What’s the reason for targeting Simla Agreement? | Explained

What’s the reason for targeting Simla Agreement? | Explained

Pakistan’s flag missing from the table at Raj Bhawan on which the July 1972 Simla Agreement was signed, in Shimla, Friday, April 25, 2025. Pakistan on Thursday suspended the 1972 Simla Agreement. | Photo Credit: PTI The story so far: In response to India’s decision to suspend the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty in the aftermath … Read more

NIA searches 19 locations including in UP, J&K in JeM conspiracy case

NIA searches 19 locations including in UP, J&K in JeM conspiracy case

The National Investigation Agency on Thursday conducted searches at 19 locations as part of a probe into a conspiracy by Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed to radicalise youths and spread terror in India, officials said. The searches were being conducted in three states, including Uttar Pradesh, and in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. In J-K, the … Read more

Budgam youth held, was planning to join ISIS-inspired terror group: J&K Police

Budgam youth held, was planning to join ISIS-inspired terror group: J&K Police

The J&K Police arrested a local youth from Budgam, who was about to join terrorist ranks on the motivation of some Pakistani based terrorist handlers. Representative image | Photo Credit: NISSAR AHMAD The J&K Police on Thursday said it arrested a local youth from Budgam, “who was about to join terrorist ranks on the motivation of some … Read more

Centre lists four Jammu and Kashmir Bills, and three criminal law Bills for passage in the winter session of Parliament

Centre lists four Jammu and Kashmir Bills, and three criminal law Bills for passage in the winter session of Parliament

Parliamentarians in the Lok Sabha. File. | Photo Credit: PTI The Union government has listed the four Bills related to Jammu & Kashmir, including one pertaining to the reservation of Assembly seats for “Kashmiri migrants”, to be taken up for discussion in the winter session of Parliament commencing on December 4. The Jammu and Kashmir Reservation … Read more

Landmine explosion near LoC in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch, three Army personnel injured

Landmine explosion near LoC in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch, three Army personnel injured

Three Army personnel were injured in a landmine explosion near the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on November 1, officials said. The soldiers were patrolling Phagwari Gali area in Mendhar sector when the landmine got activated, the officials said quoting preliminary information. The injured were evacuated to a nearby medical … Read more

Operation in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag enters fifth day

Operation in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag enters fifth day

Army soldiers are seen near the encounter site in Gadole village of Kokernag Anantnag district, South Kashmir on September 16, 2023 | Photo Credit: NISSAR AHMAD The operation to flush out terrorists hiding in Gadole forest area in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district entered the fifth day on September 17 as security forces widened the … Read more

J&K woman faces allegations of marrying over a dozen men, decamping with ‘mehr’ money, gold

J&K woman faces allegations of marrying over a dozen men, decamping with ‘mehr’ money, gold

These three men claimed to have married the same woman since 2022 | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement In the past 24 hours, over half-a-dozen men have held street demonstrations in Srinagar against a woman from the Pir Panjal valley’s Rajouri district, whom they accuse of marrying multiple men for a couple of months and later … Read more

Fresh firefight takes place at Rajouri encounter site in Jammu: Army

Fresh firefight takes place at Rajouri encounter site in Jammu: Army

Representational file image of security personnel taking position in a forest area in Jammu and Kashmir. | Photo Credit: PTI A fresh firefight between the security forces and hiding militants took place in the Kandi Forest area in Jammu division’s Rajouri on May 6. The Army said the security forces engaged the hiding militants in … Read more

Data | Risky diet: Which Indian States top fried food and aerated drink consumption

Data | Risky diet: Which Indian States top fried food and aerated drink consumption

Fizz and fries: Consumption of fried food and aerated drinks vary across States in India Consumption of fried foods and aerated drinks is relatively higher in Goa, many Northeastern and eastern States as compared to the rest of India, according to data from the National Family and Health Survey (NFHS)-5 conducted in 2019-21. According to … Read more