Qazigund News

IED found near Jammu-Srinagar highway in Qazigund A bomb disposal squad was rushed to the spot Security forces defused the IED at Damjan area of Qazigund

A huge quantity of arms and ammunition was recovered from the fur Recovery consists of 2 AK 56 rifles, 8 AK mags, ten 9mm pistols, 18 pistol mags, 90 (9×19) mm ammunition and 9 grenades

Three BJP local leaders were killed in Kulgam on Thursday BJP leaders have strongly condemned the killing of J&K BJP leaders They were shot dead by unidentified terrorists in the Qazigund area of J&K's Kulgam

Security has been heightened across the state and the security agencies have been directed to remain on high alert mode.

The minimum temperature in Kargil town plummeted over 14 degrees from the previous night's low of minus 6.1 degrees Celsius to settle at a low of minus 20.6 degrees Celsius.

A terrorist belonging to Pakistan-backed Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) was on Wednesday nabbed by the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Qazigund.

Militants on Friday attacked a police vehicle on the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway at Qazigund, police said.

Terrorists on Friday fired upon a police vehicle in Jammu and Kashmir's Kulgam district.

Two militants were killed in an encounter with security forces in Sopore township on Monday.

Army Chief Gen and top brass of the force on Sunday paid glowing tributes to the two soldiers who were killed in a militant attack near Qazigund.

Fresh snowfall occurred in Srinagar and some other parts of the Kashmir Valley on Friday, the Met department said.

The 300-km long Jammu-Srinagar national highway, the only surface link between Kashmir and rest of the country, was on Wednesday closed for vehicular traffic due to landslides triggered by rains in Ramban district.

A woman injured in clashes between security forces and protestors in South Kashmir succumbed at a hospital.

There was a huge respite in cold conditions in some places in Kashmir with the minimum temperature in Srinagar settling above the freezing point for the first time in the last 10 days.

A day after Srinagar witnessed the coldest night of the season, the minimum temperature increased at most places in Kashmir on Thursday providing some relief to the residents, even as the MeT Office here has forecast mainly dry weather over the next few days.