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Wednesday, June 03, 2026

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Drug crackdown hitting terror funding: LG Sinha

SRINAGAR: The Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha today led ‘Drug-Free J&K Padyatra’ in Kulgam and addressed a public meeting. The Lieutenant Governor said that this people’s movement has connected every heart across Jammu Kashmir with a shared purpose to make their
Jun. 2, 2026
Kashmiris stranded outside the valley brought back by government queuing up for screening at a COVID facilitation Centre in Srinagar in June (File Photo: KM/Umar Ganie)

‘Switched off’, ‘out of coverage area’: Stranded Kashmiris suffer as officials go incommunicado

Srinagar: Amid COVID-19 lockdown, thousands of Kashmiris stranded in other states of India are left confused about their possible evacuation by the J&K government as most designated officials remain unreachable. The phone
Encounter site at Beighpora, Awantipora, Pulwama where Hizb Chief Operational Commander Riyaz Naikoo and his aide were killed on May 6, 2020 (Photo: KM/Umar Ganie)

Naikoo was hiding between ‘false walls’, police had captured person who’d built hideout

Srinagar: The hideout of Hizb operational commander Riyaz Naikoo was constructed between two “false walls” in a house and police had captured the person who had built it, a top police officer
Encounter site at Beighpora, Awantipora, Pulwama where Hizb Chief Operational Commander Riyaz Naikoo and his aide were killed on May 6, 2020 (Photo: KM/Umar Ganie)

Naikoo, three other militants buried away in Sonamarg: Report

Srinagar: The bodies of Hizb militant commander Riyaz Naikoo and his aide who were killed in an encounter in Pulwama on Thursday were not handed over to the families and instead buried
May. 7, 2020