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Srinagar: A 35-year-old non-local painter who was admitted in a Srinagar hospital with his throat-slit died on Tuesday afternoon. A police officer told GNS that some locals found the painter lying in a pool of blood with his throat-slit…

Srinagar: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has seized heroin worth Rs 10 crore, which was suspected to have been smuggled in from Pakistan, from a residential area here, official said Tuesday. On the basis of specific…

Srinagar: Suspected militants on Tuesday hurled a grenade on an army bunker in Sopore area of North Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Official sources told GNS that the militants lobbed a grenade on army Bunker near Degree college, however…

Why is the Indian Army planning to move the Rashtriya Rifles headquarters from Delhi to Srinagar? The Rashtriya Rifles headquarter, which supervises the thrust against militants in the volatile Kashmir region might be shifted from the…

Muzaffarnagar: A Dalit medical student was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Mandla village, police said Tuesday. Circle Officer Rizwan Ahmad said Rajat was Monday evening killed when he was returning to his village from college. He…

The two militants killed in a gunfight with the government forces in Handwara area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district last night were affiliated with Lashkar-e-Toiba outfit, officials said. The slain were identified as Liyaqat, a…

Two militants were killed in a gunfight with the government forces in Langate area of Handwara last night, police said. A spokesman said that the state police and security forces launched a joint search operation based on “credible” inputs…

Srinagar: A gunfight broke out in Galoora area of Handwara in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Monday. Reports reaching GNS said that that army’s 30 RR, 92 bn CRPF and SOG cordoned Galoora area of Langate during pre dawn hours. Soon…

SRINAGAR: Unknown gunmen on Monday night shot dead a man in Khanyar locality of Srinagar city. Reports said that gunmen opened fire on Abdul Ahad while he was driving his car. They said that the deceased was a resident of Lalpora in north…