On 21 May 1990, Mirwaiz Farooq, the head priest of Srinagar's Jama Masjid, was killed by Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists who are believed to have seen him as a 'peacenik' and an 'Indian agent'.
Police suspect Yasir Ahmed slit DG (Prisons) Hemant Kumar Lohia's throat & stabbed him multiple times before fleeing. He was arrested Tuesday from a field in Jammu's Ramban district.
48-year-old Mohammed Yaseen is suspected to have worked as a conduit for hawala money and delivered it to terror operatives Lashkar-e-Taiba and Al Badr.
Vijay Kumar, 1997-batch IPS officer, says in interview that local support for terror outfits is falling, 'hybrid terrorists' are a challenge J&K Police is focussing on.
Exchange of fire took place with forces that had surrounded building, says top security source, to counter allegations this was a fake encounter in which innocent men were killed.
According to police, Aadil Farooq Bhat, who works with a local news agency, was also arrested in 2019. He allegedly worked as overground worker for Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Police & Army say militants are picking ‘soft targets’ but Yatra will be protected, reveal that Hizbul & Lashkar operatives are joining outfits like AGH to revive them.
Past three days marked pure chaos for Rawalpora as it became the site of perhaps the most intense violence Kashmir has seen since the killing of Riyaz Naikoo last May.
One policeman was also injured in the gunbattle that ensued after militants opened fire during a cordon and search operation at Zanigam village in Budgam district.
For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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