Militants shot dead a Kashmiri Pandit and injured his cousin on Tuesday at an apple orchard in south Kashmir’s Shopian district, evoking sharp condemnation from the Union Territory administration and the mainstream political parties.
In a span of 102 days, militants targeted the Kashmiri Pandit community again by killing a KP farmer and leaving his brother injured. The death, however, triggered massive sympathy and demonstration of communal harmony as a large number of Muslims took part in the last rites of slain KP member in Chotigam, Shopian district of southern Kashmir.
Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha said on Tuesday condemned the deadly attack on Kashmiri Pandits and said that “terrorists” responsible for the barbaric act will not be spared.
Chenab Bridge, considered to be the world’s highest railway bridge is nearing completion and generating hope of uninterrupted supply line and transport connection for passenger traffic, once the direct link between Kashmir Valley and rest of India becomes a reality.
Seven ITBP personnel died and 32 security personnel were injured when the bus in which they were returning from Amarnath Yatra duty fell into a deep gorge in the Pahalgam area of Jammu and Kashmir, a police official said.
In a major shake-up of its Jammu and Kashmir unit, the Congress on Tuesday appointed Vikar Rasool Wani as the party’s J&K chief and senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad the head of the campaign committee.
The weather department on Tuesday predicted widespread light to moderate rain and thundershowers over Kashmir Valley and isolated showers in Jammu region during the next 24 hours.
All the eleven convicts sentenced to life imprisonment in the 2002 post-Godhra Bilkis Bano gang rape case on Monday walked out of the Godhra sub-jail after the Gujarat government allowed their release under its remission policy, an official said.
The Jammu & Kashmir Government’s home department on Sunday accorded official sanction for the creation of Village Defence Guards Scheme (VDGS)-2022, in an attempt to “inculcate an attitude of self protection in security matters amongst the local population and to uphold the sovereignty and integrity of the nation”.
Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Monday said the Union territory had put behind strikes and stone pelting and entered a new era of development and peace.
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