JAMMU — Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case on against four accused four former postal officer and unknown others on allegations of fraudulent closure and withdrawal of funds from PPF account in Jammu. In a statement, a spokesperson said that the case was registered on the basis of complaint received from senior […]
JAMMU — Two bodies, including that of a 12-year-old boy, were recovered on Tuesday as rescue operation continued in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district to trace five other missing people following a cloudburst, officials said. The cloudburst occurred in Panchayats Kumate, Dhraman and Halla in Rajgarh tehsil late Monday afternoon, causing flash floods in Tanger […]
JAMMU — A group of Village Defence Guards opened fire on observing suspicious movement in a village in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Tuesday. The guards noticed two unidentified persons near the house of a political activist at village Meira-Nagrota, eight km from Rajouri district headquarters, late Monday night, the officials […]
JAMMU — Jammu Police have successfully resolved the case of abduction and murder of Mangal Singh, a cab driver from Jammu, by apprehending a gang of interstate criminals from Ratia Fatehbad, Haryana, the police said. The police were able to recover Mangal Singh’s body from the Bajalta Morh area in Nagrota following the gang’s disclosure. […]
JAMMU — Security has been beefed up at government hospitals in Jammu with the deployment of armed security personnel to ensure the safety of medical staff and doctors, officials said on Friday. This step was taken in the wake of the rape and murder of a doctor at a hospital in Kolkata and related incidents […]
JAMMU — A mini-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) of the Indian Army inadvertently drifted into Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, officials said. The UAV, which was on a test training sortie in the hinterland in Bhimber Gali area, developed some snag and lost control with the […]
JAMMU — A criminal was arrested in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district and an illegal pistol and five live cartridges were recovered from his possession on Friday, officials here said. The accused, Mohd Latief alias Latief Punjabi of Hoshiarpur in Punjab, was arrested during checking at Chak Dayala near Basantar bridge, the officials said. According […]
JAMMU — The Yuva Rajput Sabha (YRS) on Friday took out a protest rally here to press for early restoration of Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood and threatened to sit on an indefinite hunger strike. The YRS, a non-political organisation of Rajputs in Jammu, has been fighting for the cause of Dogras of the region for […]
JAMMU — The Jammu and Kashmir Election Department has removed over 28,000 defacements within 72 hours following announcement of the assembly elections in the Union Territory, an official said. With the announcement of the assembly elections on August 16, the Election Commission had issued directions for the effective enforcement of provisions of the Model Code […]
JAMMU — A 71-year-old man died on Wednesday allegedly because there was no one to give him CPR at a hospital in Ramban district, an official said. Ghulam Nabi Bhat, who was suffering from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, was rushed to Sub-District Hospital in Banihal by his son Altaf Ahmad, but he was forced to […]