A gun battle erupted between security forces and militants in Kashmir on Wednesday, two police sources said, the first since mobile phone links were restored in the region in an effort to restore normalcy after a prolonged shutdown.
Soldiers raided a village in south Kashmir, long a hotbed of separatist revolt, following intelligence reports that militants had taken shelter there, said the sources who declined to be identified.
There were no confirmed reports of casualties from the fighting, they said.
India on Monday restored some mobile phone services in Kashmir, two months after imposing a communications clampdown.
New Delhi cut off telephone and internet lines in Jammu and Kashmir ahead of revoking the state’s special rights on Aug. 5, striking down long-standing constitutional provisions for the Muslim-majority region that is also claimed by neighbouring Pakistan.
Kashmir, the world’s second-largest producer of saffron has faced a decline in saffron cultivation over the past two decades. Some…
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Christianity’s holiest shrine in the world, is an unlikely place to lose yourself in…
The debate over the future relationship between news and social media is bringing us closer to a long-overdue reckoning. Social…
On Sunday, May 5, Congress leader Supriya Shrinate claimed that PM Narendra Modi was reading from his 2019 script for…
As I write, the grim count of journalists killed in Gaza since last October has reached 97. Reporters Without Borders…
December 30, 2022, was a day to forget for India’s already badly mauled and tamed media. For, that day, influential…
This website uses cookies.