JAMMU — A massive search operation was launched on Tuesday across some villages in Thanamandi area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district after CCTV footage purportedly captured the movement of two suspected terrorists, officials said. The suspected terrorists were caught on CCTV crossing a road late on Sunday night, prompting the Special Operations Group (SOG) […]
JAMMU — A drone was recovered from an open field in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, officials said. The drone was found lying in an agricultural field near Devak by a resident of Chak Salaria, who spotted it while out on a morning run at 5:50 am, the officials said. They said […]
JAMMU — Amid the row over Ayodhya’s Ram Mandir donation theft, a court in Jammu and Kashmir has directed the J&K Crime Branch to produce records related to over Rs 550 crore worth of “fake silver” offerings at the Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine. The court issued the directions while hearing a plea seeking registration of […]
NEW DELHI — A Delhi court on Monday rejected the bail plea of the founder-editor of a Jammu-based news outlet, arrested by the ED in May for allegedly impersonating an “influential” PMO official and cheating people of over Rs 4 crore on the pretext of getting their work done. The court said Vijay Gupta “failed” […]
JAMMU — Authorities on Monday demolished the house of an alleged drug peddler and seized the property of another alleged narcotics trafficker in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district as part of an intensified crackdown on the drug trade. Officials said both actions, carried out in separate cases, were done in accordance with the relevant legal […]
SRINAGAR — The National Medical Commission (NMC) has granted permission to increase the annual MBBS intake at the Government Medical College Jammu by 50 seats, an official spokesperson said on Monday. The announcement was made by the Health and Medical Education Department. The Medical Assessment and Rating Board of the NMC has issued the Letter […]
JAMMU — A court here has remanded three publishers to 10-day police custody in connection with the alleged publication and circulation of books allegedly glorifying separatist leaders, officials said on Monday. The Counter Intelligence Unit in Jammu arrested the three publishers on Sunday as part of its ongoing probe into the controversy over certain books […]
JAMMU — At least 18 people, most of them Amarnath pilgrims, were injured when two buses and a car collided outside a community kitchen on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway on Monday, officials said. The accident occurred outside the Chanderkote Langar point at around 7.20 am after one of the buses allegedly suffered a brake failure, […]
JAMMU — Amid tight security, over 7,700 devotees departed from Jammu on Monday in the twelfth batch for the twin base camps of the annual Amarnath Yatra in the Kashmir Valley. So far, more than 252,000 pilgrims have paid their respects at the ice Lingam of Lord Shiva, located at the 3,880-metre-high cave shrine. Officials […]
JAMMU — A Pakistani intruder retreated across the International Border after Border Security Force personnel fired warning shots when he attempted to enter Indian territory in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district on Sunday, officials said. BSF troops observed the intruder’s movement in the Bobiya area of Hiranagar sector this evening and challenged him, the officials […]