JAMMU — Security forces on Saturday carried out a massive search operation along the International Border (IB) in Jammu and Kashmir to detect cross-border tunnels and prevent any infiltration attempts by militants during the Amarnath Yatra, officials said. The search operation was jointly carried out by Police, CRPF, and BSF in the forward villages in […]
NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear on June 27 a plea filed by a man seeking a direction to exhume the body of his son, who was dubbed a militant and killed in an encounter in November 2021, and hand it to his family for last rites. A vacation bench […]
JAMMU — The Ministry of Railways on Thursday said that the world’s highest rail bridge, which is being built over river Chenab in Jammu and Kashmir will soon bring all weather rail connectivity to Kashmir. The bridge will provide the much needed all weather connectivity between Kashmir and the rest of the country. “With 88 […]
JAMMU — Scores of Kashmiri Pandit employees on Wednesday held protests at the relief and rehabilitation commissioner’s office here demanding relocation from the Valley. The employees have been protesting for over a month after a few of their colleagues were killed by militants in Kashmir. “Don’t rehabilitate us at the cost of our blood, orphaning […]
JAMMU — Five people were trapped in flash floods in River Ans in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district on Wednesday and rescued by SDRF personnel, officials said. On receiving information that some people were trapped, a team of State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) personnel rushed to the spot and carried out the rescue operation. — […]
JAMMU — The strategic Jammu-Srinagar national highway remained closed for the second consecutive day on Wednesday due to landslides triggered by heavy rains in Ramban district, leaving hundreds of vehicles stranded, officials said. The traffic on the Mughal Road, which connects the twin districts of Poonch and Rajouri in Jammu Region with south Kashmir’s Shopian […]
JAMMU — A man was arrested and over Rs 1.53 crore stolen from a bank was recovered in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district, police said. Another accused in the case is absconding and a hunt is on to nab him, they said. “We have cracked a bank robbery case by arresting one accused and recovered […]
JAMMU — Educational institutions in Jammu and Kashmir’s Bhaderwah opened on Monday after a 10-day closure following communal tension in the town over now-suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma’s controversial remarks on Prophet Mohammad and some social media posts by local right-wing activists in her support. The day curfew in the town was lifted as the […]
JAMMU — Burglars broke into a private bank in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district and decamped with over Rs 1 crore cash, police said on Monday. The incident took place at a branch of HDFC Bank in the Hatli Morh area on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday. The burglars entered the bank from […]
JAMMU — A minor abducted girl, hailing from Madhya Pradesh, was recovered and her abductor arrested in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Saturday. The girl was rescued in a joint operation by J&K police and Madhya Pradesh police from Sangaldan area of Gool within 24 hours of the complaint, a police […]