LAHORE — Fourteen children died after the roof of a tutoring centre collapsed in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore on Tuesday, rescue officials said, as authorities opened the way for a possible negligence investigation. Punjab’s emergency service said rescuers found children and a 30-year-old female teacher under rubble of the private after-school facility. The dead […]
JAMMU — A chargesheet was filed against a man on Tuesday for allegedly duping two brothers of Rs 10 crore by claiming to have secured an Army contract and using a forged supply order to obtain bank credit facilities, officials said. The chargesheet was filed before a local court against Puneet Rasutra of Rehari, Jammu, […]
JAMMU (KIMS) — The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Tuesday arrested a patwari and his assistant for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe of ₹70,000 in Jammu. According to an ACB statement, Shashi Kumar, Patwari of Patwar Halqa Gole, and his assistant, Harkeerat Singh, were trapped and arrested after a complaint alleging that they had demanded […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Tuesday said it has filed chargesheets in two separate corruption cases before the competent Special Courts after completion of investigations and obtaining the requisite prosecution sanctions. According to an ACB statement, in the first case, a chargesheet was filed before the Court of Special Judge, Anti-Corruption, Baramulla, […]
JAMMU — Two persons were killed and two others, including a woman, were injured after a truck collided with a tractor on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. The accident occurred around late Monday night near New Khajuria Dhaba at Peerah when a truck, travelling from Jammu towards […]
SRINAGAR — PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday claimed several leaders and workers of her party were placed under house arrest to prevent them from protesting against the government over the issue of “backdoor” appointments. “The NC government repeatedly hides behind the excuse that the police department is beyond its control whenever questions of accountability […]
NEW DELHI — General Dhiraj Seth, an accomplished military officer with the rare distinction of heading two operational Army commands along the western front, took charge as the new Chief of the Army Staff on Tuesday, officials said. Gen Seth assumed the reins of the 1.3 million-strong force at a time when it is forging […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Jammu and Kashmir Police on Tuesday said they arrested an alleged inter-district drug smuggler in Anantnag district of South Kashmir and seized 2.613 kilograms of heroin (brown sugar) worth an estimated ₹20 crore in the illicit market. According to a police statement, the recovery was made during routine naka checking at Halmulla, […]
KABUL — At least 28 civilians were killed and 49 injured in airstrikes carried out by Pakistan on its border with Afghanistan, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said on Monday. Pakistan’s security forces said they had killed at least 29 militants in ground and air operations along the Afghanistan border, while the […]
JAMMU — A young woman constable of the Border Security Force (BSF) was found hanging in her room at the force’s frontier headquarters here on Monday, officials said. The deceased, Constable Bishnu Priya Roy, was undergoing a three-month Lab Assistant Course that began on May 25 and was staying in accommodation allotted to her at […]