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March 25 A request would be sent to the US to seek details from a service provider of "virtual SIMs", which were used by the JeM suicide bomber behind the Pulwama attack and his Pakistan and Kashmir-based handlers, officials said. Piecing together probe from the site of the terror strike, searches carried out by the Jammu Kashmir police and central security agencies at an encounter site in Tral as well as other locations, it was found that the bomber, Adil Dar, was in constant touch with the JeM across the border, they said. The main mastermind of the audacious attack, Mudassir Khan, was killed in the encounter in Tral. Forty CRPF personnel were killed on February 14 when Dar rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into a paramilitary force bus at Pulwama in South Kashmir. India retali...

March 24 A 24-year-old Kashmiri student was assaulted by a group of youth in AECS Layout near HAL in southeast Bengaluru on March 20, Deccan Herald reported. The victim, identified as Absar Zahoor Dhar who does modelling to fund his studies, said he had no idea why he was assaulted. The police, however, said the attack had nothing to do with the Pulwama incident or any outsider animosity. Absar Zahoor Dhar, who is from Srinagar in Kashmir ha failed a complaint with the Bangalore Police in the HAL police, who upon his complaint have arrested the four accused persons, identified as Nithin (25), Manjesh (21), Gautham (26), and Abhi alias Santhosh (20), alias Santhosh (20), all residents of Kundalahalli Colony. Dhar, a civil engineering student at the CMRIT College, on the evening ...

March 23 Eight Members of a Muslim family in Gurgaon and guests who had come to visit them were beaten with sticks and rods, allegedly by a group of 20-25 men after they barged into their home and attacked them on Holi evening. The incident took place after when the boys of the family were playing cricket and not Holi, and the attackers demanded that they “go to Pakistan and play”. According to an FIR filed by the UP Police, the incident took place around 5 pm, at the home of Mohammad Sajid, who hails from Uttar Pradesh and has been living here for the last three years with his wife Sameena and six children. In the complaint, Sajid’s nephew Dilshaad, who was among those beaten up, said the trouble started when he was playing cricket with some others in a vacant plot near the ho...

March 19 In one of the rare occasions, President Ram Nath Kovind on Tuesday awarded Shaurya Chakra to 16-year-old Irfan Ramzan Sheikh of Imam Sahib in Shopian for fighting militants who attacked his residence in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir. Shaurya Chakra is usually awarded to armed forces and para-military personnel for "gallantry otherwise in the face of the enemy". During the intervening night of October 16-17 of 2017, militants cordoned off the house of Sheikh. His father Mohammad Ramzan was an ex-sarpanch with affiliations to the People's Democratic Party (PDP). When Sheikh, the eldest son of Mohammad Ramzan, opened the door, he found three militants in the verandah of the house armed with rifles and grenades. "Sensing that the militants could harm his family, he...

March 18 Pakistan violated ceasefire early on Monday morning along the Line of Control (LoC) in Sunderbani sector of Rajouri district, the Indian Army said, adding that, The Indian Army is retaliating effectively. This comes after Pakistan on Wednesday violated ceasefire in Poonch sector of the state. In this fresh violation of ceasefire, one Indian Army man was killed, while three others were injured. Pakistani Rangers also initiated an unprovoked ceasefire violation in Chakkan da Bagh crossing point where the Line of Control (LoC) trade centre is located. The firing which began at about 5:30 a.m stopped at about 7:15 am. Earlier, on 6:30 pm on Sunday Pakistan violated ceasefire here evoking an effective reply from the Indian Army. Earlier, Pakistani Rangers also init...

March 15 Kashmir valley on Friday came together to denounce the massacre of 49 people in two New Zealand mosques saying the brutality proved that there is no place terrorism cannot reach. Across the political divide and on the street, Kashmiris voiced their disgust over the way gunmen said to be white ‘supremacists’  entered two mosques and opened indiscriminate fire, even filming the gruesome killings. Earlier,  Mirwaiz in a Tweet had expressed shock and grief over the attack, “Shocked and deeply grieved by the barbaric attack at twin mosques in Christchurch. Once again humanity becomes a casualty.” National Conference leader Omar Abdullah said: “Good to see most people are calling the New Zealand mosque firing what it is – a terror attack. No words of condemnation are strong ...

March 15 Personal Belongings of eight Kashmiri students were allegedly vandalized by mobs at their their rented accommodation near the BFIT College in the vicinity of the institution at Dehradun. The Students of BFIT College, Dehradun who left the college recently after facing attacks at hands of Right wing Hindu in the aftermath of the Pulwama suicide attack last month said their belonging were ransacked by unknown mobs. They alleged that mobs had broken into their rented accommodation and stolen their personal stuff including laptops and other documents. While some of the students returned to the college from the valley on Tuesday, others reached there on Wednesday. The students alleged that the landlord of the house asked the Right wing crowds to enter the house and also ...

March 14 In a major boost to tackling spread of fake news, the Kozhikode sub-court II ordered Sudarshan TV Channel Founder Suresh Chavhanke to pay a compensation of Rs 50 lakh to Malabar Gold - the diamond company run by M.P. Ahammed. Malabar Gold had filed a defamation case against Sudarshan TV and its founder editor Suresh Chavhanke for airing a morphed visuals and fake news back in 2016. ALSO READ: If you Want Revenge, Come and Fight the War- Basic Classes for Indian News Anchors According to Art of Jewelry, the video showing Pakistan’s Independence Day celebrations organized by a Dubai-based financial services company was morphed by the channel to portray that the event was organized by Malabar Gold at a function held in Chennai. Alleging that the channel aired the fake ...