BANIHAL — Five alleged overground workers have been detained under the Public Safety Act for engagement in anti-national activities in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district on Thursday, officials said. Police prepared dossiers of the five persons and their activities, mostly in the district’s Banihal tehsil, they said. The district magistrate slapped them with the Public […]
SRINAGAR — National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday filed chargesheet against 12 persons in connection with Sunjwan Jammu militant attack in April this year. In a statement, NIA said that the charge-sheet was filed in the Special Court Jammu against the accused persons in the case relating to the “conspiracy hatched among Kashmir based (militant) […]
JAMMU — A policeman lost his life on Wednesday while saving his two children from drowning in a river in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district, officials said. The two children had slipped into the Ujh river while taking a bath in Jasrota area on Wednesday, they said. As father Seshipal Singh saw them drowning, he […]
RAMBAN — The panel launching of 240 feet CI-40R Bailey suspension bridge over the river Chenab in Maitra area of Ramban district has been started today, officials said. An official told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that the project was approved by National Highway Authority of India this year for de-launching of the existing […]
NEW DELHI — The CBI has arrested Border Security Force medical officer Karnail Singh in connection with alleged irregularities in the recruitment of sub-inspectors by the Jammu and Kashmir Services Selection Board (JKSSB), officials said on Wednesday. Singh was taken into custody on Tuesday and will be produced before the special Central Bureau of Investigation […]
BANIHAL — The digging work was completed Tuesday on a 10.2 km tunnel connecting Sumbar and Dharam villages on the 111-km under-construction Banihal-Katra Railway link, an official said. The breakthrough on T-48 Tunnel was executed by conducting a blast under the supervision of Chief Executive Officer of the Northern Railways S P Mahi, the official […]
JAMMU — Nearly 70 passengers stranded after suspension of traffic on the Mughal road here due to heavy snowfall in high altitude areas have been rescued and the road cleared of snow, officials said on Wednesday. However, traffic on the road connecting Poonch in Jammu with South Kashmir’s Shopian has been put on halt due […]
JAMMU — Authorities on Tuesday closed Mughal road due to snowfall along Pir ki Gali (PKG), keeping in view safety of passengers on the thoroughfare which connects Shopian with twin districts of Poonch and Rajouri. Confirming the development, Dysp Traffic Rajouri-Poonch Range Aftab Bukhari said that the road will be opened after improvement in weather. […]
POONCH — A militant hideout was busted in Sangla village of Surankote in Poonch district, officials said here on Monday. An official told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that based on a specific information police and security forces launched an operation in Sangla village during which an old hideout was found. He said that […]
POONCH — At least four vehicles parked in a parking slot of Surankote town in Poonch district were damaged due to fire that erupted from these vehicles mysteriously. Locals told the news agency Kashmir News Observer that they raiser an alarm after they saw fire erupting from these vehicles and soon fire tenders and local […]