Six policemen and two civilians lost their lives while three militants were also gunned down by security forces on Friday.
Six policemen, including an Station House Officer (SHO), were martyred after terrorists ambushed a police party in Achabal town in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district on Friday
The Election Commission cancelled the Anantnag Lok Sabha bypoll late Monday night saying the ground situation is not conducive to hold free and fair elections.
According to police, two armed men entered into a branch of Jammu and Kashmir Bank on the Tehsil office premises in Mehandi Kadal in Anantnag this afternoon.
The ruling PDP has urged the Election Commission to defer indefinitely the bypoll to the Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency.
The Election Commission tonight deferred the Anantnag Lok Sabha by-poll, scheduled for April 12, to May 25.
The Kashmir valley remains in ferment and turbulence threatens to spill over to Anantnag, the Lok Sabha seat where by-poll is two days away.
Unidentified miscreants escaped with an ATM, containing over Rs 14 lakh, in Anantnag district of south Kashmir today. According to police, the burglars struck at Mominabad village near Ashajipora in the wee hours and took
An encounter broke out between security forces and holed up militants in south Kashmir's Anantnag district today.
Militants dressed in army uniform stormed a police picket guarding a TV tower in Kashmirs Anantnag district and decamped with five service rifles of the cops posted there.
Terrorism continues to haunt the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir as a group of militants today launched an attack at the CRPF troopers in a south Kashmir village, leaving five of them injured, police
Amid the ongoing shutdown in Jammu and Kashmir, several militants today lobbed a grenade at a police station in Anantnag town, killing one and injuring 17, police said. The injured included seven policemen as well.
Srinagar: The Army today ordered an inquiry into the firing incident at Qazigund in Anantang district of violence-hit Kashmir in which three persons were killed and six others injured. The inquiry comes amid the
Anantnag: Counting for the Anantnag assembly constituency was briefly disrupted on Saturday after Congress supporters alleged that they found unsealed Electronic Voting Machines or EVMs. But the vote count resumed immediately even as dozens
For tomorrow's Anantnag Assembly bypoll, elaborate security arrangements have been made amid the boycott call given by the Kashmiri separatist leaders.
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