 2021 07:13 IST

Three Kashmiri students — Showkat, Inayat Altaf Sheikh and Arshad Yosuf Ahmad — were booked for sedition over a “WhatsApp status that celebrated Pakistan's win”. They were detained a day after the game, which Pakistan had won. They were booked for sedition.

Centrally sponsored schemes are largely funded by the Union government but are implemented by the states. A part of the expenditure for such schemes is borne by the states.

J&K gets less than 10% of funds for Central schemes for 2021-2022Subscriber Only

October 31, 2021 12:12 IST

As on October 27, as many as 25 departments of the Union Territory received just Rs 1,809 crore, which is less than 10 per cent of the CSS allocation of Rs 18,527 crore for 2021-22.