JAMMU — Jammu Inspector General of Police (IGP) Bhim Sen Tuti on Wednesday visited the border district of Poonch and reviewed security situation, officials said. Security has been beefed up and surveillance operations enhanced in the border district following a blast in Delhi on November 10 that claimed 15 lives. The senior officer visited Poonch […]
JAMMU — The Counter-Intelligence Unit of the Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday conducted searches in the high-security Kot Bhalwal jail in Jammu and the district jail in the border district of Poonch, officials said. A raid was conducted at the central jail Kot Bhalwal, which houses hardcore Pakistani and local terrorists, besides notorious criminals, […]
JAMMU — Police in Jammu will soon launch a dedicated web portal to streamline tenant verification and reduce the need for people to visit police stations, a senior official said on Tuesday. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Jammu, Joginder Singh, said the current manual system requires every tenant and landlord to physically visit the police […]
JAMMU — In a landmark initiative to empower and support the reintegration of ex-servicemen into the civilian workforce, the Ministry of Defence is organising a job fair at Satwari cantonment here on December 5, an official said on Tuesday. This job fair, being organised by Directorate General Resettlement (DGR), Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare, would serve […]
JAMMU — Authorities on Tuesday checked the lockers belonging to staff, students and doctors at the Government Medical College and Sri Maharaja Gulab Singh (SMGS) hospitals in Jammu as part of a drill amid tight security arrangements, officials said. The step was taken after some doctors were found involved in a major terror module and […]
JAMMU — A local court in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda has convicted three people in connection the murder of a woman 2016. Shakuntala Devi was killed and her husband Nehal Chand and son Chain Singh were injured in an attack by a rival group following a land dispute in Bhaderwah area of Doda district over […]
JAMMU — Five alleged drug peddlers, including a couple, were arrested along with narcotic substances from different places in Jammu, Udhampur and Poonch districts of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, police said. Amjad Khan alias Taiya and his wife Shamshad Akhter alias Putti were apprehended from a suspected drug hotspot in Sakinderpur Kothey area of […]
JAMMU — Three persons, including a couple, were injured in a boar attack near a forest in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district, officials said on Tuesday. Mohammad Mazhar (30), Afsana Kouser (25), and another person sustained injuries after being attacked by wild boars on Monday night in the Khabla area of Thanamandi tehsil, they said. […]
JAMMU — General Manager of Northern Railway, Ashok Kumar Verma, on Monday conducted an extensive inspection of the Srinagar-Baramulla section of the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link (USBRL) project, an official said here. Divisional Railway Manager, Jammu, Vivek Kumar, and other senior officials accompanied Verma during the inspection which was aimed at assessing the progress of ongoing […]
JAMMU — Several Hindu groups on Monday staged a joint protest at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Institute of Medical Excellence (SMVDIME) in Reasi district, urging authorities to revoke the first seat allocation list for MBBS admission. They also demanded a fresh admission process and a review of existing rules to guarantee sufficient reservation for Hindus […]