Excelsior Correspondent BHADERWAH, Mar 5: A 35-year-old man allegedly shot himself dead with his brother’s rifle in Doda district today, a police officer said. Sub-Divisional Police Officer (Bhaderwah) Waseem Ahmad said that Arvind Kumar shot himself dead at his house in Sindra village of Bhalla tehsil around 8 am. He said Kumar’s elder brother is a Village Defence Guard (VDG) member who is allotted a rifle. Kumar reportedly used the weapon to kill himself, the officer said. The motive behind […]
ON the night of April 17, 1998, militants slaughtered 28 villagers in the Prankote area of Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir. Prankote, an administrative unit comprising several villages, could be reached after an eight-hour trek over a mountainous stretch.
Highest number of anti-militancy ops in 2022 Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Feb 8: The Centre today informed The Rajya Sabha that 27 persons including 25 security personnel and two civilians were killed in militant attacks across Jammu since August 5, 2019. In a written reply, Union Minister of State in the Ministry Of Home Affairs (MHA), Nityanand Rai said that a total of 25 security personnel including two from Jammu-one each in 2019 and 2022, 2 in Rajouri in 2020, […]
A total of 187 terrorists were killed and 111 counter-terror operations in Jammu and Kashmir in 2022. During the same period, 24 terrorists were arrested.