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| Opn flush out launched in Bandipore | | | | Jammu, Aug 13: After a grenade blast in the Bandipore area of North Kashmir which killed three and injured 16 others, the security forces have launched a major operation to flush the militants out.
Three persons had died and sixteen others were injured when unidentified militants lobbed a hand grenade in Bandipora today.
Unidentified militants lobbed a Hand Grenade at Nowpora Chowk in Bandipora, today in which a total of nineteen people were injured. The injured were shifted to hospital, from where fourteen were referred to Srinagar.
Two years after militants established a base in the hills of the Shamsabari range for making forays into the rest of the Kashmir Valley, the army has finally launched operations to flush them out.
The base was being used by militants to make their way to south and central Kashmir, and troops engaged in counter-insurgency operations are now conducting operations against them and rigorously monitoring wireless communications between militant groups, official sources said.
The army acted only after state police and Central security agen... | |
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| Gen Sinha pooh poohs troop cut demand | | | | Even as the tempers among the Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party cool down for a while on the issue of discord between them, the Governor Lt Gen SK Sinha has yet again rejected the demand for reduction in troop strength in Jammu and Kashmir.
Speaking on the sidelines of a book release function in New Delhi today, Gen Sinha said,
"People, who are demanding demilitarisation do no not know what it means. It means vacating the entire region of the army. Return of troops can take place when insurgency is under control, then the police can take over. Unfortunately we have not reached that stage yet".
He said the troop reduction had become a "favourite topic" for everybody and p... | |
| | | | Coolant cools SSP, falls in VO net | | | | Jammu, Aug 13: A Senior Superintendent of the Jammu and Kashmir Police, posted at the Police Motor Transport Workshop, has fallen into Vigilance net for purchasing vehicle coolants at exorbitant rates.
According to a spokesman, the State Vigilance Organization has unearthed a scam in Police Transport Workshop Srinagar, , and arrested Senior Superintendent of Police Iqbal Afroz Malik, and a supplier for causing a loss of over Rs. 3.18 lacs to state exchequer
It is learnt that the SSP under a criminal conspiracy to confer pecuniary benefits on himself and the supplier purchased vehicle Coolant (RTU) on highly exorbitant rates.
On receipt of an input, SVO conducted a verifica... | |
| | | | Khoda's I-Day gift: 34 SIs promoted | | | | Jammu, Aug 13: As an apt Independence Gift to the deserving few in his force, the Director General of Police Kuldeep Khoda has ordered promotions 34 Sub Inspector to the post of Inspector.
The promotions have been ordered in the Executive wing of the Jammu and Kashmir Police, said an official spokesman.
Those who have been promoted include Rajesh Anand, Sanjiv Khajuria, Bupinder Singh, Bharat Sharma, Daljeet Singh, Dinesh Sharma, Pardeep Kumar, Ashwani Kumar, Jatinder Singh; Sanjeev Singh; Rajesh Jamwal; Syed Afaq Ahmed, Gurpurab Singh; Sandeep Mahajan; Champa Devi, Raj Kumar Koul, Kewel Kishore; Murtaza Ahmed, Parveez Sajaid, Masoof Ahmed; Shakeel Ahmed Bhat, Shiekh Manzoor; Arjan ... | |
| | | | PDP, NC in Catch-22, as Azad plays ST card | | | | Jammu, Aug 13: Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad's spanner of offering reservation in legislature to the Gujjars and other Scheduled Tribes has created a political crisis of the sorts for the Peoples Democratic Party and the opposition National Conference.
Azad had last week said that he is ready to offer political reservation to the Gujjars provided that the other parts including the Peoples Democratic Party and the National Conference arrive at a consensus on the issue. Since this statement of the Chief Minister, there is a upheaval among the political parties as Congress initiative of offering reservation to the Gujjars means community's support to the party in more than 20 assembly c... | |
| | | | Muslim jawan of Sikh regiment ends life | | | | Jammu, Aug 13: A jawan of Sikh Regiment committed suicide by shooting himself with his service weapon at Balra, Bhaderwah, on monday.
According to offical sources, he was identified Sulemaan Khan, S/o Sher Khan, resident of Maler Kotla in Punjab and was posted with 152 TA (Sikh) at Balra, Bhaderwah camp.
Sources said that deceased shot himself with his Insas rifle around 8:15 am, this morning.
He was on sentry duty when he committed suicide. He fired two shots at his neck and head killing himself on the spot. The body was shifted to Hospital postmortem.
According to Defence spokesman, Col Goswami told KIP that army authorities have ordered a Court of Inquiry to know the... | |
| | | | 14 bodies recovered, 25 still missing | | Kundroo becomes mysterious bed of death, destruction | | | Jammu/Srinagar: Two days after the devastating mysterious fire in the South Kashmir ammunition depot, though the blaze has been put under control but an uncertainty about the end to explosions still looms large. The human loss in the inferno has also not been fully calculated as more and more charred bodies are still being recovered from the debris while dozens still remained missing.
Though the officials did not confirm but according to the locals and eyewitnesses 14 bodies were recovered from the debris today. Officials, however, confirmed that 25 people are still missing and possibilities are that none among them is alive.
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