JAMMU — A 55-year-old special police officer, who had gone missing with his service rifle, was found dead in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district on Friday, officials said. The body of Bashir Ahmed was found in a forest area near his residence in Trigham, along with his self-loading service rifle and a magazine, police said. […]
RAMBAN — District Police Ramban have arrested an absconder who had been evading arrest for nearly a decade in a narcotics-related case registered at Police Station Batote in 2015. The accused, identified as Aijaz Ahmed, son of Mohd Shabir Bhat, a resident of Churath in Kulgam district, was wanted in connection with FIR No. 68/2015 […]
JAMMU — Police have traced a missing woman and a missing girl in two separate cases in Pallanwala and Chowki Choura areas of Jammu, with both missing reports subsequently closed. In the first case, a woman from Millen Di Khui was traced by Police Post Pallanwala on October 15. Her missing report had been entered […]
KATHUA — Jammu and Kashmir Police in Kathua has detained a habitual drug peddler under the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (PIT-NDPS) Act, 1988, and lodged him in jail. According to police, a team from Police Station Hiranagar executed the detention warrant on October 14 against Ranja, son of Nashar […]
RAJOURI — Police in Rajouri have arrested the main accused in a case of arson and property damage following a fatal minibus accident in Moughla area of Teryath on October 9. The accused has been identified as Shubham Rajput, 23, son of Kamal Singh, a resident of Moughla, Teryath. He was arrested in connection with […]
KATHUA — The District Administration Kathua on Wednesday demolished a residential structure belonging to an alleged drug peddler at Prithi Chak (Chack Drab Khan), citing illegal construction on government land. According to an official statement, the demolition drive was carried out under the Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyan with the assistance of the Revenue Department and […]
JAMMU — A central team on Wednesday visited Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD)-affected areas of Samba, Kathua and Jammu districts to assess the livestock health situation and review measures being undertaken to contain the disease, an official spokesman said. Dr Sudam Bagh, Deputy Commissioner (Livestock Health), Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Union Ministry of Fisheries, […]
JAMMU — The body of a woman, who was swept away by floodwaters in the outskirts of Jammu city, was recovered on Tuesday after three consecutive days of search by the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and local police, officials said. Ruksana Kouser, wife of Mohd Kaleem, was swept away […]
POONCH — Security forces recovered weapons and war-like stores concealed inside a natural cave in the Satarban Forest area of Poonch district on Tuesday, the Indian Army’s White Knight Corps said. According to a post on X by the White Knight Corps, troops launched a joint operation in the area based on intelligence inputs from […]
JAMMU — At least four residents of Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) were killed in a suspected improvised explosive device (IED) blast across the Line of Control (LoC), adjacent to the Krishna Ghati sector in Poonch district, on Monday, prompting heightened security on the Indian side, officials said. The powerful blast reportedly occurred in Satwal-Naki […]